Submitted by Open Ajax:
Do you work for SocialMediaN? Why are you creating all the new networks? And I am pretty sure your picture is not you. (Read More)
Victor Caballero
After 14 years of running and attending conferences in the technology space, I’ve learned about 20 things that I think are essential to either making–or breaking–an event. I’ve been keeping track of these in the back of my head, but have never really taken the time to put them into an essay… until now. Two questions (and I (Read More)
Submitted by Socialnews9:
Mark Zuckerberg today officially rolled out Facebook Connect, a way that apps not on the Facebook Platform can leverage the Facebook social network. It's an extremely powerful idea, and the demos we saw at the F8 conference were much more impressive than the MySpace Data Availability project that rolled out yesterday.Facebo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search's content and functionality into search engines on their own sites. The company that sees just over 20% of the searches performed each day believes that the new program, called BOSS ( (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs:
Twitter largely reminds me of when people started to register their own names for domains, turning the Internet into a giant customized license plate. It's somewhere between self-expression and mental onanism.I use it to track several news sites but following other "people" often makes me feel weird. Most of the content see (Read More)
: In my opinion, marketing belongs on twitter as much as it used to belong on Usenet. That is, not at all. Twitter is public space, but not in the same way that myspace.com or facebook are. Twitter is more like my living room than either of those two environments. I see Twitter as like a large house party, and I certainly wouldn't invite a marketer to a house party (buzz kill!)
: when I first started thats what I thought it would be like. In Truth all dayand all night, bloggers try to get you to their blog to read a story, or an invite to beta test a new service. It's all marketing, but, because I love tech, I don't mind. i want to check some of these new sites or articles out.I understand where your coming from though. If it only occurred every once in a while then it would be distributive, and annoying to the community. Unfortuatly, it happens all the time.Some of twitter's most vocal advocates are the biggest abusers of this system. Therefore it is what it is. BTW, I also wouldn't invite a stranger to my house party!
Submitted by Infodiva:
On his Blogger.com profile page, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes himself as "a farm boy from Nebraska, who's been very lucky in business and life". That luck seemed to be running out in recent months, when Twitter - the microblogging and messaging service created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Williams himself - s (Read More)