Accidentally, I have created a series of posts based on the pending content war article I had written. So I have already posted my review of personalized homepage services, and a short post regarding a review of the lifestreaming services. Now that Alltop has been launched I can complete the series with a comparison of… Read More Alltop is the top: A News Aggregator Review
I was planning on writing this spectacular review on social aggregation and lifestreaming services. Instead, I found this article today that does a better job than I would have done. The reason for the interest is because there is a lot of funding being thrown around, specifically at FriendFeed and others. As the review states,… Read More Are You Lifestreaming Yet?
In technology, boring is normally necessary. Sexy technology is what everyone wants to talk about and work on. In the corporate world, there is a lot of boring going on. Administrative applications are not complicated, and typically use standard methods and proven technologies. Given that, boring probably makes the world go round. This is why… Read More Data portability may be boring, but boring is necessary
Now that there are thousands of blogs and feed readers and portal pages, web 2.0 has been trying to make all of that better. There is a huge push towards a single source for all of internet needs. In this article, I am going to ignore the simple tools like email and RSS readers because… Read More Personalization, Aggregation or Socialization – the pending content war
Over the past few days there have been some articles that piqued my interest. Both are regarding the “wisdom of crowds“, but are looking at different angles. First, there is Greg Linden (who has been on a roll lately) who talks about the madness of a growing crowd. In his post, he references a few… Read More Wisdom or Madness in the Crowd?
Social media acquisitions have been a hot topic lately. I recently commented on the ridiculous $200 million price for Plaxo. Yesterday, various rumors circulated regarding the $1 billion acquisition of Bebo. So, in order to remain fair, I decided to do a value comparison again, this time including Bebo. First, let’s review the prices we… Read More Is Bebo Worth $1 Billion? (and a Plaxo Correction)
Contrary to recent opinion, social networking is still growing by leaps and bounds. However, the news that people are focusing on is the “high profile” exodus of Bill Gates from Facebook, or the lack of monetization for the sites. The Bill Gates profile can be ignored as it is not a sign of things to… Read More Rumors of Social Networking’s Death are Highly Exaggerated
The news yesterday evening had a merger/acquisition rumor of Google paying $200 million for Plaxo. Plaxo has been in the news a lot with possible acquisitions or even people just commenting that they hired an investment firm to manage a possible purchase. The issue that I see in the Tech Crunch article is that Plaxo’s… Read More Plaxo price of $200 million is absurd!
So I saw announcements for the release of the Social Graph API from Google and figured this was one of the first Open Social releases. Well, I was wrong about the Open Social part. The API uses the XFN and FOAF specifications to determine your social graph. Your social graph for a particular site (maybe… Read More Why the Social Graph API is not ready for prime time
The past few days have been fairly busy in the social media space again. So I figured I should throw my opinion in the ring just like everyone else. Last week, Facebook had some really interesting news when they announced the ability to put Facebook applications on any website. This allows them to expand their… Read More Social Media and Data Portability Inch Ever Closer
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