Well, ok. I was wrong, I was wrong and the internet was right. I was an OpenSocial skeptic. I hated the way Google launched the platform with a lot of sound and fury but releasing nothing. Nothing but a bunch of partners and rhetoric. Fortunately this bag of vapor coalesced into some social networking goodness [...]

Categories: facebook · google · social networks

oh. SNAP. Just came across the reader post launching their new beta iPhone app. So. My iPhone is, more or less, a $400 Google Reader device. Sure it has some kinda other stuff, I’m not really sure what it is, but it definitely spends a lot of time on Reader. You may recall, that I [...]

Categories: google · iphone · rss

Another couple o’ awesome things happened while I wasn’t blogging - Google launched AppEngine and Amazon released the word that they had rolled out persistent storage to a select few and this would become a regular feature. These are both big noise in the world of cloud computing.
An interesting thing about these two services [...]

Categories: amazon · google · hosting · web service · yahoo

First up, just so’s you knows where I’m coming from, I love FriendFeed and I love Google Reader. One of the things that’s been frustrating me a bit with Google Reader is the inability to add a comment to the things I share - I mean, sharing something is works but it seems kinda naked [...]

Categories: friendfeed · google · rss · social networks

Imagine, just imagine, my delight when I went my Google Analytics page yesterday and discovered some buttons over the graph that said Hour, Day, Week and Month. Are you done imagining? Good. I hope it was a lot, because I was pretty psyched. That’s one of the key features that’s really been missing from GA [...]

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Huh, just came across Yahoo’s announcement on their blog that they’re forming the OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. The goal of this brand spankin’ new foundation is to “ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.”
I am of mixed minds about this. Well, [...]

Categories: google · social networks · yahoo

UPDATED: Fri Mar 28 16:34:35 EDT 2008
A bit ago Google Analytics quietly put in a new feature that you could opt into - their benchmarks. It was going to, in aggregate, show you some stats comparing your site’s performance to a jury of its peers. So, dutifully, I signed up but all I got was [...]

Categories: analytics · google

It’s no secret that Google is an advertising company. An online advertising company to be specific. Sure it has other things going, it’s hosted apps are doing pretty well and it’s struggling to find it’s hook into offline advertising - but as of now they don’t add up to a revenue stream that actually matters [...]

Categories: ads · google

Huh, well, it’s pretty cool that MySpace has opened up it’s OpenSocial action with AppGallery. I have to admit that I didn’t expect such a big player to go live with OpenSocial so soon, so that’s pretty great. I’m a skeptic and continue to be a skeptic on this, but I’d sure love to see [...]

Categories: facebook · google · social networks · yahoo

I was thinking about the big tech companies… mostly the ones I kinda watch - so Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple. Recently it seems like there’s been a lot of shifts in the power dynamics of all of these places and with that shift in power came shifts in hiring patterns - at least as [...]

Categories: apple · google · microsoft · yahoo