Social Media, Tech Opinion

Facebook Is No Threat To Friendfeed

A tweet by Lee Sherman just noted the following: Facebook’s lifestream is a real threat to FriendFeed. It’s easy to add web services, much harder to recreate the social graph everywhere. However, I’d have to disagree with Sherman for three reasons: demographics, different uses, and a closed community. Different Uses Due to the demographics of […]

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Social Media

Facebook Helping Mass Adoption?

News is spreading quickly about Facebook’s newest enhancement to their Newsfeed. According to the Facebook blog: Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren’t Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes […]

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Social Media

Myspace or Facebook Course?

While reading a CNN article about the Facebook course being offered at Stanford, I came across this quote that read “I’d never take a class on Myspace.” I find that to be very interesting, so I pose the question of which class would you take, assuming both were being offered? Myspace or Facebook?

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Apps & Tools, Social Media

Get Gmail In Your Facebook Inbox

Fmail is the latest Facebook app to make it’s way through the tech pipelines. You can do just about anything that’d you do in Gmail, through this one application. Awesomesauce! However, Orli Yakuel of Go2Web2 brings up a really interesting point: Though it seem very useful, I would be more comfortable with Fmail if it […]

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