Google Operating System
Sometimes error messages can reveal more than they were supposed to. Rahul Bansal writes about a simple trick that helps you find out if one of your Google Talk contacts is offline or uses the invisible mode. The trick takes advantage of Google's off the record feature which lets you chat with your contacts without saving t (Read More)
Online Media Cultist
Duncan Riley makes interesting points over at The Inquisitr, pointing out that blogging 2.0 is “the blogosphere’s first counterculture movement.” To back up a few steps though, the definition of blogging 2.0 is still evolving, and like the strange and nebulous term web 2.0 can and likely will mean differen (Read More)
Techmeme
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Who Is Johng77536 And How Did He Game Twitter? — One of the reasons Twitter is such a useful platform for publishing is that it is largely spam free - you only received messages from people you choose to follow. So even though a large number of spammy accounts have appeared on the ser (Read More)
TechCrunch
Tuesday this week we had the Amsterdam TechCrunch meetup, the last city in the Summer TechCrunch Euro Tour before I kick off again in September. In just over a month and a half I tracked down startups in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Rome, Dublin, Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Zurich and now Amsterdam, not including the TechCrunch (Read More)
Submitted by Tyler Wall:
If you’re a website or software developer, then surely you’ve heard of usability testing before. To many web developers, “usability testing” is one of those buzz words that clients and developers love to use, and something that is very rarely actually done.The reason? Usability testing requires you setup a lab of computers (Read More)
TechCrunch
One of the reasons Twitter is such a useful platform for publishing is that it is largely spam free - you only received messages from people you choose to follow. So even though a large number of spammy accounts have appeared on the service, the only real damage they do is when they trick people into following them (a lot o (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs:
So, based on the assumption that we have a long way to go, here are 5 predictions on the future of social media, ranked from shortest time horizon to longest. (Read More)
: I look for CONSUMER reviews when I am buying online (which I prefer to do than go to the mall, generally speaking). I tend to head to the sites that offer that. Mind you I won't necessarily buy the product from that site. I also look for value for money, once I've decided the product I want.
I do work for a client that realizes that content is king. They produce much of their own content, and they then spread that around their network of sites.
I've never found any attraction in virtual worlds, such as Second Life, and now, Lively. Then again, I'm not a gamer. Perhaps if I was I would find them more fun. Myself, I'd rather have words and images, and perhaps audio and video where required. I don't need to be playing around with an avatar. It doesn't help in any way.
Portable networks? That's why I like Twitter so much. I can start a conversation on my desktop PC, and go seamlessly to SMS.
This guy complains about the noise from FriendFeed. Well, then, you're not using it correctly. Filter the noise by removing those creating it in your feed, that's quite simple
ReadWriteWeb
With the news coming out of F8 this week, it was hard to not get caught up in the enthusiasm for Facebook Connect, the new authentication methodology which will allow you to login to third-party web sites using your Facebook ID and port your friend graph from Facebook with you. On the one hand, you have to admit this is rev (Read More)
: I disagree that this obsoletes brand sponsored social communities. Our Brand Nets software powers evangelist communities for companies like Houlihans. The promise of Facebook connect in this context is to remove friction between FB these sites and enable using pubic social nets as recruiting and social media distribution points for brand sites. Looking forward to testing it and see if it lives up to the hype.