Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

Facebook fatigue. Have you heard the phrase? Are you suffering from it? Where once I logged into Facebook first thing every morning to check status updates and new links from tech-minded friends, I can't tell you the last time I logged in. And I no longer seem to get friend requests, although I regularly find adds on FriendFeed and LinkedIn.
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of the Facebook Platform, and it was marked with the official announcement that [...]

In the ongoing Internet war, we have Gen X/Web 1.0 refugees on one side, and Gen Y/Web 2.0 upstarts on the other. No matter where I turn, there is always some new debate about which one has done more; which one is a true bubble. The typical Web 2.0 defense goes something like this:
The big difference "this time around" is that there is some really exciting technology coming out of the web interactivity boom, and regardless of the fate of [...]

Let me begin by saying I am all for the advancement of social networking, web 2.0, and all the rest. In fact, I fervently support such advances that I find myself writing about everything and everything to do with said topics on a frequent basis. But I think I missed or misunderstood something: shouldn't social media platforms inherently be open to as many users as possible, not limited by issues like users' choices in operating systems?
On this lovely Sunday afternoon, [...]

Yahoo is turning out to be the Hillary Clinton of the web these days: running a campaign to save itself that is on its last legs and refusing to stand down and let the more stable web candidates win. It doesn't help matters that it is being pursued in the most schizophrenic manner possible by Microsoft, or that its own shareholders have long since had it with the shenanigans on both sides.
It is hard not to grow increasingly bored [...]

Everyone is all excited this week about “Data Availability.” Well, everyone except for some of the Data Portability folks, that is. MySpace and Twitter are hooking up, while Facebook and Digg are hooking up, and people are throwing confetti in the streets.
Or at least it seems that way.
I know that I'm not the only person who doesn't really WANT these little mash-ups, and the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized I don't want a social graph. And [...]

Read any advice about bootstrapping your start-up company and odds are you'll find a tip about using your loyal user base to contribute services to your company. It sounds like a great idea in theory: you have all these people who love what you are doing and want to help. Your users may be willing to code for you or design for you or help localize your app by translating all your pages into languages they speak. The question left [...]

After talking with Angela LoSasso at Web 2.0 Expo, I started thinking about some of the "dinosaur" companies: enterprise and Web 1.0 companies that are trying to find their way in the Web 2.0 space. I had just seen a press release announcing the appointment of a "Chief Blogger" at Eastman Kodak Company. Like most born-and-bred Rochesterians, I've lived in the shadow of Kodak my whole life (literally: the house I grew up in was on the same street as [...]

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, MySpace apps, and Hi5 apps. The real question, however, is what will happen to these companies and this ecosystem if one of the foundation companies [...]

Just about everyone has participated in some type of casual gaming by now, whether it's Scrabulous on Facebook, Bejeweled on PopCap, or you are a card-carrying member of Club Pogo. But Rezilio has come up with a way of making casual gaming less casual by creating Game for Charity.
With Game for Charity, Rezilio leverages two of the fastest growing online technologies: online charity donations and casual gaming. Charities can use Rezliio's technology to create an online tournament which users can [...]