UPDATED: Tue Apr 1 14:27:25 EDT 2008
I know, I know, too much FriendFeed and not enough iPhone. ;) Just this one more and I’ll stop for awhile. You know, when you’ve got a little obsession you just gotta go with it for awhile, work through the demons.
A lot of these thoughts were swirling around [...]

Categories: social networks · web2.0

I had a busy weekend and spent a lot of my time not at home… much FriendFeed’ing on the iPhone ensues. To that end, inspired by Steven Hodson’s list I thought I’d enumerate them. While FriendFeed’s interface is simple enough that it looks decent out the gate on the iPhone, I think a more focus [...]

Categories: iphone · social networks

When I first starting reading and looking into FriendFeed I was pretty skeptical, not really of the service, but that I would be interested in it. Half of my problem with it was that I was trying to cram it into the same sort of category as Google Reader - a research and efficiency tool, [...]

Categories: social networks · web2.0

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

I’ve been using Google Reader religiously for awhile now. It is, as far as I’m concerned, one of the most efficient ways to go through a whole world of stuff that the matrix is constantly trying to beam into your brain. But more than that, as I mentioned in that other piece, it’s a great [...]

Categories: social networks

Well, there was no shortage of chatter about FriendFeed this weekend. So I signed up for it and gave it a teeny little spin. What it is is a social networking aggregator - so you login and you provide it all your information - your facebook, myspace, flicker, delicious (dropped the dots!), amazon wishlist, or [...]

Categories: community · review · social networks · web2.0

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 reading that Register article on the downward trend of the big social networks. It uses some comscore numbers that show that time spent on the networks (MySpace, Bebo & co.) is down. Leaving aside that time spent on site is pretty inaccurate, it may be a reasonable apples to apples comparison. I would [...]

Categories: social networks

Huh. Just read about Mahalo’s new social network aggregation feature. As a concept I think this aggregation is an interesting idea, although, executions have thus far been pretty not great. I suspect nothing overly worthwhile will happen till data portability hits in one form or another…
Anyhow, I stomped over to Mahalo and registered me a [...]

Categories: search · social networks · wiki

Huh. Just read this little bit on Facebook’s new Javascript client library. I’m not a Facebook developer, yet, but this seems like it could be quite interesting.
As I see it, the main difference would be that since this is all client side if one is already logged into Facebook then the client library could simply [...]

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