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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 [...]

Three reasons why Brightkite will survive

It complements Twitter - It’s really easy to update BrightKite from the web, or your mobile device. It’s not a Twitter clone either. Twitter is the what, BrightKite is the where. It’s fun to see where your friends are. You can also embed photos in your posts, so it’s a rich experience.

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Short attention span theatre

Micromedia is addicting to me. I can’t live without Twitter. At Web 2.0 Expo, the speakers of the “Short Attention Span Theatre: micromedia and microblogging”, you could follow @micromedia, and your Twitter updates would show up on the screen.

The audience controls the session. You could also suggest topics or update the background image on the [...]

Store and share everything online with drop.io

Online storage is brilliant for backing up data. It’s even better for sharing data with friends or colleagues. drop.io does it right.

I use the product for saving bits of data that I want to revisit in the future. For example, when I have time, I wanna learn the C programming language. So I created a [...]

Comparing social platforms

Comparing Social Platforms

Dave Morin, Facebook
Allen Hurff, MySpace
Jessica Alter, Bebo
Patrock Chanezon, Google (Open Social)
David Recordon
Justin Smith, Inside Facebook

Dave: Making changes to the Facebook profile. It’s a core part of the user’s identity. Throughout the last year with the launch of the Platform, we have had many points of integration.
These new changes are focused on the actions [...]

Social data at its finest

Today, Facebook launched a few new features including chat and something called Feedcrawler. But the most interesting release today is called Lexicon. Think of it as Google Trends but for social data.

One of the Facebook engineers working on the projects sent me the above query, but the possibilities are endless. This tool will be [...]