Aug 29, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Apple approved the first update to the Facebook app on the iPhone in almost a year yesterday and it was a huge hit. The app was built by Joe Hewitt, whose previous work includes co-creation of Firefox. With 12 million downloads, Facebook's app was the 2nd most popular free app on the iPhone platform in 2008 behind Pandora. (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

louisgray.com Twitter has made yet another high profile acquisition to its executive ranks, as tomorrow, Josh Elman joins the microblogging powerhouse after nearly two years as Facebook's Platform Program Manager, gaining a role as one of Twitter's small team of product managers. The move is a big win for Twitter, who has been working to (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

TweetMeme October 2009 This Essay Is Derived From A Talk At The 2009 Startup School. I Wasn'T Sure What To Talk About At Startup School So I Decided . (Read More)

Jul 08, 2009

PR 2.0 Forrester Research released its five year forecast that estimates interactive marketing spending from 2009 – 2014. Forrester predicts that interactive marketing in the US will near $55 billion and represent 21% of all marketing spend by 2014 and will include search marketing, display advertising, email marketing, social med (Read More)

Jul 17, 2009

SheGeeks After reading Walt Mossberg’s review of Firefox 3.5 (which I have yet to install), the only question that I was left with is: what the hell is up with Firefox these days?Firefox used to be the browser to recommend! It was fast, not to mention the galore of add-ons and customizations you can download to enhance the browser. (Read More)

Jul 16, 2009

zlabs   Google Analytics is undoubtedly the most widely used web analytics application. Emerged from and based upon the analytics-package developed by Urchin Software Corporation (which was bought by Google in April 2005), the tool has become publicly available for free under the new flagship of Google Analytics. In M (Read More)

Jul 17, 2009

Submitted by Fruchter from Google Reader: Twitter is up to their old antics of adding limits again, changing the API, and not telling developers as they do so.  This morning Twitter released into production new limits around their verify_credentials() method in the API, only allowing users to verify their usernames and passwords through Twitter applications 15 time (Read More)

Jul 18, 2009

pixum's shared items in Google Reader I know I have been quiet this week, but me and the family were moving again (don’t ask). Obviously, it has been an interesting week on the internet. Twittergate got tons of coverage for better or worse, but I am not really going to talk about that.What I am going to talk about is the new Google Reader features. Google Reade (Read More)

Jul 10, 2009

Scobleizer I’m largely seen as FriendFeed’s #1 cheerleader and customer #1.But it isn’t catching on.Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate. He even wrote up his thesis: that FriendFeed should just become a great Twitter client to become relevant.I have got to be honest: it’s worse than that.Fr (Read More)

Jul 07, 2009

Conversation Agent Leo Babauta has written the perfect post for some of the thoughts I've been having about marketing, social media and the age of the customer. In it, he encourages us to be lusting for life, not stuff. I couldn't agree more. I find that the more I know myself, the more refined and specific grows my taste on wines, food and (Read More)

Jul 05, 2009

The Future Buzz A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to focus attention on a specific location.Visualize what image the word beacon conjures in your mind:  perhaps a lighthouse casting light onto an otherwise dark horizon, or a signal fire atop a hill illuminating the night sky.  In the physical world, a beacon is used (Read More)

Jul 07, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, is stirring controversy and a spicy conversation around the blogosphere. The current wave of discussion started with a critical review by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. In his review, Gladwell defends journalism and goes negative on "Free." Seth Godin, wh (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

ReadWriteWeb How do you really use Twitter? Do you retweet a lot of other peoples' content, share a lot of links and respond to direct messages? A new service called Twittruth will tell you the cold, hard facts about your own use of Twitter.Once someone has given Twittruth access to their account, you can learn a few things about how (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

TwitLinks Just when I thought I was closer to giving up on Firefox, a new application, in the form of a plugin, has become a major addiction for me (and a saviour for the spiraling browser). I’m talking, of course, about Feedly.Feedly was brought to my attention (as many other applications have) by the omnipresent Robert Scoble. He p (Read More)

Jul 07, 2009

Submitted by Stephaniefierman from Twitter: Researchers can guess your SSN using publicly available data... and the info you share on Facebook. http://bit.ly/hoVU3 #Facebook #privacy. (Read More)

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