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Checking Out the New Plaxo, It's No Facebook Killer

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I am on Plaxo checking out the new features. I really was hoping to find a Facebook killer, but I have to say, so far all I’ve found is a mini feed clone. It does have a great interface, but after a few minutes you can see how [...]

Are Social Networks the next incarnation of the Browser Wars?

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As a developer since 1996, I have dealt with my share of writing web apps so they work well with different browsers. This has cost countless hours of unnecessary work. If the standard was followed, we may all be a little further along now.

Now, with Facebook opening [...]

Pownce API – Now it Will Get Interesting

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Pownce announced on their blog today that they will be releasing a public API. I think this will catapult them past Twitter and Jaiku. The following they have will mean a huge amount of apps available right away and I am sure some will mirror Twitter and [...]

Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

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I have spent tonight getting FancyUpload using MooTools to work with a Classic ASP upload page instead of a PHP page. The more I do stuff like this, the more I want to switch to PHP. However I did manage to find a way to [...]

Facebook? In My Day, We Used Email

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I was on Pownce for the first time this week to see if it was still kicking and there was Robert Scoble, not even 10 posts down. Now I think Robert’s great, but there must be 3 or 4 of him, because he’s everywhere. So his post [...]

Tag Your Friend, The Answer to Defining Friends on Facebook

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UPDATE (8/24/2007) : I see this post is getting a lot more attention lately. Especially from people searching how to tag friends on facebook. Clearly this is a feature people want. See: http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/08/facebooks-killer-feature/

There have been a number of people lately questioning the way Facebook allows you to define your friends. [...]

Pownce vs. Twitter

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Pownce.com is this week’s darling of the Web 2.0 World. Released recently as a closed beta, invites seem to have been very easy to come by. I have checked it out and must say the layout and features are far more advanced than Twitter. That being said, I [...]

Web 2.0 and Ajax

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I’ve been reading for months now (maybe longer) about web 2.0 and AJAX (wiki) etc. I have even added a couple of AJAX ‘functions’ to Valor’s website. I have written web apps for almost 10 years now and all the ideas I’ve wanted to implement over the years, but [...]

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