Social Networking
« Previous EntriesMashable Coming to Seattle
Monday, July 7th, 2008The Mashable crew is in town this weekend for a networking event — SummerMash Seattle.
When: July 12th, Saturday, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Where: Showbox SoDo, 1700 1st Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134
What else?:DJ El Toro, Light Appetizers, Drink Tickets, Door Prizes and more…
RSVP?: Tickets will be released through Eventbrite, 21+ Only
Normally, I would say hope […]
FriendRank
Monday, June 23rd, 2008FriendRank is certainly an interesting concept, but I’m not sold. At least for me, seeing an ad with my friend’s face on it would NOT make me more likely to click on the ad.
Facebook Gathering Feedback on their Ads
Thursday, June 5th, 2008I think this is smart move by Facebook.
fbOpen
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008I don’t know the specifics of the fbOpen project, but the concept is very cool with lots of potential.
Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect
Saturday, May 10th, 2008MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
Announcing Facebook Connect
Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
I won’t pretend to know too much about these programs, but I will say this — the business development divisions of Google, Myspace, and Facebook are going to be working overtime recruiting partners […]
10 Tips for Building Online Communities
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I stumbled upon this tonight — Nudge, Don’t Push- 10 Tips for Building Online Communities (from SmallBoxConsulting).
The Reality of Facebook
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008I couldn’t resist sharing this video that my friend sent me earlier today.
People You May Know on Facebook
Monday, March 31st, 2008I’m not sure when it went live since I’ve been gone awhile, but I absolutely love facebook’s “People you may know” suggestions that can now be seen on the right side of your Facebook profile. I just discovered it and I’ve found many of the recommendations are pretty good — it popped up quite […]
The Best Incentive I’ve Seen to Update Your Profile Picture
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008A picture you don’t like — I got a good chuckle from this post by Fred.
I totally agree with him — if I saw this picture on my profile, I would change it as quick as I could. It may be a sleezy incentive, but it’s probably a smart way to increase the number of […]
MyBlogLog Ventures into “Lifestreaming”
Friday, February 29th, 2008Yup, I’m still a fan.
Yes, For the Record, I Love MyBlogLog
Friday, February 15th, 2008And I’m excited to hear the news they have a new look to their recent readers widget.
[via Agent Genius]
Facebook in Spanish? Check
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Mashable just reported that Facebook is now available in Spanish. That’s awesome news, both for Facebook expansion and for me. I took two years of Spanish in high school, but 2 years of language classes almost 10 years ago isn’t sufficient to be fluent — far from it. Where am I going with this? I […]
Suggested Friends?
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Brilliant.
Myspace is Finally Making a Stride to Catch up With Facebook
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Myspace’s new open “platform” (announced in October) that will allow developers to integrate their applications into Myspace is set to go live February 5th, according to TechCrunch. I haven’t logged into myspace in over a week, whereas I’m on Facebook every day — and nothing about an open platform similar to Facebook’s is going to […]
A MyBlogLog API?? This Could Be Cool
Monday, January 21st, 2008It’s been quite some time since I’ve mentioned MyBlogLog on my blog, but they are still one of my favorite web 2.0 companies that I use daily as a blogger to track where my traffic is coming from. And the latest news from them? An API!!
The API, currently in private beta, is said to include:
User […]
Data on the Web
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Scott Karp penned up a great article everyone interested in internet technology should read — Data And The Future Of The Web.
He finished with this -
The future of the web will be determined by companies that can overcome people challenges — to bring EVERYONE’S data online, and make it useful. And it won’t be about […]
Facebook-Bebo & One-Upping Open Social - But I Still Have One Question
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007I’m not going to analyze the HUGE news on Techmeme, but there’s still one issue I don’t understand — sure, apps built for Facebook can now be integrated into Bebo. BUT, can the iLike app on FB communicate with the iLikfe app on Bebo? If I have both a Bebo & a FB profile, and […]
Small Feature Request for Facebook - Ability to Mark Messages as “For Follow Up”
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I know Facebook isn’t really going after Microsoft Outlook, but the fact of the matter is that the Facebook platform replaces almost all personal e-mail for Genderations X & Y. Just as with e-mail, some Facebook messages are just FYI’s and some need follow-ups. However, Facebook doesn’t distinguish between the two. My suggestion to FB […]
What Does OpenSocial Mean to Facebook?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Big news — Facebook has a new & VERY formidible competitor — “OpenSocial”. The New York Times is reporting that Google and a slew of partners are going to launch OpenSocial on Thursday. What is OpenSocial? TechCrunch says it is
a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers […]
Holy Smokes - Facebook is Valued at $15 Billion
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Microsoft is investing $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6% stake in the company. WOW.
There have already been dozens of people who have blogged about this, so I’m not going to bother to write anything more. But this is HUGE news — check out Techmeme for further reading.