Features
- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Category Archives: Social Networking
Weekly Download #14: Kindles, WebOS, Whitman, Social Media, iPhone Event Preview
Tarun and Chris discuss the new additions to the Kindle family; a potential for Amazon to use WebOS in their upcoming tablet devices; Meg Whitman’s appointment as HP’s CEO; social media and friendship. They also preview the iPhone 5 event … Continue reading
Defining Life with Social Media
Social media has done it’s part in bringing you closer to others almost instantly, but has left people pondering some fundamental questions about friends, connections, and conversations. How can these terms be more informed by the social media sites we use today? Should the social media sites like Facebook and Twitter help enhance our web experience with the information they have, or should a service be built on top of these technologies a better solution? Continue reading
Posted in Design, Facebook, Features, Social Networking, Twitter
Tagged friends, services, socialmedia
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Weekly Download #13: Windows 8, Yahoo, iPhone Carriers, Qwikster, Google+, Foursquare, Safari v. Chrome
Woah, it has been a while! Chris and Tarun discuss Windows 8; Yahoo! and the ousting of Carol Bartz; iPhone carriers of the future; Netflix’s terrible decision making; Google+’s opening up to the public; Foursquare hitting a billion check-ins; Safari v. Chrome … Continue reading
Link: Foursquare Hits 1 Billion Check-Ins →
The pithy, casual language in Foursquare’s post makes this even more awesome.
Posted in Social Networking
Tagged billion, checkin, foursquare
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Weekly Download #11: Tablets and the iPad, Future of HP & Motorola, Facebook’s Privacy, More iPhone Carriers, Lift, Torrenting, Cookies
It’s another Weekly Download with your favorite hosts, Tarun Gangwani and Chris Robbins. This follows #10 which covered Steve Jobs’ resignation. Chris and Tarun discuss Apple’s tablet incumbency and what makes a good mobile computer; the futures of Motorola and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Business, Design, Facebook, Google, HP, Mobile, News, Podcast, Social Networking, Twitter, WebOS
Tagged podcast, tablets, wd
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Link: Revisiting Milgram’s Thought Experiment →
With the advent of Facebook and faster communication, it makes sense that the number of steps has decreased since Milgram’s original conjecture. I personally picked up someone from Budapest, but I instantly knew who to contact that may lead to … Continue reading
Link: The Real-Name Debate →
Interesting points on how having a consistent, real-world identity on the internet is almost forced as the standard on the internet, which is a turnaround from how the internet first looked: It seems to me that the larger issue in … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networking
Tagged identity, internet, socialnetworking
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Link: Jacqui Cheng on Google+ →
While this post does point out some good features of the service (circles, privacy), it doesn’t explain why I should begin using it regularly. The advantage of posting more than 140 more characters is also the service’s main problem — … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, Social Networking, Twitter
Tagged ars, google+, socialnetworking
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Link: How to Keep People Engaged with Google+ →
Google+ is surging with users, but the service is lacking some key features to keep users engaged. Tarun talks about three main features that Google could implement to make the new social network “sticky”. Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Features, Google, Social Networking, Twitter
Tagged googleplus, mgsiegler, socialnetworking
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Link: Reflections on Privacy →
Jaimie Murdock: My ideal publishing model wouldn’t be about circles of people, but streams of tagged content. If there existed a service where you could follow a person, but mute certain content streams (such as local events, politics, etc.), we’d … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Social Networking
Tagged googleplus, privacy, socialmedia
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Link: Mobage →
Mobage sounds like the complete package to get Games onto Android with ease. They provide: An SDK to develop the games An API to connect social media to your game A service to deploy your game to Android Sounds like … Continue reading
Link: Politics and Social Media →
The power of social media is literally in every segment of our lives now. Politics is no exception to this. Campaigns all across the country are trying to figure out how to effectively use social media. More than seven in … Continue reading
Link: Exactly This →
MG Siegler: Of course, we can rest-assured knowing that Twitter is very likely are not this foolish. After being in business for a full five years, they must know by now that their strength is not to mimic every just-launched … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Social Networking, Twitter
Tagged googleplus, scoble, twitter
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Link: Look Who Decided to Join the Party →
Known as Tulalip (also the name of a group of Native American tribes near Redmond), the project promises to help users “find what you need and share what you know easier than ever” — which, at this early stage, is … Continue reading
Link: Spotify Comes to the US →
Spotify is now officially available in the US. This service may have people rethinking some of the other streaming services that are currently up and coming. Spotify offers 15 million different tracks that can be played in an offline mode. … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile, Music, Social Networking
Tagged google music, music, pandora, spotify, streaming
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Link: Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. →
Paul Adams: Google values technology, not social science. (Thanks, Leo!)
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Link: The VideoChatting Madness →
With all of the recent talk about video chatting I felt it was important to give the readers close comparison between all of the services that are currently out there. We have talked about many of these services in the … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iOS, Social Networking
Tagged facebook, facetime, Google Hangout, skype, social networking, video, video chatting, videochat, youtube
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Link: What MySpace’s Tom Anderson Thinks of Google+ →
Tom Anderson: My original vision for MS was that everything got better when it was social–so I tried to build all the super popular things used on the web (blogs, music, classifieds, events, photos) on top of MySpace’s social layer. … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, Social Networking
Tagged google, googleplus, mashable, myspace, tom anderson
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Link: MySpace Sold for 6% of its Purchase Price →
In just six years, MySpace seems to have dwindled down a substantial amount. When News Corp bought the company in 2005 they paid $580 million for the social networking site. It was just announce that Specific Media is buying MySpace … Continue reading
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The Answer to Facebook
“When one stands on the tallest mountain, all of the others seem small.” How can Facebook’s monumental incumbency be overthrown, and what does it take to create a successor to the social network? Continue reading
Link: Google+ →
Google’s supposed answer to Facebook. Keep in mind, the last time they tried a foray into the social media world ended up being a disaster. But, if anyone has the user base to pull it off, it is this firm.