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Blogrize Review: Shared Feeds meet Social Networking
Jesse Spauling, the developer of Blogrize send me an invite to try out his new service yesterday. Blogrize is still in a private beta. Louis Gray had some invites yesterday, but they seem to be all gone at this point there are still some left, so hurry to Louis’ site and grab one.
Blogrize describes itself [...]
Bored with Facebook? You are not alone
Looks like the latest comScore numbers point to a decline in total user number for pretty much every social network, except for Facebook. However, even though Facebook keeps growing (though not rapidly), its user engagement has been down lately. Even though the number of users doubled over the last year, the people who are joining [...]
Google should be careful
Obviously I missed the whole Google Reader thing last week, but with the revelation that Google might be working on tying more ’social’ functions into GMail, questions about Google, privacy and what it means to be ‘friends’ online are surfacing once again.
According to Alex Chitu, Google is working on something that looks a lot like [...]
The Beacon at Work
(hat tip to Doc Searls for this)
While I have my issues with MoveOn taking on Facebook (I prefer them to take on more directly political issues), they did put together a nice presentation about it.
Funnily, the same thing shown in the demo happened to me when I bought movie tickets on Fandango. Didn’t [...]
Why Facebook Will Fail
Cory Doctorow, in InformationWeek, sums up the reason why Facebook will ultimately fail:
Having watched the rise and fall of SixDegrees, Friendster, and the many other proto-hominids that make up the evolutionary chain leading to Facebook, MySpace, et al, I’m inclined to think that these systems are subject to a Brook’s-law parallel: “Adding more users to [...]
You know it’s a slow news day…
You know it’s a slow news day when Facebook dropping ‘is’ from it’s status updates is a major story on Techmeme…
But I just received a Hulu invite and so I will just embed a clip of people getting punched just before eating here simply for the sake of it…
Technorati tags: facebook, hulu
So Facebook does its own ads now…
I didn’t say much about the Facebook announcement yesterday. From what I can see, it was 90% hyperbole and low on anything really interesting (“Once every hundred years media changes” blah, blah).
Nick Carr has some biting commentary on the announcement:
I like the way that Zuckerberg considers “media” and “advertising” to be synonymous. It cuts through [...]
Google, MySpace = RIP Facebook
I want to say a lot of really smart things about the MySpace-Google alliance announced today, but TechMeme is already going crazy with the news and I have a feeling I have very little new to offer.
I guess I will ponder it for a while more and see if there is anything I can add [...]
Let my people go social
Dave Winer does a great job of summarizing up the etymology of OpenSocial while taking a stab at Facebook and Google at the same time. I agree with his basic idea. There is no need for us to get locked into one or the other social network. The data trail we leave on these sites [...]
Let’s Open the Social
I thought Google was supposed to launch its big social initiative on Nov. 5th? However, the news today is that Google will announce OpenSocial on Thursday.
TechCrunch is in the know (as is the NYTimes):
The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on Thursday), goes well beyond what we’ve previously reported. It is a set [...]
Wasting a good Techmeme
Jeremiah Owyang chastises bloggers for wasting Techmeme real estate (on the same issue, also see Mathew Ingram’s post here). Here is his list of the three strategies he sees blogger play on Techmeme:
1) When I look at the expanded view of Techmeme, all I see is a regurgitation of the same bloggers repeating the same [...]
Scoble’s Stats
Scoble just posted an image of his blog’s statistic. Interesting read. Looks like he gets a lot of traction from Techmeme, as well as a lot of hits from RSS subscribers and his Twitter followers.
I commend Scoble for being so open about these numbers. Too many bloggers treat them like a holy shrine that [...]
Google Buying Jaiku Changes Everything?
According to Dave Winer it does. Seems a bit too dramatic for my tastes, but this could end up being dramatic for Twitter if Google plays this right:
Scoble called while we were at lunch, saying this isn’t about Twitter, it’s about Facebook. Probably so.
In any case, our world changed today, while we were in a [...]
