This is a guest post from Josh Mackey. Josh Mackey is the GM Product at PeekYou. What would happen if at a school’s talent show some parents stood up and started heckling the child playing the piano or dancing in front of them? “You’re awful!” or “You call yourself a dancer?” For one thing, it… Read More Is The Username Dying?
There has been a ton of conversation about social graphs, location and photo sharing lately. Most of this conversation has arisen due to the release of the photo-sharing application Color. The photo-sharing part of the discussion is only a gateway to the larger discussion of social graphs. I have been looking at the basic location-based… Read More Implicit Social Graphs Rise From Interest Not Location
When I first read the announcement about the API changes and recommendations I was shocked and angry. Like many developers, I had yelled when they stopped whitelisting applications, and I thought this new announcement was going too far. Thankfully, my family obligations did not allow me to write this post immediately following the announcement. So,… Read More Twitter Finally Provides The Ecosystem With Good Direction
This is a guest post from Gwen Davis. Gwen Davis is the webmaster of Hosting Observer. Facebook has achieved supremacy in the social media world with its more than 600 million users worldwide. Through out all the UI changes, Facebook has never lost its core principles, among them being accessibility and unlimited hosting for all… Read More Developer Driven Culture
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about the future of our information consumption. Are we going to be using search in a different way or using niche search engines? Are we going to get recommendations from from our social network? Will the results be personalized based on our behaviors, or even just a… Read More Search, Personalization And Recommendation
For quite some time, Facebook has had a comments plugin for blogs, but it was not used very much. Today, they announced a new version of the comment system that is already being adopted by some large sites. Obviously, this has lots of the big tech blogs talking. ReadWriteWeb specifically remarked about the missing “bells… Read More Facebook Wants All Of The Conversation
I tend to talk about failure a bit on this blog. Failure is a good topic for discussion, whether it is project failure or failures by people. Why is it such a good topic to talk about? Because people fail every day and so do companies. However, in our world, people like to talk about… Read More Failures Are Really Mini Successes
So, it looks like real-time search has died. The two leaders in this space, OneRiot and Collecta, have decided to focus on other things. OneRiot announced their change in focus last fall as they launched their advertising network. Now we hear that Collecta is closing their search as they change their focus as well. In… Read More Real-Time Search Is Dead, Sort Of
There has been some interesting reading recently which may not seem to be related but definitely has some commonalities. The common threads in these posts may not seem obvious at first, but after some discussion I think you will see what I am talking about. First, we have seen the whirlwind marketing tour that is… Read More Blazing A Trail Or Sitting In Comfort
Data, context and analysis has come up a lot lately. I talked about data and context about a month ago when people were arguing about JSON vs. XML. The problem at that time was that people were comparing data formats instead of potential usage: As with any programming problem, different requirements and different contexts may… Read More Data, Context, Analysis And Meaning
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