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I get this feeling that there are a lot of industries that don’t truly understand the sheer magnitude of social media. There are tons of industries where we rely on social connections in real life to either facilitate or enhance the business transactions, it seems only logical to extend this to the web. Granted this [...]

Let me preface this post by saying I dislike the versioning of the web, especially the “Web2.0” term, however I do feel the web has gone through evolutionary stages. Also for all intents and purposes, this historical analysis starts in 1995.  This post is inspired by a chat that Alex and I had last fall, [...]

I waited a week before writing this, why? Well I was busy, and I wanted things to settle a  bit before I kicked up the dust again. But the AOL buy of Bebo is a much bigger deal than we are all realizing or giving AOL credit for. So the $850 Million might seem like [...]

After being struck with a bit of insomnia, I noticed Pownce was finally out of private beta mode. Aside from finally opening up, something they should have done 3+ months ago, they’ve also thrown in a bunch of viral features that make them a viable tool.
The only new feature I found interesting was that they [...]

If you’re looking at the landscape for social networks, social media, and are feeling a bit overwhelmed, don’t be worried, its easy to get lost in the mess.
First thing first, decide what countries/regions you want to grow in. You might be thinking, but Brian, why would I care to look anywhere other than english speaking [...]

So word bouncing around the echo chamber this morning is that Robert Scoble’s Facebook account was yanked last night because he was using a bot to do something with his facebook account. This bot he had developed and used is a blatant violation of the FB terms of use, so it was probably only [...]

I remember getting all excited late last year about Virb, the social network that emerged from the guys at neubix/purevolume. This was supposed to be the anti-myspace with its CSS support and clean designs. So where are they now? compete says under 80,000 users a month vs 5 million on hi5 or bebo.
Does this [...]

The big news out there today is that bebo has announced their new platform will be facebook compatible. This was quickly followed by news that Facebook is opening up the architecture of their platform to everyone else.
So what does this mean? It means Bebo has some smart people working there who know a good thing [...]

Facebook posted late last night that they were opening up their canvas pages to search robots in an effort to make facebook more accessible to the masses who still do not have facebook accounts. This is a significant move on their part, for multiple reasons: 1. it turns on the power of millions and millions [...]

So hopefully you’ve caught wind of the $240,000,000 that Microsoft invested in Facebook today, if not you can read about it everywhere else. So aside from the mind blowing $15 Billion valuation, what does this mean to you and me? Well probably more to me than you, but I digress. Essentially this means two [...]