Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

It may be time for Popular Mechanics to be declared dead. The 468 individuals who Digged the article should hang it up as well. There are really 468 people out there who think that How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It is actually news? The concept of a semantic web was [...]

Meet Emad Ibrahim. He's a software architect. He quit his job last month to start his own company. I found his blog via Hacker News, and started following, mainly because I am fascinated by anyone quitting a job to start a company. I personally can't imagine having the money to live on, much less the [...]