If You Wonder What Happens When You Get Bought Out Check Out FriendFeed’ s Traffic
I am not saying that this happens to everyone or that everyone is ticked that Facebook bought out FriendFeed. But obviously I have been disappointed by FriendFeed being bought out by Facebook. While I have a Facebook page, and am seeing FriendFeed user’s crossing over from FF to Facebook (thanks!), it is interesting what has [...]
Twitter Should Stop Doing A Microsoft
In my premature obituary of Tr.im, I took a position where I had suggested that Twitter should buy bit.ly to improve the trust people keep on URL-shortening services. Bit.ly is another URL shortening service which has 3 million unique monthly visitors and with a $2 M Series A funding. Recently, Twitter ditched tinyURL.com and selected [...]
Facefeed: No Surprises Here
Techmeme is full of news about Facebook acquiring Friendfeed. The Friendfeed team will join Facebook’s engineering team but they will have the Friendfeed website going for a while. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team. As usual, we [...]
Google Latitude For iPhone- Gimme More
After a long wait, Google today announced the release of Google Latitude for iPhone. Well, it is not a native iPhone app but a web app. It runs on the Safari browser and takes advantage of the location support available on the browser since iPhone 3.0. It can be accessed from google.com/latitude. Some of the [...]
IBM Adds Social Component With LotusLive Connections
I have been hearing quite a bit of buzz on the collaboration front this week. Zoho (disclaimer: Zoho is the sole sponsor of this blog but this is my independent opinion) announced Zoho Office for Sharepoint and Mindtouch is trying to shake the world by breaking the data silos inside the intranet with their Mindtouch [...]
Twitter Offers Verified Accounts In An Old Fashioned Way
Twitter suddenly decided to offer verified account in order to avoid impersonations and the associated problems. However, Twitter is only offering these accounts to select few like celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials, etc.. In short, it is not for ordinary joes, at least for the time being. Twitter gives the following reason for this. [...]
Can Soc-Nets Live On Public Clouds?
Derrick Harris, writing on GigaOm Pro (Subscription Required), puts forward an argument claiming that Social Networks like Facebook or Twitter cannot live on the public clouds. The real irony here is that, while social networks are cutting-edge web-based services, there is little symbiosis with the other cutting-edge web-based paradigm getting lots of attention lately: cloud [...]
Glue – Get Sticky Now
What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1 a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (as hides or bones) b: a solution of [...]
