Funny that the creator of the first popular Web browser now helps run one of the most Web-unfriendly, browser-unfriendly sites on the Web. Marc Andreesen, personal mentor to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, now joins the Facebook board of directors.
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Heh. I figured Facebook’s data portability “initiative” was nothing more than panicked lip service. Today they’ve banned Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API.
Here’s the funny part: they say it’s because Google Friend Connect “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge.” Ha! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
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Mere days after the announcements of MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google comes out with a lighter but wider social network data portability initiative. Last night at the Googleplex saw the announcement of Google Friend Connect, a set of widgets that lets any site plug itself into its readers’ social graphs on multiple social […]
One of the most annoying things about maintaining a social network profile is having to manually repost updates from that profile to other services you use. Most of these social networks just don’t want to share, doing everything they can to lock their users into their little information silos.
Just as I was tediously retyping a […]
Ever seen a dead person’s MySpace account? It’s surreal. You’re merrily checking out that person’s pictures, seeing her all smiley with her friends, and then you read the comments:
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This just in from Filipina FHM cover girl Avi Siwa:
A 36 years old Turkish, I added in Facebook sent me a message today saying he wants to marry me. Of course I found it hilarious, but after more messages from him I realized he was serious.
It’s not quite a Nintendo DS proposal, but mildly geeky […]
Have you heard of Ashley Alexandra Dupre? Thanks to MySpace and the clued-in folks at the New York Times, you will.
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Note to self: do not send kids to Ryerson University. They’re a bunch of neo-Luddites.
Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower – but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.
First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study […]
Technology is a cult. Let\'s monetize cats!
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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