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The Blurry Picture of Open APIs, Standards, Data Ownership
Look beyond "real-time" and "social", and you'll easily find another pair of tech buzzwords that everybody wants attached to their product or service - "open" and "standards". Companies are practically falling over one another to show they have embra...
Twitter Snags Platform Manager Josh Elman From Facebook
Twitter has made yet another high profile acquisition to its executive ranks, as tomorrow, Josh Elman joins the microblogging powerhouse after nearly two years as Facebook's Platform Program Manager, gaining a role as one of Twitter's small team of p...
There Is No "Osborne Effect" In Web Services
In the world of technology, practically no story of warning is better known than that of Adam Osborne's ill-fated promise of his next generation of computer models outperforming the current offerings. The story states that the result of his premature...
Gary Burd Exits Facebook Two Months After FriendFeed Acquisition
Following the August acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, the site's loyal users are still waiting for news about whether the social network and aggregator has a future, or barring that, when elements of the site will start populating Facebook. But...
On Raising Money: Goals, Valuations and Pressure
For the most part, starting a successful business in Silicon Valley and having to raise money from venture capitalists (VCs) practically go hand in hand. Like most things here in the Valley, there are no guarantees. Raising $100 million doesn't guara...
The World Wide Web Isn\'t World Wide Neutral
Leaving aside socioeconomic issues that prevent many parts of the world from having access to computers, mobile phones, or broadband, the panacea of an always-connected populace to access with all content, regardless of location, computer or Web brow...
Little Things: Facebook Friend Notifications Transition to HTML
When Twitter and FriendFeed updated their following notifications from standard text to more colorful HTML templates earlier this year, the tech Web let out a collective gasp - heralding the small update as being a game-changer. Now, it appears that ...
TweetDeck Intros Twitter Directory, Expands Social Network Support
When TweetDeck first debuted more than fourteen months ago, it changed the game in terms of what users expected from a Twitter client. Iain Dodsworth's creation took Twitter out of the Web and onto the desktop, and introduced concepts such as Groups ...
FriendBinder's Social Aggregation Console Open for All
More than a year ago, we first talked about FriendBinder, which was one of many services offering lifestreaming capabilities, aggregating your information from different social networks, and letting you follow friends from each network in one place. ...
SocialToo Status Extends Facebook Updates to Twitter
Last week, many people were surprised by Facebook releasing a utility that let Fan Page owners update Twitter from the popular social network. But some thought Facebook did not go far enough - as individuals could not utilize this tool to broadcast t...
Sharein.com: Share to Twitter, Facebook, E-mail With Popular Items
You can hardly walk through a few pages on the Web these days without bumping into some variety of URL shortener, sharing bookmarklet, or aggregation site that tries to show the most popular data. Bit.ly has become the shortener of choice for Twitter...
FriendFeed's Not Dead. While Not Clear, Its Future Could Be Very Big.
Monday's news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed for an undisclosed sum took many people by surprise, not the least of whom were the site's most-active users, many of whom have made the social sharing and aggregation platform their central nervous...
Podcast: TheSocialGeeks: FaceFriend or FriendBook?
In the latest edition of The Social Geeks, Chris Miller, Wayne Sutton, Jeff(isageek), Sarah Perez, Corvida Raven and I talk about the big news from yesterday of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed, and what impact this could have the community and your da...
Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated.
Alright Facebook. I didn't want it to be like this, so let me tell you in a way that you'll understand. You know how you started out as a program for nerdy college boys to rate the best ladies, find which ones were available, and see if there was a w...
Steven Hodson and I Talk FacebookFeed: Our Initial Reactions
In my small little world, the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed has been the equivalent of a social news tsunami. No sooner did the news break then did I get a swarm of phone calls looking for my response - with people asking if their data w...
Status Search: Updates from Your Social Graph on Facebook, Twitter
Status Search: http://www.statussearch.net/We used to value a search engine by its sheer size. How many pages did Google or Yahoo! know about in their crawling of the Web, assuming that the engine with the largest number wins, offering a greater perc...
Facebook Parks Some Vanity URL Seekers in Purgatory
Tonight's tech event that saw Facebook unleash millions of vanity URLs to its fanatic user base has to be considered an unqualified success. It raised significant awareness for the social network, and managed to deliver hundreds of thousands of new I...
Podcast: TheSocialGeeks: I Want the Post, Not the Pre
Thanks to bumps in my schedule, including work, and of course, the twins, combined with the complexities of trying to get seven people in three time zones to get synched up, it has been some time since we got to participate in TheSocialGeeks podcast,...
Facebook Connect on My iPhone Games Is a Huge Win
When I attended the SXSW conference this March, I was able to see the announcement, by Dave Morin, the company's senior platform manager, that Facebook Connect would be integrated with iPhone applications, essentially adding the glue between the worl...
Omnipresent Omniture Makes Facebook Apps Omnipotent
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)The Facebook Platform just got a whole lot more interesting today as the all-powerful Analytics company, Omniture, Inc. released a new suite of analytics libraries for developers writing for the Fac...
SlideShow: How To Optimize Your Social Data Flow for All Networks
Following on to this weekend's post on knowing and mastering your social media data flow, I updated the information and have created a presentation for download, for easier portability.How To Optimize Your Social Media Data Flow for All NetworksView ...
Know and Master Your Social Media Data Flow
This Is How My Social Media Data Flows. I'll Explain.If you're anything like me, you are constantly creating social data. From your blog posts and your tweets, your photos and videos, bookmarks and status updates, you are creating new information, bi...
Don't Tempt the Online Mob. They Come Bearing Pitchforks.
There's no need for me to recap Twitter's two-day flub as you've already seen it 40 different places. What's most interesting to me about the entire situation is the rapidity of how the user community turned on the service and its founders in respons...
10 Rules for Today's Consumers In the New World of Real-Time
The world of communication and product delivery is changing as the Web evolves and new services are introduced, enabling us to gain faster access to information, download richer media more quickly, and rapidly voice our opinions and feedback near and...
Social Media Outposts: Maintenance
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is a continuation of last week's post regarding creating social media outposts. The first part was creating outposts or as I refer to them, tollbooths. The core objective is for organic...
Twitter Launches Enhanced New Follower E-mails
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed)It would appear that Twitter has launched a brand new format for their new follower notification E-mails they send out to users opting to be alerted to new followers. The e-mails are now in a pretti...
Welcome To The Reputation Economy
By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)Everyone knows a good reputation is a valuable thing. With all of the activity on social media Web sites, your reputation can now come from a number of sources. You could be a well known blogger or ent...
Creating Social Media Outposts
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Roll-Your-Own Social Media Campaign: OutpostsI recently started a new job at a software company. One of my responsiblites is creating and launching an effective organic SEO & social medi...
