Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Jason Goldberg wrote a post today on Socialmedian talking about his descent into Facebook Fatigue. The "shiny new" effect of Facebook has worn off on him, and the core utility of the system is down to a few basic features of the network.
And importantly, he's cut off his third-party app ...
Posted in Announcements, Facebook | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I know a lot of App developers have designed their applications to require that users invite some number of friends to the app before all (or even any) of the features in the application will be unlocked.
This is one of those strategies that works according to the data, despite ...
Posted in Facebook | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Facebook just put in a sidebar link on your requests page that says "Ignore all requests."
Too many requests?
We’ve added a “clear-all” option for when you have lots of requests waiting on your Requests page.
It took them long enough.
Thing is, I think I'm going to keep using my Ignore All ...
Posted in Facebook | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
According to both Mashable and The Social Times today, MySpace has finally announced that they're going to be launching their own developer platform on February 5th. From Mashable:
Earlier this evening, I spoke with Amit Kapur, who the company is also announcing has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer and will ...
Posted in MySpace | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has announced a new Facebook application that allows users to share articles, It's called "Seen This?"
According to ABC news it "will allow readers to see which Journal stories are popular among that user's Facebook friends."
I've been trying to find and install it, but it does not ...
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
Monday, January 28th, 2008
In what seems to me like a move encouraged by Microsoft (and as a further strike at OpenSocial), Facebook recently restructured their platform and API to pull down some of the garden walls. As Mashable reported:
Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook is reporting today that, without much fanfare, Facebook integrated their platform ...
Posted in Facebook | No Comments »
Friday, January 25th, 2008
We haven't exactly been "tight-lipped" about this app while it was in development. If you showed up at our December Web Community Forum or ran into us at CES, chances are you heard something about InDesign Tips somewhere along the way.
What we've been whispering in the aisles is that ...
Posted in Announcements, Facebook | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
We just posted a sample Facebook Application Spec on our Parnassus Group site.
Developing an app spec can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. When we draw up Facebook Application Specs for our clients, what we deliver is a document that any competent developer ...
Posted in Facebook | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
A while ago I made a post outlining what I think is probably the best solution to the Facebook app request problem (the problem: there are WAY too many of them).
And just now I noticed that JoJotheBandit had left a comment with a link to a bookmarklet he made ...
Posted in Facebook | 18 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
MySpace has announced a new division, Slingshot Labs, that will incubate commercial Web properties that will act symbiotically with the Web giant. TechCrunch and Mashable! both observe that this is likely intended to counter the venture fund that Facebook announced a few months back.
If you were MySpace, and you were ...
Posted in MySpace | No Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Open source software is developed by communities. Geeks from around the world come together and build incredibly useful tools like WordPress and Drupal. Those technologies rely on even more open source technologies -- the components of the LAMP stack -- each with their own dedicated communities of developers.
Technology products created ...
Posted in Success Stories | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Liz Strauss is easily one of the top ten people I look up to in the social media space. On top of being a real sweetheart, she's got a wonderful instinct for community building. After our last chat, I went back to my blog and implemented some of her community ...
Posted in Blogs | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Facebook launched a feature today that allows users to create an "extended profile." So far as I can tell, this profile is a no-man's land where Facebookers can put profile boxes of applications that they are bored with but can't bear to actually remove.
The upside of this is that my ...
Posted in Facebook | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
As the host of the largest blogger parties hosted at CES for the past two years, and owner of a first edition of If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks I feel compelled to weigh in on the Gizmodo controversy.
For those few of you ...
Posted in CES | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
In the article Small Firms Tap Amazon's Juice, Web-Services Unit Gains Popularity Renting Storage, Server Capacity, reporter Mylene Mangalindan profiles Renkoo Inc. Renkoo created a program called Booze Mail for Facebook, and uses Amazon's online computer services to host it.
If you can't predict the amount of traffic, then (Amazon's) service ...
Posted in Facebook | 1 Comment »
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