Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have been mobile social aggregators. This is largely because I have my paws in far too many social applications, and any platform [...]

Someone on Hacker News was kind enough to post a link to a patent application filed under Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's name. The application, filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in February, has a fairly generic description, "Systems and methods for dynamically generating a privacy summary" with the abstract not giving a whole lot more detail:
"A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided. The present invention provides a system and method [...]

Jay Meattle's FireFox Add On Shareaholic has become one of my favorite and most often used browser tools in record time. It works in FireFox 3 . It works with Flock 2.0. It just… works. It makes sharing among all of my sites (Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, FaceBook, etc.) a breeze.
In fact it makes it so much of a breeze I actually had trouble focusing on writing my article about it. I kept trying out the different options for sharing [...]

Facebook fans look to the social networks most recent ComScore numbers as a sure sign of worldwide domination, and touted the release of Chinese and Russian translations of the site as the best thing since sliced bread. In reality, the release of Chinese and Russian versions may be too little too late for two markets that already have their own established social networks. While Web 2.0 seems almost dominated by products from and designed for English speakers, both China and [...]

As a former homeschooling parent, I read Facebook's announcement this morning and wanted to applaud. Facebook's minor verification system has always required a school affiliation for the minor, which means that homeschoolers have been unable to sign up as themselves.
Facebook doesn't detail what the verification process for homeschoolers will be, but it will be a welcomed networking opportunity for many students who may have limited opportunities in their own communities. While many cities have vibrant homeschooling communities with many activities [...]

I have been playing with the beta release of the new Adium 1.3. I fall more in love with this instant message and chat client every day. It offers more connections to more types of accounts than you'd think to find in one place, and now it has gone one step further and added FaceBook and MySpace functionality.
To be fair, I actually think Adium added MySpace IM functionality an update or two ago, but with so much to offer I [...]

With Facebook just overtaking MySpace in the social networking supremecy race, many believe things are pretty good for the two top dogs.  However, there are those that believe hard times are ahead for the big networks, as smaller and more focused networks steal the attention and affections of advertisers. 
I read a post the other day by Om Malik on the direction of advertising on social networks that really caught my attention.  As Malik sees it, there [...]

Though the 2008 presidential election has already reach historic proportions with both women and minorities being represented in the tight Democratic primary, this election has signified a shift in the way candidates go about fundraising and targeting potential constituents. Many political experts are attributing Barack Obama's achievement of the Democratic nomination to his internet campaign, and believe that Obama's skillful use of social tools, social networks and his own website could be the key to defeating John McCain in [...]

How important is experience in the Web 2.0 world?
There are those who argue that Web 2.0 is a young person's game. We see countless articles on "Entrepreneurs under 30" and "teen founders." People like Yuvi Panda and his Statbot get a ton of attention by making a splash at an age when most of us were out partying and studying for the next history quiz.
When browsing through a couple of LinkedIn profiles the other day, however, I came to a [...]