TechCrunch has been covering the breaking news: Facebook is planning to release the infrastructure between the Facebook Platform as free software! Facebook, I knew you had it in you. Many older folks in the tech crowd view Facebook with much suspicion, if not considering it outright evil or Microsoft-like in […]
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Facebook launched two cool new features today: an import feature for the mini-feed and Facebook Lexicon The import feature for the mini-feed is very cool. Basically, if you have an account with another supported web service, updates from those services can be included in your mini-feed by simply specifying your […]
In a Saturday op-ed in the NY Times (via Techdirt), Billy Bragg argues that musicians deserve royalties for the use of their music on the web. Bebo, a social networking site which rivals Facebook and MySpace in popularity in the UK, was recently sold to AOL for $850 million. Bragg […]
I have always been a huge fan of Facebook. I’ve come to their defence many times. Over the News Feed controversy, I sided with them (if you don’t want people to see something, why are you posting it on Facebook?). While people were complaining about Facebook opening its doors, I […]
I’ve ranted before about why I don’t use MySpace, but I admit there have been times when I’ve been tempted. You can get much better technical services through hosting your music elsewhere, but the community exists on MySpace. There’s no social networking aspect to hosting your own website. But the […]