Filed in archive Future
by pete on May 30, 2006
Martha Stewart has announced that she will launch a myspace clone for adult women: The network would appeal to women aged 25 to 45, and allow members to share photographs, scrapbooks, recipes and...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by pete on May 29, 2006
As more of the infrastructure for social networking is distributed, I expect to see vertical social networking communities with very distinct purposes - pop up. While Noah Kagan has been on vacation,...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on May 29, 2006
I've been watching Marc Canter's Broadband Mechanics for awhile now. Marc's had more public fits than starts with Tribe and Ourmedia. But, Marc's got some awesome ideas for allowing...
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Filed in archive Podcast
by pete on May 27, 2006
The Under the Radar blog has two write ups on two different ad networks that have sprung up to place ads in podcasts. Kiptronic: Sponsorship network engine to help podcasters find sponsors and...
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Filed in archive Research
by pete on May 27, 2006
Wallop was recently spun out on its own. If I was a blog search engine or social networking site, I'd be concerned with what they have up their sleeves. Matthew Hurst of Intelliseek is paying...
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In a world full of dangerous people with dangerous minds, it seems that Congress is proposing a new law to filter out MySpace, Friendster, and other social networking networks from libraries and...
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Wine drinkers are intense. My father always makes sure that there is atleast 12% alcohol content in the wine and he says he's never found a bottle he doesn't like that is. However, he's...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on May 27, 2006
I was a bit bullish on the Amazon move to open up their Alexa search API. It appears that people are just starting to use the Amazon Search API to create interesting indexes. I can't imagine any...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on May 27, 2006
In a comment on Jeff Clavier's blog, Jim Scheinman from Bebo clarified their traffic stats: Much of the confusion in the #s above (and frankly in many blog postings) about Bebo's and other SN...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on May 27, 2006
Stefanie Olsen at CNET is following the story. March 17th: In a letter to prosecutors, Google said its Brazilian unit is not responsible for the content on the service, which has about 8 million users...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on May 27, 2006
My favorite news and blog aggregation site has landed a deal with the Associated Press: The Associated Press has entered into a 15-month agreement with news aggregator Topix.net aimed at increasing...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on May 27, 2006
Rafat Ali: You're reading it here first: Bebo, an SF-based social networking site which is in the middle-ground between MySpace and Facebook, and among the biggest in UK, Ireland and New Zealand,...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by pete on May 24, 2006
David Wurtz sent in the answer to the standard social networking weblog interview questions. What is Flagr :: Sharewhere? Flagr.com allows you to bookmark physical locations online or right from your...
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The other big news for the week. Actually, I think this will prove to be bigger news. Is that AOL launched AIMPages. AIMpages is AOL's foray into social networking. But, instead of launching...
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Filed in archive MySpace
by pete on May 13, 2006
I've given up trying to be the first to report stuff. I couldn't do it if I wanted to. But, waiting to read the first 50 bloggers reactions to news is actually more fun. From what I can tell,...
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Having developed and having the responsibility of maintaining software development teams and software development projects, I know that it is a difficult human and code management problem. Assembla...
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Filed in archive Event Software
by pete on May 13, 2006
Matthew McNeely also demonstrated his service at the Web Innovator's Forum. Matt has built a service called Find Free Time. Find Free Time is very similar in purpose to Meet with Approval, which I...
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Also at the Web Innovator's Forum, there were a handful of companies that demonstrated their services in the back of the room. I got to talk to Erik Fantasia, the founder of Calorie Count. Calorie...
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At the Boston Web Innovator's Forum, Julian Bourne presented his startup, ProxPro. The idea behind ProxPro is to help business people to be more prepared for chance or impromptu meetings. They...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on May 09, 2006
At the Boston Web Innovator's Forum, Margaret from Plum presented Plum. Plum is a virtual team. Half here. Half San Francisco. They have not raised institutional funding. They funded it themselves...
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Filed in archive Sites
by pete on May 08, 2006
Here's an interview with Ash Maurya of WiredReach, makers of BoxCloud. Who is your average user? Anyone that has ever needed to share or send files with other people. What value are you providing...
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Don Dodge has a great piece covering the issues that YouTube and Myspace are dealing with. He goes through these 3 big legal issues and then ends with some sage advice: OK, three big problems to deal...
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Filed in archive by pete on May 06, 2006
I never quite finished event week. It's probably safe to assume that I'll continue to reference the fact that I am covering unique online properties that are trying to figure out how to...
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Looks like Friendster can't even sell itself for a small fraction of what was invested. The Deal has the story: Facing an eroding customer base and dwindling funds, Friendster in November hired...
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