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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

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" - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google’s new G1 has no 3.5mm headphone jack

I was REALLY close to buying one of the new Google G1 phones.  I've read about 5 reviews, and watched a few videos, and had just about made up my mind to go ahead and buy one next month when I saw this article from Engadget. HTC (the manufacturer of the ...

Jay Adelson: Facebook Connect is the “future of Digg”

TechCrunch is reporting that during a speech at the Web 2.0 Expo last week, Digg CEO Jay Adelson touched on how Facebook Connect could help the social news site take "the next step of collaborative filtering" and how it is tied to the "future of Digg." This is great news for ...

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 ...

Facebook Connect vs. Google Connect

The following is a comment I posted on TechCrunch, on Michael Arrington's post: Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang Michael said that data portability should not be left in the hands of the big companies... I think it can be left in a big companies hands as long as the big ...

When I discovered Social Networks

Around 5 years ago I made a post on my then LiveJournal account about a new website called: Friendster.com. Enjoy: Just found out about a cool new website... It's called Friendster.com -- Its really awesome.. because what happens is, when you join you need to specify me as your friend... then you ...

Breaking: Facebook to roll out new Instant Messaging functionality

TechCrunch just announced that Facebook will be releasing instant messaging functionality. The instant messaging will be on the Jabber open source platform, thus allowing services such as Gtalk, Adium (Apple), and Trillian (Windows) to be compatible. As soon as there are screenshots available I will post them. This is huge news, ...

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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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