Archive for April, 2008
Windows Live Messenger Facebook App Stinks
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in Facebook. Microsoft has just launched a Live Messenger Application on facebook. Rating:
Windows Live Messenger Facebook App Stinks: I would expect a better solution from Microsoft. It just goes to show how difficult it can be for very sophisticated companies that try to shoehorn a depreciated solution into facebook.
I can see who else has […]
Free Gifts Facebook App Acquired by SGN
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.The wildly popular Free Gifts Application on Facebook was recently acquired by Social Gaming Network SGN. Free gifts was the brainchild of Zach Allia. I had a chance to chat briefly with Zach last year when the app was on fire and growing like a weed. Smart idea, well executed and well adopted by the […]
Twitter Adds Location and More to API
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in twitter.Twitter updates the location attribute of the authenticating user, as displayed on the side of their profile and returned in various API methods. This is good news as now you can do quite a few additional things around city locations.
It is not geobased but rather city based. This is not normalized, geocoded, or translated […]
Data Portability Drops the Ball on Branding
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 30th, 2008 in Branding.Data Portability Drops the Ball on Branding: The big movement about allowing your data and social graph connections to become portable has become a big issue recently in the social network space. The Data Portability Workgroup wanted to establish their brand and create a presence with a Logo.
So they did the social thing and […]
Twitter Ready To Tip?
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 29th, 2008 in social networks, twitter.Twitter is continuing to experience rapid growth in the last quarter. According to web analytics company hitwise twitter Internet visits are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more than doubled and traffic continues to climb, up 60% in the past month.
The challenge with metrics services like hitwise, alexa and compete providing […]
How Do You Update Your Twitter Status
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford April 29th, 2008 in twitter.There are many ways that the millions of users of twitter update and publish content to the service. Some use the web, some use a desktop app, some SMS, some use their iPhone, etc.
We would like to know how you update your status on Twitter. Thanks for taking this poll.
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Facebook IM Live Everywhere
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 23rd, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.Is is now official. Facebook has officially launched their instant message system to the entire network of 70+ million users starting 2 hours ago. Facebook started rolling the IM service out slowly to selected networks starting April 6.
Look at the bottom of your browser page while on facebook to see the IM product and settings. […]
Ping.fm for Status Broadcasting
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 20th, 2008 in Facebook, social networks.Ping.FM Rating:
More and more people are participating on multiple social networks. The challenge of updating your status has become time consuming and cumbersome when you are wanting your status updates to go to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, hi5, Pownce, bebo, Blogger, Jaiku, Myspace, Live Journal, etc.
We have discovered a nice service that actually allows you […]
Business, Communication & Connections
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 18th, 2008 in Facebook, business.Excerpt from an article in Search Unified Communications: Despite facebooks enormous presence, the site (facebook) is still generally off the radar when it comes to acknowledging its role in modern professional lives. “It changes the way you can build relationships,” said Rodney Rumford of Gravitational Media, a social networking consulting firm. In some ways, he […]
Facebook IM Rolls Live in Silicon Valley & NYC
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 18th, 2008 in Facebook.Facebook IM Rolls Live in Silicon Valley & NYC: OK let me just say that we finally saw the facebook IM service live in Silicon Valley.
Our first impressions: Rating: Sweet. Simple. Intuitive. Effective. Nicely Executed.
This service is almost everything that you would expect in an IM service. You can easily see which ones […]
