Unbelievable! Facebook Acquires FriendFeed!

TechCrunch broke the story and has recently been confirmed.  Let the discussions begin…

What’s the Future of our Web Interactions?

Facebook has recently rolled out an update to its popular IM system, FbChat.  It allows users to incorporate their customized “Friend Lists” on the chatting platform.  With this update, Facebook now allows users the ability to appear either online or offline to a select group of their friends.  A small, but useful update for those [...]

140 Characters Soon Forgotten?

How simple is too simple?  Does simplicity facilitate usability?  Do we sacrifice effectiveness for usability?  I start to ask myself these questions as I log on to twitter.com with far less frequency as once before.  Will this 140-character revolution continue on its meteoric rise, or will it become a nostalgic web property of the past?
I [...]

How Facebook May Become More Like MySpace

It almost pains me to use MySpace in the title, seeing how much I dislike the service.  In any event, there is something to be said about Facebook’s new “direction”, and how they may be moving towards a product offering similar to that of the mighty content clusterf–k, otherwise known as MySpace.  I’m talking more [...]

Solving Problems vs. Creating Solutions

So you have your business idea.  How do you know if it’s a viable one?  According to most venture capitalists (VCs), there is an initial set of guidelines or preliminary questions in which your idea must fulfill or answer.  You can bet that on the top of that list, the following question will appear:

“Do you [...]

Pirates of Silicon Valley [Part 2.0]

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”
-Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832)
There is an obvious trend that exists within today’s internet-based businesses.  Companies are “stealing” other companies’ ideas, concepts, and functionality.  Well, stealing may not be the most accurate description.  I believe the term borrowing may better sum up what is actually happening.  In any [...]

What Twitter has that Facebook Doesn’t

After recently rejecting Facebook’s $500 million buyout proposal, micro-blogging phenomenon, Twitter has moved forth acquiring and hiring former O’Reilly CTO Rael Dornfest. This adds fuel to the debate on whether Facebook and Twitter are rivals competing for the same online attention, or if they are instead, two totally independent online communication / information outlets. [...]

Is Money Power? Myspace vs. Facebook

Myspace has announced that they are on course to achieve $1B in revenue this year. This comes at a time where chief competitor, Facebook has surpassed Myspace in overall web traffic, but is looking at numbers far lower than $1B. In fact, Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the fact that “cashing in” on social [...]