Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category

Selling the Community-in-a-Box

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Don Dodge coined Web2.0 as “Web App + 2 Founders + 0 Revenue”. Funny, and not too far off the money.
Don goes into detail about the various ways that Web2.0 firms are funding their efforts. This goes from Freemium (free basic membership with paid premium package) to Subscriptions to simple Advertising.
One thing that he doesn’t […]

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Posted in Open Source, Rants, MySpace, programming, ruby, youtube, Social Networking, PHP, Internet, Web2.0, Google, Life | No Comments »

In defence of MySpace (and other “Worst Web sites”)

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

PCWorld Author Dan Tynan, starts off his “25 Worst Website” list, with what I imagine he thinks is an insightful comment: “When it comes to the Web, hindsight is more like X-ray vision”. I’m not sure if Dan is ignorant, elitist or just suffering from radiation poisoning from over-exposure to X-ray vision, but this article […]

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Posted in Rants, MySpace, youtube, Social Networking, Internet, Web2.0, PHP | 59 Comments »

Frappr now with MySpace Features

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

What started out as a simple google maps hack has turned into a full featured social networking site with some really nice features.
Since the maps are the main reason why people are at frappr, they have used this in some cool ways, for example the chat applet is integrated with the maps, so the map […]

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Posted in MySpace, Social Networking, Web2.0, Internet | 1 Comment »