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Way back in February the writing was on the wall: Twitter would compete directly with third party developers who were creating Twitter apps. Twitter investor Fred Wilson reiterated that threat just a few days ago when he said most of the apps that third party developers had created were merely “filling holes,” not truly creating [...]
Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
For all the credit Facebook has received for its privacy controls and user safety, the site still falls prey to an unsettling number of security issues and potential data breaches. Last month a botched code push accidentally revealed private user email addresses, and before that Facebook accidentally sent private messages to the wrong recipients. [...]
Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It was inevitable. Adobe has an unofficial Facebook fan club: “I’m With Adobe,” an allusion to the viral “I’m With Coco” campaign for jilted ex-Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien. As of Saturday afternoon, the group (started by John Addis, a Web & Media Director at Rizzi Designs) has attracted more than 1,200 members in [...]
Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Many people have never heard of myYearbook, a social network that skews pretty young (half of its members are teenagers). But it’s got a substantial audience, with around 55.7 million visits and 4.3 million uniques a month, according to comScore. And recently, it’s been growing very quickly — according to comScore, unique [...]
Sun, April 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Yeah, yeah – I’m a little late to this, but it’s simply too good not to be on TechCrunch.
This week, South Park finally got around to parodying Facebook and Chatroulette, and with them the entire spectrum of creepy online oversharing. Here are a couple of highlights (ripped from the original source so our international readers [...]
Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Last year, OneRiot ventured into the advertising world with RiotWise, an ad format which places content in an emphasized position in their realtime feed. The search engine also launched a pilot program of RiotWise Trending Ads, a stream of ads that correspond to trending topics as they emerge across the social web, that has since [...]
Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As you'd expect, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a constant salesman. At a dinner last night in New York City, he kept showing everybody in the room his newest baby, Salesforce Chatter, which turns Salesforce into feeds of people and customer data. He was showing it on his iPhone, which he wields as [...]
Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We’re hearing that iTunes will be implementing Facebook Connect support in the near future, allowing users to share some of their recent purchases with their friends on Facebook. We’re still gathering more details, but it sounds like this could happen quite soon.
It certainly adds up. Over the last few weeks, iTunes has been [...]
Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
This weekend, as hundreds of thousands of people explored their iPads for the first time, many of them tried downloading the iPad edition of the App Store’s most popular application ever: Facebook. What they found was an application called Facebook Ultimate, featuring a sleek version of the familiar ‘f’ logo. The application quickly rose [...]
Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
MySpace is preparing to add Facebook Connect features to its main service, we’ve confirmed from a source within MySpace. This will be the first time MySpace will publicly conceded defeat to Facebook over ownership of the social graph, and it’s more than a touchy subject internally.
So touchy, in fact, that my source tells me that [...]
Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
