Are You a Hot Up-and-Coming Utah Startup? I Want to Meet You!
I’m thinking about starting a series on this blog of hot startups that I find interesting in Utah. I’d really like to show to the world the great startup scene that Utah has to offer – hopefully other bloggers in the area can pitch in and join in this effort as well. I am relatively […]
Read more...Using Perl/Catalyst and Want to Use Sometrics? Try This.
I’ve been analyzing various Social Applications Analytics tools lately, and have recently stumbled upon Sometrics. Sometrics handles full Analytics for your Facebook, Bebo, and MySpace applications, and will actually utilize the Facebook API to retrieve demographic info about those visiting your Application. As I examine the other Analytics solutions for Facebook and other Social Network […]
Read more...I’m Listening to Your Comments, I Promise!
I just realized I was missing about a week’s worth of comments from this blog. It looks like Google Reader at some point stopped tracking the comments (which is how I knew you were commenting), and I missed a few great ones, including one from BJ Fogg, whom I look up to. My apologies if […]
Read more...Improving the Twitter Web With SocialToo
I have a sincere favor to ask of you. Would you, if you have not already, go to http://socialtoo.com and sign up and help me out in my cause? Share it with others, blog about it, Twitter it – this was written for you. Today, I launched something special on SocialToo.com, something that I hope […]
Read more...Live Blogging the Web 2.0 Expo: Matt Mullenweg of WordPress
Matt Mullenweg, a fellow Houstonian and all around cool guy spoke to us today at Web 2.0 Expo about WordPress’s present and future. Some features from the talk: WordPress has 2 main products, Akismet, and WordPress.com. Akismet is solving many of the Spam problems Matt Cutts from Google talked about earlier, and WordPress.com handles much […]
Read more...Stay N’ Alive Productions and SocialToo.com Present Facebook "Chat-B-Gone" (#web20expo)
I’m sitting in here at the Blogger Lounge at Web 2.0 Expo, and have been working on a cool little gadget I think you may like. Mari Smith yesterday Tweeted that she and others wished there was a way they could “turn off” Facebook chat. Right now there are privacy controls to block people and […]
Read more...Live Blogging the Web 2.0 Expo: Yahoo Announces Y! OS #web20expo
Yahoo’s keynote proved very interesting. In it they announced a new technology they call, Y! OS. This technology is to be the beginning of a new Open, Social Strategy for Yahoo, and with the technology, as they term it, they are “Re-wiring Yahoo”. Starting today, Yahoo is opening up the beta for their Search Monkey […]
Read more...Live Blogging the Web 2.0 Expo: Mark Andreeson #web20expo
Mark Andreesen, creator of Mosaic and founder of Ning.com, spoke to us in an interview today at the Web 2.0 Expo, and shared with us some of his thoughts on the growing up of the web, and what he thinks of the future. As I mentioned earlier, one interesting thing he mentioned was plans for […]
Read more...Ning Creator, Mark Andreesen, Announces Plans for Facebook Platform Integration
I’m sitting here at Web 2.0 Expo and watching the Mark Andreesen Keynote. One interesting thing he mentioned was that Ning (and others) has plans to launch onto both OpenSocial and Facebook platforms. This is the first I have been aware of plans outside of Bebo to utilize the Facebook Platform, and I believe a […]
Read more...Live Blogging the Web 2.0 Expo: Microsoft
Microsoft has been all over the news lately with their “Mesh” announcement. It really sounds like Ray Ozzie is getting the idea of “being open”. I’ll share my notes from the keynote here: Microsoft has “a big announcement” we’re told. Here are the notes from their keynote: “Unified Data Management” – what if all your […]
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