Facebook Launches Facebook Platform
TechCrunch just wrote that Facebook is opening up their API to any third party developer who is so inclined. This is an interesting development and, as the post writes, is a dividing point between Facebook and MySpace. Facebook's move will undoubtedly add plenty of functionality as new applications ...
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May 24, 2007
Joost Needs To Get Its Act Together
I was lucky enough to get an invite to Joost a while back and have been playing around with the program ever since. I like it enough that I am willing to put up with periodic outages and a very unstable program, but if I were Joost I would get ...
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May 14, 2007
US Army Brings The PR Fight To YouTube
I guess it was only a matter of time before the army finally realized the communications potential of the internet. While they have been using advertising on internet sites to attract potential soldiers for quite some time, only today have they realized the potential community sites like YouTube have in influencing ...
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May 1, 2007
Social Networking And The Va. Tech Tragedy
The Fast Company Blog has a great post about how the Virgina Tech community used Facebook to disseminate information and act a healing tool in the wake of the tragic shootings there. While college students won't be surprised by anything written in the post, people skeptical of social networking ...
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April 24, 2007
Is the online office possible?
I am a big proponent of moving office operations online so staff and employees can access their email and files anywhere, anytime. The Editor of Wired magazine just wrote a piece detailing his experience in moving to a wholly browser based system using Google's system of online apps. His findings are interesting ...
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April 18, 2007
Newsvine Democratizes The News
For the majority of people got their news from daily or weekly newspapers, then the television era brought nightly broadcasts and 24 hour news channels. Now the internet and social networking is bringing the next generation of news consumption to the masses. Newsvine combines traditional news sources like the Associated ...
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March 5, 2007
Next Generation Micro-Loans
I came across a website today that peaked my interest. Its called Kiva (www.kiva.org), and it takes entrepreneurship global. Budding businessmen, or women, in developing countries can apply to their local micro-loan corporation for a sum of money, usually under $1000. The problem before this website came around however was ...
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August 28, 2006
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