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Category Archives: Facebook

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 [...]

Eggs 2.0

Great video by iJ:

My favorite eggy is the Twitter blue bird:

Connected to every medium

The web allows us to keep in touch with our friends in so many ways today. When I log into Facebook, I am immediately greeted with a news feed of activity.

Users can update their status too. So whether you like it or not, you know what they are doing.

Twitter is only status:

A can also [...]

Pownce stands for participation

I was listening to Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak argue about the difference between Pownce and Twitter. Guys, THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Twitter simply asks, “What are you doing?”

Pownce doesn’t ask you any questions. Instead, it feels like a comfortable, social web app. Yea, it looks like Twitter, but you can choose different media types, [...]

Buy and sell your friends

I hate 99% of Facebook apps, but this one is truly addicting. These are all my current pets:

You make money on Friends For Sale by logging in and buying friends. When someone else buys a friend from you, the profit goes to you. I am valued at $16,745 today.

I find myself logging in every four [...]

geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

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