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“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ” - Kenneth L. Pike

Facebook Mobile - did you know?

A lesser known feature of Facebook is Facebook Mobile. I just set up a text message feature that allows me to get text whenever a select group of friends updates their status. This feature has been around for awhile, but I forgot about it since I didn’t have an unlimited text plan at the time it was launched. Now that  I have an iPhone and unlimited text, I have the ability to stay connected with my friends 24/7. A lot of other sites have this ability; some are even built on it. But Facebook has one huge advantage over these other sites, which is the power of your social graph. I can now get important updates (and not so important ones) from my family and real friends as they are posted.

The goal is to get my family and friends to reciprocate and add me to their status update notifier. Such connectivity would completely transform the way we communicate and would result in more familiarity with each of our day to day lives.  Since most of my family is living in Texas, it would be as close to home as I can get…

Facebook Mobile Settings

Facebook Mobile Settings

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Aviary.com - The Future of the Web?

Aviary.com is a set of image editing tools created in Flash. Launched to the public yesterday and hailed as "the future of SaaS."  I tried pulling up Phoenix, their Photoshop-like tool yesterday but was denied due to high traffic. What's interesting is the business model. Out of the gate Aviary is ...

Facebook Announces 25 fbFund Winners!

Today Facebook announced the 25 fbFund winning companies. The fbFund is a $10M seed fund created by Facebook, Accel Partners, and Founders Fund to help jump start talented developers and entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses on the Facebook platform. Each of the following companies received a $25,000 for their first round ...
October 13th 2008
Tags: Uncategorized

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ROOV launches Facebook Connect

ROOV, the Christian social network has launched Facebook Connect! From the ROOV e-Newsletter:We told you it was coming and now it’s here! ROOV.com has officially launched its integration with Facebook.com. Here’s what that means… You ...
October 7th 2008
Tags: Advertising, Media, Music, myspace

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MySpace Music Streamed +1 Billion Songs in a Few Days?

There is a lot of talk on the internet about MySpace streaming over a billion songs in the first few days of its' service launch. But what MySpace is not telling you is that MySpace Music is nothing more than a new flash player on the already existing band profiles ...
October 1st 2008
Tags: Mobile

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XOHM WiMAX from Sprint is in Baltimore and it’s FAST!

Engadget sent a couple reporters to Baltimore to test our Sprint's new XOHM WiMAX wireless internet. They were able to get 3.05Mbps down and 2.4Mbps up AND connectivity in their car!Could this be the turning point for the battered and bruised Sprint? At the time of this posting their stock ...

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