I have heard many people complaining that Facebook hasn’t released a native iPad app yet, and while that is true, it doesn’t stop some of us from a exploiting a good work around. Step 1 The Spirit Jailbreak for the iPad is required for this work around. It’s the simplest and easiest jailbreak yet. I [...]
Categories: Interests
Compliments of @BenParr from Mashable, we get an internal perspective on the Facebook redesign. They launched this update to 60 million users and Facebook recently celebrated their 400 million user milestone. Facebook has made a lot of news this week celebrating, their 6th birthday and launching a new browser based photo plugin. You might also [...]
Categories: Updates
I wrote a status update that I think some of you read last month. I talked about the new Facebook privacy settings and how they are down right evil. The privacy updates are so slimy, they’ve prompted me to reflect on how I use the service. In fact, Mark Zuckerburg (Facebook’s CEO) is touting how [...]
Categories: Reflections
Last week was an exciting week in tech. The 3 bigs, Facebook, Twitter, and Google made some very relevant announcements that will have an affect on us all. The first major announcement was Twitter Lists, which went live to all users on Friday. I agree with Scoble, Twitter Lists are the most significant upgrade to [...]
Categories: Reflections
For quite some time now, we’ve entertained the possibility of one of the big boys (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo) buying Twitter. That was until Twitter’s stifling 1 Billion dollar valuation earlier this month. Twitter astronomic valuation, combined with mainstream media’s crush on the service, means that Twitter isn’t going to roll up into an [...]
Categories: Reflections
Tagged: bing, facebook, google, msn, rev share, twitter search, yahoo
In July of this year, Facebook started allowing advertisers to target users on their birthday, a required field for signing up with the service. Though I have no statistical basis for this claim, I can only imagine that targeting users on their birthday has a dramatic increase in conversion over traditional means. Considering advertisers don’t [...]
Categories: Reflections
Tagged: advertising, birthday, campaign, facebook
News started breaking last week that Twitter have 50MM committed in the recent round of funding. It wasn’t until the dust settled and hype peaked that we found out they raised over 100MM on a billion dollar +++ valuation. Whoa! Now, wherever you stand on this, you can’t deny it’s big news. Jason Fried, of [...]
Categories: Reflections
I used to be pretty particular about who I would fan on Facebook. I didn’t want that corner of my profile to be cannibalized by brands that were here today and gone tomorrow. Moreover, I certainly wasn’t planning on connecting with brands I wasn’t a fan of in the first place- and that’s all changing. [...]
Categories: Reflections
Okay, many of you know that I started a new gig over the last 3 weeks. Life as I know it, has been turned upside down, sideways, shaken up, and splattered everywhere. To say I’ve been befuddled is an understatement. How am I coping with all the activity? I’m not. I am beyond email bankruptcy, [...]
Categories: Reflections
Tagged: facebook, followers, friends, spring cleaning, twitter
There was one major announcement that came from the Facebook developers conference that I thought deserved to be amplified. I’ll keep this post short and sweet, and leave the analysis up to the pro-bloggers. Here is what I thought was important. Facebook is fundamentally changing the way it thinks of applications and allowing developers to [...]
Categories: Reflections
Tagged: facebook, facebook connect, openid, web 3.0