Tech Week In Review for July 3rd

FriendFeed Adds 3 New Features I don’t know how those FriendFeed guys do it, but it seems like they add a new feature every other day. Here is what they’ve added recently: Real-time Search - We all know FriendFeed operates in real-time. New items slide up to the top of the page right before your eyes. It’s [...]

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Tech Week In Review for June 26th

You can now share files on FriendFeed Items on FriendFeed that get the most action are those with photos. They help to engage the viewer by standing out against a wall of text. Now, FriendFeed has activated file sharing, which allows you to upload just about any file you’d like. This has serious implications for other [...]

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MySpace Eliminates 30 Percent of its “Bloated” Staff

MySpace, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, announced that it has cut 30 percent or approximately 400 people from its payroll in effort to return to a "startup culture." The layoffs will reduce the number of MySpace employees to around 1000.

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Registering for a Facebook Username

The Facebook Blog states, “We’re planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will [...]

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The Race for Facebook Usernames

Saturday, June at 12:01 AM, Facebook users will be able to choose custom usernames for their pages. This presents a number of potential benefits as well as problems.

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Did You Get Tagged Yet?

I recently heard that people were talking about Tagged for some odd reason. I decided to investigate and see why. I mean, Tagged is a pretty nice social networking site, but it’s definitely no Facebook or Myspace. It didn’t appear they had made any major updates, so why were people talking about it? My search led [...]

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Tech Week in Review: Chrome, Facebook Boobs, Big Bing, DandyiD

Google finally released a version of Chrome that works on Mac and Linux. Facebook reversed a decision where they had removed photos posted by a British woman who had a mastectomy. According to ReadWriteWeb, Bing dropped their mobile version just after their new web search became available. The new Pro version of DandyiD sounds quite interesting for those of us deeply involved in social media.

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Streamy Gets Serious with Chat, Streams, and FB Connect

We wrote about Streamy coming out of private beta back in March. Streamy connects you with a few of your favorite social media websites and allows you to manage them from one simple interface. Service supported include Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and Flickr. Not only that, but Streamy wants to be your RSS Feed reader as [...]

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Unify Your Online Activity with PeopleBrowsr

Back in December, we talked about PeopleBrowser which was then Alpha 0.7. Now, with their new Alpha 0.999j release and open beta status, PeopleBrowsr is trying to take their service to the public. I have to say that it looks a looks a little better than it did almost half a year ago. The interface [...]

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Status.ug: A Local Mobile Portal for Facebook

Last week I rebutted an article from the New York Times about the developing world being a collective boost to Web 2.0 application user numbers, but a bane in the sense that they have a hard time monetizing that international traffic. As I wrote that post, I had one of the projects we were working [...]

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