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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Google I/O 2008 key[notes]

Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering at Google.
What does Google have to do with developers?

At a very high level, Google cares about moving the web forward. Advancing it, is something we think is critical to the ecosystem.
Do you have a cloud? I suspect not.
At Google, we spend millions of millions of dollars on clouds. We can [...]

My Facebook wish list

Dear Facebook,
Before you launch your new redesign, consider the following improvements. They shouldn’t be hard to implement.

Events tab. Facebook’s event application is great if you have large groups becuase you can message all members.

Smaller app invite icons. Make the important icons (friend requests, event invites, photo tags) larger, and the developer app invites a lot [...]

Facebook redesign in beta

I’ve been a Facebook user for four years now, and since 2004, it’s still been the website I check more than anything. The amount of social data on Facebook is ginormous. Today, they soft-launched a sneak peek at their new design. It’s… unfamiliar, really white, and awkwardly-centered, but otherwise awesome.

I think it’s cool that [...]

Vote for Leah D’Emilio

Jason Calacanis impresses me more everyday. I have been following along his new Mahalo Vlog Idol, a contest to find a replacement for Mahalo Daily.
When I saw Leah D’Emillio, I had a feeling inside that she would be the best one for the job. Even after watching all of the contestants do their own Mahalo [...]

Interpersonal Communication 2.0

By now, you are probably a master at IMing and chatting with friends online. You use AIM, YIM, Adium, and IRC. GChat and Facebook Chat work well in the browser, but there is chatter of a slimmer client, and it doesn’t go down every day like Twitter.

Welcome to Chatterous, the next generation of chatting on [...]

Introducing BNET Speaker Series

Today marked the first ever BNET Speaker Series featuring News.com’s Dan Farber interviewing Mary-Jo Foley, ZDNet blogger and author of Microsoft 2.0.

To help expose the event, we also invited the Lunch 2.0 crowd.

That’s why our courtyard was full of people today.

These events are great because they give our community a chance to check out our [...]