Remember SideKicks? QWERTY keyboard, often referred to as “the brick”? The magic behind these phones, besides rescuing you from using T9 day in and day out, was that every person I knew who had one at one point thought they had lost it, but miraculously always got it back. Exhibit A: my younger brother took [...]
Thoughts on Facebook | entrepreneurship I just saw Jason Calcanis letter to Mark Zuckerberg concerning Facebook’s current business practices. Like everyone else in the Tech industry, we all have our 2 cents and I’m not any different. My thoughts on Jason’s points: Being able to export everything – I do believe this feature would be [...]
Over the course of the last month, the repeated accusations and frustrations that social media networks are violating our privacy have been hard to ignore. Facebook undoubtedly leads the industry in consumer complaints, but in the latest scandal MySpace is part of the bundle. The Wallstreet Journal reported this morning that a few sites including [...]
You might recognize the people to the left. The ConnectU team. Their current claim is that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea to make facebook. Their current course of action is to repetitively raise litigation against Zuckerberg and Facebook because they “got screwed”. Boo Hoo. The fact is that if we assume all their claims are [...]
Yesterday, Facebook launched a really interesting way to reach Facebook on your mobile phone. 0.Facebook (0.facebook.com) is just like most other mobile-only sites as it is extremely lightweight and made to look halfway decent on a tiny screen. This is all just sounding like Facebook’s primordial mobile-only site, m.facebook.com, but 0.Facebook brings something new to the [...]
One of the up and coming social media players, Foursquare, is growing and growing quickly. It’s sitting at 725 million users as of March 29th and as it gained those last 100 million users in 12 days, Foursquare shows no sign of slowing down. Foursquare is a location-based social game. When you go to places [...]
This past weekend, I have been shocked by the invasive messages sent to consumers through web mediums. I first started thinking about this because of a great article on ReadWriteWeb about Facebook deactivation: the writer explains that when he tried to get rid of his account, a message appeared informing him that his friends would [...]