This New Trend in Facebook Apps Looks Ugly
I was tipped today onto Hulu’s new Facebook app, which seems to be aiming to bring the Hulu website into Facebook by including videos and a stream in the app itself. The thing is, it’s hardly an app – it’s just the Hulu website in an HTML tag with an embeded stream widget inside. (Not […]
Read more..."Fish Where the Fish Are" No Longer Applies
My good friend, Jeremiah Owyang had a great quote he liked to share in his presentations, stating that the days of old-style marketing, forcing your customers to your site, no longer applied. He stated that we must “Fish Where the Fish Are“, and right he was. With the advent of Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, MySpace, […]
Read more...LazyFeed Becomes First Real-Time Web Aggregator for rssCloud
Today Lazyfeed announced they had officially launched rssCloud and Pub/sub Hubbub (PSHB) support into their real-time RSS aggregator, making them the first major aggregator for rssCloud outside of Dave Winer’s own River2 client, and the first client of its type for the Web (Dave Winer’s client is written for the desktop OS). What does this […]
Read more...The Sony Xplod MEX-BT5700U, a Radio That Complements the Web
Earlier this year one of my goals was to try and make a transition on this blog and start to review consumer electronics a little more. I’ve had a few posts in mind, but none of them seemed to make sense or fit with the flow of this blog. Recently I received an offer from […]
Read more...Facebook Photo Tagging Apps: Intelligent Design or Plain Old Spam?
The photo tagging apps in Facebook have taken over my stream! Check out the screen shot to the right. Out of the 12 highlights, only half are legitimate posts. The other 6 are apps that have seemingly figured out how to abuse the system and take over my highlights section (either intended or not), giving […]
Read more...Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines
On the Twitter development mailing list today Twitter began discussion on rules developers should abide by when writing applications for the Twitter API. Such terms come on the heels of a much broader Terms of Service launched for the general Twitter user today. I’ve long discussed the need for such guidelines, as many developers are […]
Read more...Wishlist Wednesday – Facebook Connect for Retailers
I think we may be onto a tradition today. In celebration of @jesse mccartney’s birthday (see my last post for background), I’ve got one more wish. This one is for Retailers and how they can better integrate Facebook Connect. Specifically those with physical store locations – I think this one’s pretty cool, and would be […]
Read more...My Facebook Connect Wishlist (for WordPress)
Today everyone seems to be wishing me a Happy Birthday – it’s not really, but it is @jessemccartney’s birthday on Twitter, so I get all the “ZOMG Happy Birthday @jesse mccartney” Tweets from uber-excited fans. Some times I throw them a bone and tell them how much I love them as well. It’s fun to […]
Read more...Make Your Blog Real-Time Now With the rssCloud Plugin
I just posted about the integration of rssCloud on WordPress.com blogs, something that Matt Mullenweg confirmed, and can be enabled on any WordPress.com-hosted blogs right now. About a minute after that post I discovered there is also a plugin for self-hosted wordpress.org blogs like Scoble’s and mine, written by Utah local and Automattic employee Joseph […]
Read more...Dave Winer to Bring Realtime RSS to Millions via WordPress.com?
Today in a very inconspicuous post by Dave Winer, he demonstrated that his new real-time RSS protocol, rssCloud, could very soon be available to the millions of blogs, real-time on WordPress.com. Dave Winer, who played perhaps the most significant role in defining the RSS standard and the subsequent RSS 2.0 standard through which most blogs […]
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