Tech Week In Review: Facebook API and Desktop, Swine Flu, 4Chan, and Phishing
Facebook API First, Facebook starts copying features from FriendFeed and Twitter. Now, they have decided that copying features isn’t enough to stay on top and they’ve decided to open up their API to developers. The only problem there is that Facebook isn’t as open as we first thought. It’s so-called open API is just a [...]
Read MoreSports Aggregator FireExit Alpha Invites
There are so many places to find the latest information about your favorite sports teams, but no really easy way to do it. Currently you have to either browse or search your favorite news sources for the latest chatter about you favorite teams or visit a start-up we just featured called ARHE that focuses on [...]
Read MoreThe Not-So Inclusive Web and Network Failure
Dawn Douglass recently asked the question, “How can the Web truly be “open” when only young white male geeks get to decide what the Web is?” I spend a lot of time thinking about technology. Every morning the first thing I do is pop open my feedreader to read all the incoming articles from all [...]
Read MoreWeb 2.0 Services Shutting Out Developing Countries
In a particularly infuriating Article, the New York Times sites developing countries as the toughest places to monetize web traffic for web services like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. The article makes the argument that countries in South America, parts of Asia and Africa, are particularly hard to monetize due to the increased costs of serving [...]
Read More12seconds Plans to Plug Into Facebook
12seconds is one service that never ceases to amaze me. Not only do they run an awesome video microblogging service, but they always seem to think of the coolest features to add and they stay connected with their community. You may wonder what that mysterious video service is that’s integrated with your Tweetdeck. If you’re [...]
Read MoreAspireRevo: Acer’s Ace in the Hole
First there were netbooks, the smaller, cheaper cousin of the notebook. Then came the nettop, the you guessed it — smaller, cheaper cousin of your desktop PC. Now the good folks at Acer are going all in and putting their cards on the table with the new AspireRevo nettop computer. The AspireRevo is the first [...]
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