Microsoft Offering Free Windows 7 Phones for Black Friday
I’ve had my criticism of Microsoft in the past, but the new Microsoft keeps pulling me back. Just a few minutes ago on the Windows Facebook Page Facebook announced: “Here is a Black Friday sneak peek for our social media fans: Visit your local Microsoft Store this weekend, starting November 26, to pick up Windows […]
Read more...Now You Can "Like" Any Tweet on Twitter.com
As part of Kynetx’s Facebook App contest I wrote a simple browser extension that you can install on Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Firefox, which allows you to, in addition to the “retweet”, “favorite”, and “reply” links you see when you mouse over a Tweet, you can also now “like” the Tweet as well. What does […]
Read more...Are Toll Roads Open?
Twitter proved me wrong. Well, sorta. After my last article I had a whole slurry of rebuttals by Twitter employees suggesting my last article had “serious factual errors” and that the move by Twitter to charge $360,000 a year for 50% access to their full firehose through Gnip actually made Twitter “more accessible” and “open”, […]
Read more...Twitter’s Gnip Deal Ensures a Closed Ecosystem
Today, at Defrag conference, Twitter announced a new deal with the Real-Time stream proxy Gnip, where for $360,000 per year they will search 50% of all content posted to Twitter. This move follows the move, as I mentioned earlier, of Twitter moving further and further away from an open platform, and more towards one they […]
Read more...With Facebook Messages, Has Facebook Reached FriendFeed Nirvana?
There’s no doubt of the FriendFeed team’s influence on Facebook after they were acquired a year ago. Bret Taylor, CEO of FriendFeed is now the CTO of Facebook after all. Even before the acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook was taking cues from the service, adding “like” buttons to posts, something available on FriendFeed for quite some […]
Read more...How to Get a User’s E-mail With Facebook Messages, and Why it Doesn’t Matter
It appears that Facebook has taken the Higher Ground. I also warned on Twitter that when Facebook opens up, they also innovate. That, they did today as they launched their new “Facebook Messages” product, a “Social Inbox” intended to change the way you communicate with your close friends and family. The new service also creates […]
Read more...SELLERS BEWARE: How Ebay Swindled Me $230
Remember that Xbox I said I was selling? Well, I sold it. 2 MONTHS AGO (September 11 – ironically, it’s so old Ebay doesn’t even show it in their records any more). Just a week ago I got notice that the buyer filed a fraudulent claim notice (yes, 2 months later), and we were required […]
Read more...Facebook, Play the Higher Ground
I was wrong. On Twitter, Buzz, and on Scoble’s blog I was insisting there was a way to retrieve Email addresses via Facebook‘s API. That’s because I truly thought there was. In fact, I had this scathing blog post ready criticizing Google on playing games with Facebook (which I think is wrong and evil, too) […]
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