Submitted by Jasongoldberg :
Looks like we're about 7 days from being ready for public beta on socialmedian. 4200 alpha users have given us a ton of great feedback and have helped us ship more than 400 updates the past 4 months. Nervous and busy getting ready for the move from private to public. Or, should we wait for TC50?. (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)
TechCrunch :
The TechCrunch team is on site at the Facebook Developer conference, and we’ll be live blogging the news. Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote starts at 1:30 pm PST.Live Coverage1:59 PM: He says the apps that leverage the news feed the best will be the ones that succeed.1:58 PM: “The most important part of the profil (Read More)
1 Comment . Last comment by Epilkington: Great Apps can integrate with users just like native Facebook apps, an (Read More)
Mashable! :
Google has just launched Knol to the public, dubbed by many as the search giant’s Wikipedia killer. My first reaction: not so fast. While Knol offers a way for anyone to create content about any subject, there are a few big differences.First and foremost, each “Knol” is created by a single author, who can then choose to e (Read More)
2 Comments . Last comment by Thomaspower: Interesting to see how this gets on against Wikipedia Google continues (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb :
On July 15th, the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) held their inaugural conference in New York City. The group, whose founders include IBM, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and a dozen other companies and academic institutions, is on a mission to find solutions to today's information overload problems. In attendance at t (Read More)
louisgray.com :
Guest post by Mark Dykeman of Broadcasting Brain (FriendFeed/Twitter)Let’s take a moment to pause from our normal pontifications about A-Lists, aggregators, egoism, elitism, monetization, commercialization, capitalization, and such and talk about something bigger. This is something that would ultimately benefit the overall (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb :
According to the latest data from Hitwise, Facebook, which is kicking off its developer conference today, grew 40% over the last year, while its biggest competitor, MySpace, saw a 6% drop in visits since June 2007. The numbers for average time spent on these two sites almost directly mirror the numbers for visits, with MySp (Read More)
Mashable! :
Facebook made several important announcements to kickoff its F8 developer conference this afternoon: the launch of Facebook Connect, the Great Apps program for preferred applications, and the ability for developers to translate their applications into different languages. However, a few things that developers and onlookers (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)
TechCrunch :
Slide was not too happy when Facebook temporarily pulled one of its most popular applications, Top Friends, from the social networking site for exposing too much profile information to people who were not friends. Ahead of today’s F8 developer conference, I asked Slide CEO Max Levchin what Facebook could do to make d (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva :
Congrats to Twitter for having a brand spanking new app to add to its brood. This latest Twitter creation is called TwitterBash and like its fellow Twitter brethren, it aims to make Twitter as good as it can be. How exactly? TwitterBash takes the Digg phenomena and makes it its own. The concept is simple. People are more ap (Read More)
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)
ReadWriteWeb :
Google just opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public after announcing a private beta of the service last December. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol puts a stronger emphasis on authorship and even encourages users to start different 'knols' for the same subject. Google is also serving up AdSense advertising on the site, (Read More)
A VC :
My partner Brad starts his post on our newest investment, Meetup, with a rumination on what's causing the introspection that we in web investing land are going through. And he ends his thoughts on that topic with the following:Two things will need to happen if the recent pace of innovation on the web is going to be sustaine (Read More)
Submitted by Porch Light Scott :
These are definitely great tools. The Speed Dial add-on is extremely valuable for organizing and managing social media sites. (Read More)