Category Archives: Web 2.0

How Open Source and Social Media are going to Eat SEOs’ Lunches

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Nick Dynice

(Sphinn this)
Search engines react to behavior of its users and site owners. Search engines measures these behaviors to deliver value to each, but ultimately to serve the search engines’ best interests. At first, search engines used what they …

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The Truth Emerges: Valleywag at the TechCrunch/PopSugar Party

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Nick Dynice

What you are looking at is an ambushing of Mike Arrnington at his own party with the intention of pissing him off and creating news for Valleywag, and the real reason behind all of the drama. (Update: In …

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Drama 2.0

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Nick Dynice

My girlfriend and I attended the TechCrunch/PopSugar meetup last night. Well, Mike Arrington had to give Valleywag something to talk about. He, along with 6 bouncers escorted Bonny Pierzina, (a vlogger who was hired to photographer the event …

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Mahalo and 37 Signals: Apples and Oranges

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Nick Dynice

I am taking issue with the way Stilgherrian has characterized the working style of Jason Calacanis by comparing Mahalo to 37 Signals. Yes, they are both startups, and they are both in the “web 2.0″ space, but are …

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3 Moblogging Tools Reviewd: Twitxr, ShoZu, JuiceCaster

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Nick Dynice

For moblogging, you need to camera phone with e-mail capability. So, I just upgraded to a Motorola W490 specifically for the photo and video features. I was eager to connect it to my Flickr account. Flickr …

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You can buy technology, but not culture

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Arik Hesseldahl at Business Week has some great points for Steve Ballmer: don’t try to be all things to all people. Then you spread yourself too thin, you know, like peanut butter.

If and when this Yahoo-Microsoft deal happens, …

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An analysis of Google’s Social Graph API

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Despite the valid concerns that some have with Google’s Social Graph API, I thought I would talk about the technical possibilities. My social graph may be of particular interest becuase I had used my Wordpress blog’s XFN feature …

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Open Social Hype Hangover

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Nick Dynice

I am going over all of the posts today questioning specific parts of Open Social. While the main point is that any 3rd party apps can work on any network (aka “container”), it seems there is no set …

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Facebook to give away money to app dvelopers: FBFund

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Breaking on new Twitter right now at the TechCrunch40 conference: Jason Calacanis reports that Facebook will be funding applications developers. Frank Gruber says between $25,000 to $250,000 for any given project, and the total fund about reserved is …

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Countering Microsoft’s FUD Mongering of Software as a Service

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Read-Write Web via Mary Jo Foley at ZD Net reports that Microsoft is randomly spamming its customers to spread FUD about web apps/software as a service.
1. Google touts having enterprise level customers but how many “USERS” of their applications …

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