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 [...]
I was charging my laptop at the Web 2.0 Expo today, and I had a chance to sit down with Matt Galligan from SocialThing.
I have used FriendFeed for a while, and I signed up for SocialThing too, but I really couldn’t find a reason to login. After talking with Galligan, I realized that SocialThing is [...]
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 [...]
You know those little square thumbnail images that you see in blog comments?
Gravatars are made by Automattic, the same creators of this blog’s main software, Wordpress.
They connect your email to a thumbnail. You can use different mugshots for different email addresses.
So any time you comment on a Wordpress blog, your picture will show up. [...]
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 [...]
The always gracious host Owen Thomas knows how to organize a happy hour.
Washington Square Park has some great bars, and Owen chose Moose’s for the week-end gathering.
I got to see Megan McCarthy, and two of her friends Julia Allison and Meghan Asha.
Meghan let me have her eye-fi memory card.
Paul Boutin and Kyle Shank were wearing [...]