Archive for the 'social networking' Category

Ogres Select Consumption Over Networking (OSCON)

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

It’s weird how worlds intersect. Here is some lobbycon dialog:
“I don’t know, but if you plot the points, there aren’t many intersections. I’ve noticed it on my Facebook: The Open Source world has different geeks, and then the Web 2.0 world is mixed up. Priorities are f’d—people like X, who are big in the Web [...]

Top Rails

Monday, July 7th, 2008

It came out in conversation today if there were other Ruby on Rails sites bigger than Twitter. The answer is, yes.

The top five ranked Rails-powered sites as tracked by Alexa and provided by this list. Note that the graph is semi-log.

The boxes we are

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

A random post on my stalker feed brings me back of the last party

“Are you single?” It’s the second time at the party, Alex has asked that. The internal dialog is now in fine form.
This is San Francisco, shouldn’t you ask if I’m gay first?, “Stop trying to fill out a social networking registration page, [...]

Looking for that mouse

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

A friend sent me this article with the comment, “I think you will enjoy reading this.”
I did. Thanks.

Zombie vs. Pirate

Friday, June 27th, 2008

OR:
Zombie: What, oh what is this secret that you will never tell? Your status keeps threatening to not tell. It even reads “EVER!”
Zombie: Muuuuuuuust knoooooooooow gosssssip!
Zombie: p.s. Braaaaaaaaaaains

Zombies
Z. Cioccolato, North Beach, San Francisco, California
Panasonic DMC-LX1
1//125sec @ f/4, iso 100, 6.7mm (30mm)

Pirate: I could tell you, but then I’d have to, you know, kill you. [...]

Egos and assholes

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The strange thing about search is it’s a lot like academia: full of assholes. I know, since I’m one of them. So I was trying to figure out why this twitter about my Keynote bothered me so:
“@tychay apparently serving red meat to the faithful at #phptek proving there are language Nazis on both sides.
—tweet from [...]

Advertising in social networking

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Because I work in social networking, people often ask me about advertising in social networks. For some reason, they don’t buy the obvious excuse that I’m an engineer, not a business person or entrepreneur. What do I know?
[The problem of advertising in social networking]

Goodbyes and hellos

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I just get back from Amsterdam and two of our engineers are leaving Tagged and we have a lot of job openings.
One of the departing wrote an interesting e-mail on leaving which I’ll quote below and maybe it’ll give you an idea what it’s like working here. But first, some open job reqs…
[Tagged Jobs Reqs [...]

Bebo for $850 million

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I guess the news in my world today is that Bebo sold to AOL for $850 million.
Trust AOL to make the Microsoft-generated $15 billion “valuation” look like a steal. I’m curious how much Hi5 must be worth now:

Just trying to add some perspective. Not sure how Falco thinks “dominating in the United Kingdom” is going [...]

The Trouble with Techies

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

While researching the previous article, I came across this hilarious quote:
This is a far cry from 1966, originally the Klingons were scotch tape Asians (Fong, 176); White actors given slanty eyes. The Klingon race incarnate all the characteristics that most scare White America. The Klingons are violent, ill tempered, lustful, and drunk. [...]