Facebook Kills "Top Friends"?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
General rule of thumb: if your application can be taken down at any time, and has been by the people that completely own and control the platform on which its build, its not worth $24M dollars (no matter how many users had been using it).
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posted by Russell @ 6:36 AM,
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Friends
Saturday, June 21, 2008
No one's ever accused me of having the quickest friends on the block. But they are mine.
(Well, at least I think they are mine. There's about half in there that I'm not sure I've met before.)
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posted by Russell @ 8:02 AM,
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Facebook Spam
Saturday, September 29, 2007
For those that thought Facebook was somehow magically protected from this sort of thing, think again:Am Janet Douglass, i live in Edinburgh Here in Scotland, my Hobbies are Dancing/Reading/Swimming and Meeting new people and also a God fearing person. am 27 years of Age and here is a shot introduction of myself am Light in Complexion and my Height : 5'9",Dress: 1/3 Waist: 24" ,Hair: Blond ",Eyes: Blue Bust: 35" ,Shoe: 7.5-8 Hips: 35.5" and as i said i like meeting new people so i will like to meet you,.i don't check my face book account often here is my Email address ( janet_douglass2000@yahoo.com ) you can add me to your Yahoo messager and Chat with me so that we can know each other better, Kindly email me your Email address.( janet_douglass2000@yahoo.com )Have a nice Day.
Janet Douglass.....
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posted by Russell @ 9:18 AM,
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Phrase of the day: "Cornucopia of Uselessness"
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
From Valleywag's post regarding Facebook apps:
"None of the most popular apps actually do anything," a high-ranking Yahoo developer recently told Valleywag. It's hard to disagree: "Top Friends"? "Food Fight"? But Facebook's cornucopia of uselessness may gain some measure of utility on Friday.
Labels: facebook, Funny, valleywag
posted by Russell @ 11:51 AM,
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Facebook's Relevant Ads
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I found this in my Facebook Newsfeed today:
They got the "ad" part right, now they just need to work on that "relevant" thing.
Labels: advertising, facebook
posted by Russell @ 8:50 PM,
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Facebook Opens Up Search Results, Sort Of
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
I checked it with Facebook this morning to find a message from the system:
Labels: facebook, social networks
posted by Russell @ 8:29 AM,
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No Wonder the Egos Are So Large
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Dave quits whining long enough to notice that Facebook has opened up their news feeds a little, and Tech Crunch reports it like its something new. No wonder these egos are so large - if I could make a statement about the obvious months after it happened and be treated like a genius my ego would probably over-inflate as well.I don't know exactly when they started publishing friends' status information via RSS, but I think it was there when I signed up 2-3 months ago. Regardless, I know I used these instructions about a month ago to take that information and move it into Twitter.
Labels: dave winer, facebook, tech crunch
posted by Russell @ 9:01 AM,
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So... Which Is It?
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Is Facebook's friend confirmation thing annoying, or not?
posted by Russell @ 10:30 PM,
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Link Bait King
Friday, July 27, 2007
Love him or hate him, you have to admit he's good at playing the game. I'm talking about Calacanis of course. His latest link bait stunt is added to the end of his post (a rather good post btw) on why he is leaving Facebook. Note: I'm not going to turn comments on.... so stop asking. If this is such an important post for your to comment on do it on your blog. If you don't have a blog--which takes 10 minutes to setup--then maybe you're not worthy of commenting, or others reading your comments. If you do have a blog and don't want to take the time to fire off a blog post in response to this then, frankly, how valuable is your comment? The benchmark for responding to my blog is now starting your own blog and writing a post. If you do that I'll consider linking to you if it is intelligent and interesting. Those are the new rules....
Forget about the thought that a blog without comments isn't really a blog. Basically what he is saying here is that if your comment is worth reading then you will take the time to create a blog (if you don't already have one), write a post, and link to him.
Silly? Yes, at face value... But I'd love to find out how many inbound links he gets from it.
