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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 [...]

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 [...]

Metcalfe’s law states the value of the network increases exponentially with each additional node that is added. This theory was originally developed for the telecom networks to show how a telephony network’s value increases the more phones that are added. The same is true of social networks, look at myspace, its intrinsic value at [...]

The refresh movement is without a doubt one of the most unifying things going on now in the web. It might not be making the most waves in the public, but in the web design and development community it is definitely taking hold.The Refresh movement is providing a venue for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and other [...]

Just this week Facebook raised another $25 million in venture funding from Greylock, bringing their pre-money valuation to close to $525 million.  Now this indicates one of two things, either they are burning cash like CRAZY and can’t generate enough to support their big staff, OR they are looking to finance some new expansions or [...]

Social networking (you know myspace, facebook, etc.) has become one of the most popular sectors on the web lately. With traffic growing at such a fast rate, it seems like the early entrants were plagued with the lack of any previous examples to learn from. It was their missteps that created the current market for [...]