With The Band

Wave by wave, technology has brought us amazing advancements.
Problem is, they don’t replace each other, they are cumulative. People still have records, 8-tracks, tapes, CDs, minidiscs*, 8mm reels, VHS tapes, DVDs… All are recently or long obsolete, but still technically operational, and therefore used.
The same happens with communication, particularly recently. Not only do previous methods […]

Justin posted the other day about social objects, particular aspects of us (pictures, bookmarks, status, etc…) that can be shared with other people. I was going to write a post about how my “killer” social object would be location. I ended up scrapping it, but given Yahoo’s announcement of FireEagle, a platform for personal geographic […]

Google released a set of standards called OpenSocial, which will allow developers to, instead of writing, say, a Facebook application which only works on Facebook, an application that will work on any social network that supports OpenSocial (which a lot of the other social networks other than Facebook/MySpace do).
It’s not the open social network.
It’s […]

I was playing around with FriendCSV, which exports data on your Facebook friends into a format that can be imported into any number of applications. It’s cool, but the only worthwhile information are birthdays (Facebook, taking the black-hole approach to data retention, doesn’t let out essential contact information)… and the user IDs of all your […]

I like the idea of LinkedIn developing their own API. I think a lot of good application ideas that initially were developed for the Facebook platform will be a lot better suited to the professional attitude of LinkedIn. I have a few myself, which would be wasted on Facebook, but I believe would thrive on […]

I love when the gov’t prevents you from working for them. So instead of actually doing anything productive, I made a fun Facebook application, from start to finish!
CrazyCaptions lets your friends add funny captions to your Facebook
photos! Create caption contests that show up on your profile in one
step!
Developing on the Facebook platform definitely has it’s […]

Since the Facebook Platform has been launched a number of months ago, allowing anyone to write an application that can interact with Facebook users in any number of ways, thousands of such applications have been released. While many startups are forming (and existing ones) focusing solely on Facebook applications, a viable business model for a […]

I’ve noticed something over the past couple years. The old status quo of internet usage was to hide behind nicknames, and to divulge as little personal information as possible. Instant messaging, web sites, and chat never demanded much more than a pseudonym, and with no way to form relationships, there was no expectation of telling […]