Thursday, 18 November 2010
Monday, 15 November 2010
Facemail? Gmail Killer?? Anything else?
And now Facebook, which wants to be your social network, your photo and video sharing conduit, your search engine, your recommendations machine, your geolocator, your coupon distributor, and (apparently) your email service. This may well be its jump-the-cartilaginous-killer-fish moment.
When you try to be all things to all people, you risk being nothing to no one. I think I saw that on a fortune cookie somewhere.
Robert X. Cringely at infoworld.com
Friday, 5 November 2010
Google Calls Out Facebook’s Data Hypocrisy, Blocks Gmail Import
Facebook has long been a one-way valve. You put data in so you can connect with friends, and then you can’t get it out and use it the way you would like to, even as the company is trying to corner the market on your identity.
And Thursday night Google called out its rival on such data-portability hypocrisy: It banned the huge social network from allowing its users to connect their Gmail contacts to see who among them are also on Facebook to get the friending frenzy started.
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Facebook and Google are locked in a fight over who controls identity on the net, which Facebook is handily winning, with its Connect service that automatically logs you into some sites (and transfers your profile) and gives sites and now phone apps an easy way to let people login via their Facebook credentials. It’s a convenience that puts Facebook firmly at the center of the Web.
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Facebook has a history of blocking its rivals and, until now, it hasn’t been serious challenged. In June, Twitter’s Facebook app gave users the ability to find which of their Facebook friends were also on Twitter, so that you could follow them or make a list of them to follow. Facebook quickly shut that down.
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Google Calls Out Facebook’s Data Hypocrisy, Blocks Gmail Import | Epicenter | Wired.com
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Seth Godin: How media changes politics
Mass media is dying, and it appears that mass politicians are endangered as well.
Friday, 22 October 2010
In technology, being late can be as disastrous as being wrong.
Microsoft hasn’t just lost market share since the iPhone inaugurated the modern smartphone era, it has seen its position implode, falling to 5 percent in the second quarter from 22 percent in 2004.
... within five years, more users will connect to the Internet on mobile devices than the desktop computers that Microsoft has dominated for decades. Unless the company can establish a beachhead in mobile, it’s facing a long slow slide into irrelevance.
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Google releases Demo Slam: Let the Slams begin
Via googleblog.blogspot.com:
Google Demo Slam is a competition for tech demos - not just by startups and other tech companies, but for anybody who wants to create a video that shows others how to use a cool tech product.
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A place where boring tech demos become (hopefully) gotta-show-my-friends awesome...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Twitter Aims to Get 1 Billion Users, Matching Facebook Target
Evan Williams, Twitter Inc.’s co-founder said the world’s third-largest social-networking platform will aim to get 1 billion followers, which may help the micro-blogging site compete with Facebook Inc. in attracting advertisements.
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Williams didn’t elaborate on a timeframe.
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"Twitter now is starting to try different types of monetizing methods," said Elinor Leung, head of Internet research at CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong. "It’s the same as YouTube. They have a lot of traffic, and a lot of people using it, but it’s not easy to monetize because you don’t know who’s watching."Read more at Bloomberg.com
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