Analysis Facebook: What If More Is Less? In our recent post, MySpace: Hot or Not?, we took a look at the social networking giant to understand what's going on with the site. We found that while 'MySpace' is slowing down as a trend, the site is alive and kicking and people are actively communicating (although some communication is focused on fairly questionable topics). While doing… Alex Iskold View comments
Real World From the Dept. of What Took So Long: MySpace Moves to Stop Spam MySpace may have saved itself from being absolutely intolerable today when it added an option to require a CAPTCHA entry before sending a friend request. Every one's friend Tom announced a host of changes to MySpace this afternoon, most of which were aesthetic and likely to be of consequence only to serious MySpace users. For the rest of us who… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
mobile Google Acquires Mobile Communication Company Zingku The Google-sleuths at Google Operating System broke the news this afternoon that mobile startup Zingku has been acquired by Google. Zingku provides all kinds of content sharing and alert services for mobile users. The company appears to have been founded 2 years ago in Middlesex, Massachusetts and never left private beta. Based in part on the… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Social Networks Tip: Gmail Can Be a Social Network Aggregator So we remain split on whether to call it a "social graph," but one thing I think we can all agree on, is that many of us are suffering from social network overload. Facebook, and MySpace, and LinkedIn, and Twitter, and Digg, and del.icio.us, and... oh my. We each only have so much attention to give and it can be hard to keep up with all our of… Social Josh Catone View comments
Semantic Web Dapper Launching Semantic Ad Technology Dapper, the Israeli founded super-tool that "creates an API for any website" is looking to make the transition from useful service to viable business with the release of DapperAds, the company's new ad serving technology. What Dapper Does Dapper's basic service, found at Dapper.net, is essentially a screen scraper with a point and click… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments