This is the story of how the Facebook dev platform is sooo 2007, while Twitter - as a platform and social command line - will be the story of 2009. Twitter's openness as an app platform could make it the default development platform for community apps.
Facebook: The King of 2007
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Whether his words or his team's, Zuckerberg eats some crow today via the corporate facebook blog and apologizes for essentially some poor product decisions in Beacon. Responding to some critics, Facebook will offer a global opt-out for Beacon. As I posted previously, Beacon already offered a ...
Based on all the hyperbole being spewed about Facebook's recently-launched Beacon program from asinine FTC complaints to political activism run amok (and that's my liberal friend Scott's point of view) one would think that Facebook's Beacon program was the spawn of the devil. I've heard creepy, nightmare, scary, invasive ...
My online penpal Allen Stern passes along the rumor that Fox Interactive Media is in discussions to buy the business networking behomoth LinkedIn. Bravo - I say. Linkedin would certainly offer a nice counter weight to the antics displayed within most MySpace profiles. And if identities online stay splintered (personal ...
Just posted on the Lookery blog about how Facebook apps are a potential safe harbor in the sea of unpredictable UGC comment.
What's amazing as I talk to friends in the online ad space how much advertisers and media planners are scared about being affiliated with inappropriate content. Facebook apps ...
Om Malik, a rising Facebook hater (likely a reaction to the over the top lovefest that tends to invade the valley from time to time -even if in the long run the love fest is right it can be a little much), pens a dismissive post pointing to comscore's september ...
Dave McClure wrote a good article today on TechCrunch that is a great primer on why the social graph concept is so important and how you can use it on social networks like Facebook to launch, promote and build an audience for your startup, company or product. It's as close ...
Good article over at Search Engine Land from my new found buddy search and developer relations guru Vanessa Fox on People Search. Vanessa interviews the players in the space including the CEO's of Spock and Wink. Very exhuastive review of the article.
Vanessa quotes me (and notes my former role at ...
There has been a lot of news of folks claiming to have come up with the idea of Facebook before the Facebook folks did. And all I could think of was Jon Lovitz's Pathological Liar character from SNL. First there was the lawsuit from the ConnectU guys, ...
Yep another Facebook post (hopefully I won't turn into Dave McClure <jk>) but I think the reaction to Trip Advisor's purchase of the Where I've Been FB app for $1.30 per user or $3 million for 2.3 million users justifies some analysis. Not only is the word insane used ...
