Open Letter to Google

Open Letter to Google,
Hey Google, I’m a big fan. I’ve been a loyal Googler since 2002 or so and I use just about every Google product I can fit into my life. (Except Google Video: I thought that is why you bought YouTube…why have 2 sites?) I even have an orkut profile…despite the [...]

The Great Google Strikes Again

Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with the news about Google’s upcoming foray (or perhaps more accurately: retry) into the world of social networking.  It has promised to build 2-way APIs for multiple networks that will change the way users transfer their social data on the internet by allowing multi-site access [...]

The Next Microsoft Product: Facebook Live?

The Wall Street journal is reporting that Microsoft may be in talks to buy a stake in facebook that would give the software giant a hold on up to 5% of the swiftly-growing social networking site. Such a purchase is rumored to be valued between $300-$500 million, which would value facebook at up to [...]

September 4th Web Picks

Well, after quite the weekend in Las Vegas and the recovery period that followed, I’ve managed to stop planning my return trip long enough to compile this edition of Web Picks. A couple of good sites plus a facebook application and a Google Earth ‘easter egg‘ round out this week’s list:

Natuba is a social [...]

Gmail Video: E-mail Without the Internet

About a month ago, the Gmail team over at Google released the first part of a video clip that is an imaginative way of thinking about how e-mail would be delivered without the internet: lots of smaller video clips edited together show people, animals, and all sorts of other random things transporting a Gmail logo [...]