I’ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, Appfrica, so I haven’t blogged much lately but there’s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.
The biggest is the announcement that Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005! This is [...]
The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku…
Jaiku is joining Google. While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting [...]
From what I’ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas. It’s no surprise, then, that the Gmail team is rolling out a javascript applet that allows customers to try out these new features.
It’s the new beta test model, where the [...]
In my post “Adobe Realizes it Gaffed”, I talked about some of the ways in which Adobe missed opportunities to capitalize with web based ventures. Well it looks like that argument was correct and the Adobe team is actively trying to catch up. On the heels of the announcement of Photoshop Express, Adobe [...]
WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it’s members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations.
They do this by hosting contests sponsored by donors that need a job completed, but who are also willing to donate money to a good cause. [...]
For the life of me I can’t figure out why more businesses still don’t see the value of offering free wifi internet connectivity to customers. I wrote about this once before but I think it deserves more attention. While, using Free Wifi hasn’t been proven to be a conclusive way to increase business, the [...]
I had to share this, it’s from a conference a friend of mine attended. She shared the slides with me and for some reason I found this especially hilarious. It’s a timeline showing how social media measures up against the history of civilization. Click the image to see it larger.
This article discusses some interesting revenue model ideas for the Twitter team. In Ten Ways Twitter Could Appeal to Joe Average I touch upon ways that Twitter or it’s developers could bring ‘the average’ computer user into the Twitter fold.
I really like the Tiered Model idea of paying more to get rid [...]
I’ve been using FriendFeed for about three months now, and I like it but I can’t help but feel a little underwhelmed. One of the big pluses for most people is that it decentralizes blog conversations allowing people to interject comments into your Lifestream. But it’s this very feature that makes me not [...]
In the past twelve months I’ve received as many serious job offers from various places around the country. There was the call from Microsoft’s XBox division looking for interactive audio developers, the start up web video company looking for a UI developer, the real estate company looking for a web and video expert, the [...]
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