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Is There a Looming Battle Over OAuth\'s Successor?
The OAuth protocol, used on many popular Web sites and applications to pass your credentials between sites without requiring the entry of your user name and password, including Twitter, is potentially under pressure from a team of techies representin...
Is There a Looming Battle Over OAuth\'s Successor?
The OAuth protocol, used on many popular Web sites and applications to pass your credentials between sites without requiring the entry of your user name and password, including Twitter, is potentially under pressure from a team of techies representin...
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder...
Since the site's acquisition by Facebook this summer, I have not talked much about my thoughts on the future of FriendFeed, aside from the initial response saying it was not "dead". There hasn't been a major compelling event to do so, but it keeps co...
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder...
Since the site's acquisition by Facebook this summer, I have not talked much about my thoughts on the future of FriendFeed, aside from the initial response saying it was not "dead". There hasn't been a major compelling event to do so, but it keeps co...
How Facebook\'s News Feed Failed Me (And My Family)
As more and more people are turning to social networks to share their information, practically all of us are connecting to an ever-increasing number of people, and for the most part, we are updating more frequently, and sharing content from different...
How Facebook\'s News Feed Failed Me (And My Family)
As more and more people are turning to social networks to share their information, practically all of us are connecting to an ever-increasing number of people, and for the most part, we are updating more frequently, and sharing content from different...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Attacking the Web\'s Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other infor...
Attacking the Web\'s Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other infor...
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...
