Facebook’s new advertising model includes publication of activity from partner sites in news feeds. Their official list of affiliates does not include Yelp, but tonight, I had a little DHTML “toast” pop-up inform me my latest review would be shared on my Facebook profile.
A little investigating shows that this was pulled off via a […]
Category Archives: web
Facebook Yelps
November 18, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Spellbot
January 31, 2007 – 9:59 pm
As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limited web crawling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analysis, the sort of thing you might use Technorati to do manually until you realize just how […]
Being erased
January 28, 2007 – 9:17 pm
Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a […]
Twitter is the new finger
January 24, 2007 – 10:41 pm
Back in the day, we used to leave a small file named .plan in our Unix home directories, which others could read over port 79 with the finger command. It was a useful for quick status updates, to find out what people were working on (or where they were off to) without pestering them. […]
Social data mining
December 5, 2006 – 3:25 pm
Swivel, previewed on TechCrunch, looks to be the coolest new web service idea since Mechanical Turk. This is one of those rare ideas that illicit a reaction not of “oh, neat” but rather “if I was half as smart as I like to think, I would’ve thought of that.”
Seppuku 2.0
September 25, 2006 – 9:04 pm
Sprout Commerce has figured out how to commit suicide in the Web 2.0 ecosystem.
Immediately after Pete Cashmore’s glowing review in April I began using MyPickList to manage my wishlists, rather than using the “buy” tag in del.icio.us as I had before (and limiting myself to items that have records on Amazon.com is so Web 1.0).
Imagine […]
Meat-based web services
August 25, 2006 – 3:25 pm
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of the most interesting new business models this year. The concept of a task-completion marketplace is not too innovative, but their model of qualifications and exposure of web services certainly piques my interest. Only time will tell if they can fill their chessboard with enough Schlumbergers to keep […]
ad:tech Monday wrap-up
July 24, 2006 – 5:41 pm
Henry Copeland (BlogAds) observation: “staid Midwestern brands” seem to have an easier time adopting podcasts than blogging… it’s easier to broadcast than dialogue. I agree, except I don’t think this is a uniquely Midwestern experience.
Jared Spool was the only presenter that knows how to present.
Susan Chiu from Octanti reminds me of the grad students […]
Disruption
July 24, 2006 – 1:52 pm
Avenue A | Razorfish hosted a lunch panel (“Disruptive Technology for Fun and Profit”) with some of their own big brains and a Google rep to discuss all the “new” stuff, especially social media. Might not have had much for me to learn, but it was refreshing to finally hear from someone who gets […]
