Archive for March, 2008

I didn't want to rehash SXSW. But after reading both Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington's take on it, I find myself in strange company, because I agree with both of them, and this apparently puts me in the minority. Two years ago, I would have sold my soul to attend SXSW. The past two years, [...]

What do you get when you combine the glut of personal information online, games and other “fun” features, and the serious side of business networking? Fuego Nation, apparently. According to the statement that accompanied today's opening of the new site, it tried to take a useful social business networking site like Linked In and junk [...]

I want to love Socialthing. Really, truly I do. I am not the world's biggest FriendFeed fan even though it seems everyone has already sworn allegiance to it judging by the number of times I see it added on my Facebook news feed. But FriendFeed is ugly. And I'm tired of having to find and [...]

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Appistry Vice President of Product Management & Marketing Sam Charington about their launch today of a new product, Appistry EAF Community Edition, a new licensing model (Open Distribution licensing model), and a new developer portal called Peer2Peer. Appistry had a soft launch in December 2007 prior [...]

MySpace has been rumored to be trying to break into music distribution for some time now, but seems to have accelerated negotiations with the four major labels recently. They could run into a major snag from Universal's court, however. There is a pending lawsuit still on the books that MySpace has yet to resolve with [...]

On 3 March, the Armenian government declared a 20-day state of emergency after confrontations between the former president and security due to tensions after the contested elections that took place on 19 February. As part of the state of emergency, the government declared that the only news that can be published by the media outlets [...]

I have a constant flow of apps in my inbox and in Firefox tabs, waiting to see if they are worth a review. Most of the time, when an app is unusable or has major bugs, I just delete it and move on. But I had two apps in a row last week that this [...]

A Web 2.0 community launched last month, slipping right under my radar until I spotted it on MoMB and it made me look twice. eBay apparently developed a conscience when I wasn't looking and has joined forced with World of Good, Inc. to create a new community site centralized around commerce. The WorldofGood.com mission statement [...]

If you thought FaceBook's Beacon and web sites like Plaxo's life streams and content aggregators were intrusive, wait until you see the next phase of Web 2.0 social networking: Genebase. The premise behind GeneBase is DNA based social interaction. I can only hope that this a social network that is doomed to fail. Why would [...]