TechCrunch:
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you’d expect a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project – Speedi.ly. What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you th (Read More)
Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
The @YUILibrary account on Twitter is a good information source for those of us who follow the project. Many of the individual developers who write YUI code every day are now on the service as well, and I wanted to gather all those accounts together in a single post for the sake of convenience.Here’s the formal list, which (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
TweetMeme is launching Adtweets! Nick Halstead is at the Real-Time Crunchup in San Francisco today to reveal and demo our new, and exciting product! The idea behind this product was based around wanting to reward advertisers for using great, interactive and engaging adverts. The Adtweets are a way of putting pressure on ad (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
Forbes CMO Network, An Insightful Resource For Marketing LeadersI’m serving CMOs by teaming up with the Forbes as a regular contributor. My goal? To guide marketing leadership on how to leverage disruptive technologies and meet business goals. At a more detailed level, this blog will continue to aim at providing nitty-gr (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
As of today, Brizzly is open to anyone – no invitation code required any more! We’ve had a great couple of months since we first launched to a small group of friends, and we want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have tried Brizzly to this point and given us your honest feedback on the product (or simply cont (Read More)
Hacker News:
"Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it. Unfortunately, nobody agrees what open is. There are many meanings, but in general, I think "open" must be the opposite of "closed". In the world of abstract things like software, protocols and society, closed is secret, hidden, or locked. "Closed" limits our mobility, prevents (Read More)
Mashable!:
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader.Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure y (Read More)
Hot Current News Trends:
There are many individuals on the internet that are wanting to learn how to be successful when using Facebook in internet marketing. In today's fast paced world and the popularity involved in networks that are considered to be "social", internet entrepreneurs are taking hold of popular websites such as Facebook in order to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Last week, it was reported that AOL – amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO – was putting its instant messaging service unit ICQ on the block and had hired bankers Allen & Co. and Morgan Stanley to assist in the sales process. According to the reports, AOL was looking to offl (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What’s Happening?” But if you want to know what’s really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of conversations aroun (Read More)
mashable:
We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion.This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle (Read More)
Submitted by Kennykim79
from Google Reader:
Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress or Typepad's original product. ReadWriteWeb compared (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It appears that the time for freemium music services in the US has passed. Earlier this week streaming music site Imeem sold to MySpace for under $10 million dollars while laying off a large number of staff. For a company with all four major record labels signed, more than 15 million uniques a month and well over 5 million (Read More)