Features What's Wrong with Facebook? When Strategy Fails to Meet Execution Over the last few weeks, Facebook has been rolling out its latest redesign. Within days of the first changes, a polling application on Facebook showed that 94% of the 634,484 users who took the poll hate the redesign, and some 1.7 million users signed a petition to bring back the old design. Author: Ravit Lichtenberg is the founder and chief… Social Ravit Lichtenberg from Ustrategy.com View comments
Google Why You Have to Use the Standalone Google Contacts Page Over the weekend, you may have heard the news about how Google finally assigned their standalone Gmail Contacts page a proper URL. Although the independent site has been available since fall of last year, it was previously somewhat hidden through an obfuscated URL. Now the site is online at google.com/contacts, a web address that's sure to… Sarah Perez View comments
News What Can Voice Do For You? Ribbit Announces Winners of KillerApps Challenge Ribbit, the VOIP platform that was bought by British Telecom last year, announced the winners of its $100,000 KillerApps challenge today. The contest was obviously meant to stimulate interest in Ribbit's APIs among developers, and judging from the line-up of winning applications, a lot of developers came up with highly creative ways of using… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Advertising Banner Exchanges Come to the iPhone: AdMob Launches Download Exchange AdMob, one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, released its Download Exchange today. In return for running ads for other apps, developers can now promote their own apps across AdMob's network of over 1,000 applications. At its core, Download Exchange is basically a more sophisticated version of the many banner and link exchange… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Skype for iPhone: It's Real and It's Spectacular I had about 3 story options on my plate to write about tonight. But I found myself constantly returning to the iTunes store and searching for Skype, over and over again. Finally, there it was: As promised by no less a personage than Om Malik himself, the official Skype iPhone client has arrived. Although video streaming is a no-show, both full IM… Phil Glockner View comments