Archive for the 'social networking' Category

Why I love Lunch 2.0

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I love Lunch 2.0. It’s ironic that something that started as a prank on Web 2.0 could become representative of the very thing it teases: free and open communication and “the lunch as a conversation.”
Even though I missed Lunch 2.0 at Oodle, you have to love this mobile post via Utterz by Chris Heuer catching [...]

I’m popular, attractive, and self-confident!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Great news today! Halle blogs another gem about some social “research” results:
“One involved the creation of mock Facebook profiles. Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” friends (about 800 or more) are seen as insecure.”
High number of friends [...]

im n ur feed, posting ur fotos

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Another Friday afternoon ego boost, this time from Mashable and ValleyWag.

Thanks, Owen!
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Certain faddishness

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

People are all in a huff about Ballmer being, as far as I can tell, Ballmer.
“I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”
—Steve Ballmer, Times Online
Now, I think Ballmer is an idiot as much as [...]

Social newsfeeds make relationships so much easier

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Definitely the most fun feed item. It’s like live daytime soaps.

First, Yahoo! Mash is up. It used to be called Yahoo! Mosh, but since Nokia has a beta product called Mosh, they changed it.
Surprisingly they kept “Pulse” which is direct conflict with Plaxo Pulse.
Go figure.
Speaking of Pulse, feeds, and other things… [after the jump] (more…)
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