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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 ...

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 ...

Myspace Music - First Thoughts

I have my normal routine of finding a playlist, or stream to listen to for the day, and last night Myspace Music launched so I thought I would give it a try. I opened music.myspace.com, and decided to give it a try...If you don't know anything about Myspace Music, then ...

The Missing Link for Digg

Currently, Digg is the #2 news site on the internet behind cnn.com. But Digg is different than other major online news sites, Digg is a social news site and should be evaluated not just as a news outlet, but also for its potential as a major social network. According to compete.com, ...

Twitter: Should you pay for it?

There's a lot of people who are unhappy about the current situation at Twitter. Twitter has said that the reason for their downtime is that their super users with thousands of followers are the ones to blame because of the load they cause of Twitter servers every time they post. So ...

Twitter Killer?

It seems since Twitter architect Blaine Cook left the micro-blogging site has been going down nearly everyday for hours at a time.  With the emergence of FriendFeed, and growth of Pownce, can Twitter stay at the top of the micro-blogging sites? It seems it's only a matter of time now before ...

Baskin-Robbins harness Facebook’s Events application for campaign

Ice cream giant Baskin-Robins created a Facebook event to help promote their 31 cent scoop night. The lucky night is on April 30th, mark those hCal enabled calendars. I think what is really interesting here is that Baskin-Robbins is utilizing the already existing Facebook functionality to promote their campaign. They didn't ...

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February 27th 2010
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Are You Listening?

[caption id="attachment_99" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Credit: Flickr user 'Tom Lin'"][/caption]Next time you are talking to someone, take notice to how long they wait before answering you. If the person across from you answers immediately, chances are they were putting together their response while you were still talking -- hence, they were ...

Building a Twitter Bot

Meet Jason Thorton. To the people who know Jason, he is a successful entrepreneur in San Francisco who tweets 4-5 times a day. But Jason has a secret, he's not really a human, he's the product of my simple algorithm in PHP. Jason tweets A LOT about the word "love" - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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