Interesting news day
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 8th May, 2008
It’s funny how some days there’s nothing interesting in the news and some days a whole bunch of different things capture your attention. It’s a bit like playing craps in one of these vegas hotels, you never know what you’re going to get! So, here’s what I found interesting:
Specs of Facebook’s Profile Redesign - interesting [...]
Web 2.0 for lunch
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Mar, 2008
I went to listen to Sherrilynne give a seminar on Web 2.0 and Social Media at the International Business School over lunch. It was a great event where she covered quite a lot of ground. I always enjoy listening to Sherrilynne speak, because, although I have experiences similar to what she describes, she always comes [...]
Scrabulous vs Hasbro
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Jan, 2008
It’s been a couple of years since I received my Cease and Desist order to take my ASP version of Magic 8 Ball off the web. It was a tiny app, but I was quite shocked that that Mattel’s stance is to kill anything similar to the product they hold the copyright for rather than [...]
The Lone Server
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 11th Jan, 2008
Today I came across an interesting viral marketing campaign that Microsoft have embarked on. It’s the story of The Lone Server, which is allegedly the last Windows 2003 server that Microsoft are using now that they have switched all their other servers to Windows 2008.
Oh, and The Lone Server even has a Facebook and LinkedIn [...]
Google Braindrain
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Nov, 2007
Interesting post on Techcrunch talking about how there seems to be a number of people leaving Google to join Facebook. And it doesn’t seem to be about just money. Facebook is perceived as being a more exciting place to work and experiencing the phenomenal growth that Google enjoyed in the early days. Facebook is set [...]
Getting to grips with Twitter
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 21st Nov, 2007
I’ve finally managed to get Twitter ingrained into the way I do things. Have you tried it yet? If so, does it work for me? I originally found it interesting, but could never see myself leaving a browser open on Twitter, or going back to visit the website, so it didn’t really catch on. Now [...]
Facebook ups the ante
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th Nov, 2007
Here’s something interesting that I must have missed. Facebook has a system where users can create pages for products, companies, artists or anything else they wish. Each of these “pages” has a profile, and associated details, events, pictures, movies, reviews, discussions .. and best of all fans. Once a product page is created, people can [...]
Facebook as a productivity tool
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Oct, 2007
I came across a great post today, Deanna down at StrivePR was talking about how FaceBook has become part of her working life in her post: FaceBook as a sausage-on-a-stick. I’ll quote part of her post:
Whilst many companies may be blocking it or fawning about its use within their workplace, I am becoming increasingly [...]
Facebook violates your data ..
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Oct, 2007
… or does it? Just read an article in ValleyWag that points at a number of data privacy infractions that Facebook employees have allegedly taken part in. The infractions range from checking out a date’s details, seeing what profiles they have visited etc. The truth is, having that amount of data at your fingertips can [...]
I hope that’s just a codename
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 29th Oct, 2007
Just read on TechCruch that Google is preparing to rev up it’s social networking offering by preparing an API for developers to expand on Orkut, iGoogle and other applications of theirs. This will enable them to compete directly with FaceBook on an equal front. The codename of this project: Maka Maka. Sounds like something right [...]
Facebook to get an IM
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Sep, 2007
I read with interest this morning that Facebook was going to be getting an Instant Messaging client (IM). It would be fun to have something that was integrated into the whole Facebook experience and the feature list included:
No Registration
No Initialisation
No Download
All your friends in one IM
Sounds too good to be true? Well, further digging indicated [...]
Microsoft looking to buy a chunk of Facebook?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 25th Sep, 2007
I’ve just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that almost sounds as speculative as a Search Engine Marketing blog. It talks about how Microsoft is try to acquire a stake in FaceBook as part of their ploy to wrest Internet dominance from Google. Now I’m not sure what WSJs articles are normally like, [...]
Make money by surfing on FaceBook
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 17th Aug, 2007
It was only a matter of time! First someone builds a platform with a couple of useful applications, then come a wave of fun applications and games, then in come the profiteers and people trying to make a quick buck. Today I came across what I believe will be the first of many, a per-per-surf [...]
I’m on Pownce
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 7th Aug, 2007
Just when you thought Facebook has taken over the world, in comes another social network to steal it’s thunder. I signed up with Pownce today and here’s my Pownce page. I haven’t really given it a chance yet, but it seems much more limited that anything Facebook brings to the table. But then, the power [...]
Blogging: Conversations with strangers?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 1st Aug, 2007
I was trying to add Sam Gentile to my FaceBook friends list this morning and he declined on the basis that he didn’t know me. And rightfully so; we’ve never met, he’s never seen me, he’s never even heard my name before. But I feel I know him. I’ve been reading his blog for the [...]