Labels: facebook, jason calacanis
posted by Russell @ 4:42 PM,
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m dot
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Lately I've been trying to use my Treo 700p less and work with the Samsung Upstage that I received through Sprint's Ambassador program. I started doing this in anticipation of writing a series of reviews on the phone. I quickly figured out though that the phone isn't that great. At first I thought that you would want to know this, but it soon became apparent that nobody needs me to tell you. I know it, Sprint knows it, and anyone that checks Best Buy and sees that this $379.00 phone comes with a $300.00 instant rebate knows it.
I've kept with it though, mainly as an experiment to see how the other half lives. By "other half" I mean people that aren't using "smart" phones like my Treo or my P6700 - phones on which you cannot install applications. Surprisingly, I found that some of the new mobile sites out there work really well. I'm not ready to give up my Treo just yet, but in a pinch I could certainly continue uninterrupted by using these services.
Here's a round up of my favorite mobile sites, some of which I use on my Treo as well.
gmail (gmail.com/m) Google does have a great application that can be installed right on these phones, but their mobile web site is actually pretty functional and easy to use. Its not something that I could live with for an extended solution (like a weekend out of town) but for the occasional email checking throughout the day its good.
google calendar (google.com/calendar/m) A good implementation of Google's calendar for the small screen. Its not full featured (I was looking tonight and didn't see where I could delete or edit an entry) but their "quick add" feature works very well. I just entered "haircut wed 8pm" and it added it. Then thanks to Plaxo (which I have listed a below as well) that one entry was synced to my Outlook at home and will eventually end up on my MacBook Pro and my Treo 700p.
google reader (google.com/reader/m/subscriptions) Another good implementation of one of Google services (in this case their RSS reader) to the small screen. When I first looked at this "m" site, I was impressed at all. I browsed over to http://google.com/reader/m and found all the articles from all my feeds simply listed. It was very hard to read and I really didn't like it at all. Then I found that if I add "subscriptions" to the end of that address it worked pretty much as I thought it should. Nice reader when I'm on the go...
grand central (m.grandcentral.com) I've written before about what a fan I am of Grand Central. I've even started giving out my GC number as my direct number and am having printed it on my business cards. At first I thought this would be the first non-Google mention on my list, but it seems that changed today as its now rumored that Google is buying them. Their mobile site if very handy though. The first thing I noticed was that in a pinch, I could look up a number from my phone book on their site, and their systems would call the person and my cell and connect us. Since I have no way of syncing my large phonebook with this Upstage, it was a good fall-back. Again though, Plaxo one-ups this in my opinion but its still great for retrieving the voice mails left on their system. You can very easily pay back the voice mails or (in the case of my Treo) download as a file and save/share/listen to them later.
twitter (m.twitter.com) I quit having Twitter send every message to me via SMS about an hour after I returned home from SXSW this year. I do though like to browse through them when I am out and about sometimes and their mobile site is very well designed for this. Minimal graphics make it quick and on small screens. You can post Twitter messages here (which I sometimes do from my N800) but on the phone SMS is still the easiest way to go.
facebook (m.facebook.com) I'm not a 'power user' of Facebook, and honestly (like Twitter) I find that for most things I want to do SMS is the way to go, but on occasion I do like to check it from my phone and their mobile site lays it out very nicely on the small screen and provides a consistent 'Facebook' experience - well done.
weather underground (m.wund.com) This is my favorite weather site for mobile devices. It formats perfectly for my Treo and the Upstage. Simply enter your zip code, then bookmark the resulting site; for some reason it doesn't seem to cache so the information is current ever time I access it. It even provides an animated GIF of the radar (in case you don't know which way the wind is blowing).
plaxo (m.plaxo.com) Plaxo's new service works very well on mobile devices. It gives me access to all of my sync'd data quickly and cleanly. The calendar access doesn't let you add an event as easily as Google's but it does let you edit and delete existing events. Contacts are easy to look up, and when selected it makes the phone (either my Treo or the Upstage) dial it directly. Very handy at times.Labels: facebook, google, grandcentral, mobile, plaxo, Sprint Ambassador Phase 3, twitter, upstage, wunderground
posted by Russell @ 12:13 AM,
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