Google launched Social Graph API. Using publicly available information, Google will begin to connect people and relationships/friendships from blogs and public social networks. As an example, let’s say you have a MySpace profile with friends. You would like to join Twitter and one of the pains of joining a new social network is building friendships [...]
Continuing from the last entry about not being a copycat, let’s talk about the second problem with being a copycat: misinterpretation.
Since Mike Arrington came up in the comments of the previous discussion, let’s use Mike as an example. He is considered “big” in the Web 2.0 arena so it is very natural that someone wanting [...]
The internet is one large place where many conversations are happening. People join social sites like MySpace, Virb, Flickr, or even 9rules for social interaction. With sites like Twitter, Jaiku, etc. the conversation can become very disjointed, meaning that the people trying to follow what you are saying has to look in many places to [...]
Yesterday I read about Rebekka’s copyright issues. To make a long story short she uploaded some images to Flickr (beautiful photography), a company saw her images, downloaded them and resold them…making thousands of dollars. Rebekka attempted to protect herself by uploading images in a lesser resolution but the company was still able to achieve enough [...]
Lately there have been so many things I wanted to write about but felt it would be taken as a rant, so I left it alone. For example, the discussion on how many people are listening to podcasts. I would link to it but the actual report is subscription only ($249.00) and without the report, [...]
