Archive for the ‘facebook’ Category

gnomedex 2007 – thoughts from the floor

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I am attending gnomedex today and tomorrow grokking with an interesting slice of the tech blogosphere and startup-sphere.  Some of the folks I have finally met face to face include Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Beth Goza, Vanessa Fox, Shannon Clarke, Chris Pirillo, Dave Schappel, Jeff Bar and many others.  Great ...

OMG – FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!! Scoble and McClure might go into Convulsions!

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I hope McClure and Scoble aren't going through withdrawal ;-)  Jason Calacanis is probably relieved. UPDATE: It wasn't just me as CNET reported here.

valleywag calls it – facebook is the new microsoft

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Valleywag - one of my favorite daily tech reads (please owen start covering the scene here in seattle) - posts what I believe a lot of folks are wondering - is facebook the new microsoft?  Facebook is following the Microsoft development platform playbook (as discussed here previously) with their F8 ...

appaholic – the facebook app billboard

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

another thing - thanks for dave mcclure for pointing this out for me today - great resource for fb app research - appaholic.com - check it out.

facebook apps – here, there and everywhere

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Facebook is quite the buzz these days in startup land especially since they opened up their app platform (something that those of us in online marketing have been begging for years for fwiw - hint, hint, wink, wink FIM).  For those building consumer web services you know absolutely need to ...

McClure on SMO (Social Media Optimization)

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Dave McClure, man of 1,000 startup connections (seriously if you're a startup in the valley and haven't met dave I am not sure you exist :) ), writes a good "come-to-jesus" post about the importance of social media in online marketing.   As I have commented before here - the social media ...