Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed

Web Culture 22 May 2008 | View Comments

I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment. If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services into [...]

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Why Google’s Android will revolutionize cell phone usage, smartphones

Wannabe Viewpoint 8 November 2007 | View Comments

As part of my recent Zen-ifying and simplifying of life, maximizing the amount of productive time in my day, I have downgraded. I traded in my MDA for a basic Samsung candybar phone. Why would a techie downgrade? Time wasted because smartphones are not good enough for either of their fucntions today. I couldn’t justify [...]

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Facebook vs. Google: If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em–Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook Ads

Social Media,Wannabe Viewpoint 7 November 2007 | View Comments

Losing a bid to for a profitable investment to one of your major rivals is bound to be upsetting. It might even be so upsetting that you take a blood oath to destroy that investment or bend it to your will… Facebook may have missed out on the chance to be a part of Google’s [...]

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