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Ever wondered how you can still create a successful social network considering that Facebook entirely dominate’s the space ? Well the answer is to integrate with Facebook and leverage its login system and large audience to your advantage as social dating website Thread has done. Thread CEO Brian Phillips explains just how it works in [...]

. . . i would not create my own registration system. Instead i would just have Facebook Connect and Twitter OAuth as the only registration/login options. For users, it’s so quick & easy and, best of all, pretty much everyone in the (English) speaking world has one of these accounts. For good measure i’de probably [...]

The other day I wrote about what it could mean for consumer marketing if Facebook opened up its conversation stream the way Twitter has done. Essentially it would allow companies to tap into not only the actions but also the thoughts of target consumers. Obviously unbelievable and somehow eerily futuristic, yet it’s happening now. In [...]

The more i think about it the more i realize that marketing will completely change over the next years. The floodgates were opened by Summize, the first real advanced search engine for twitter which was then bought out by Twitter and turned into search.twitter.com.
Being able to search in real-time through the conversations of Twitter’s 9 [...]

I feel like i’m just re-posting Scoble videos, but he really is producing the best ’startup’ interviews out there so it’s hard not to. In this interview, he speaks with Peter Yared, CEO of iWidgets, a powerful widget creation platform that produces native code for each social network it supports.

Looks like some excellent thinking & [...]

This video by Scoble is a great explenation on how you can filter your Twitter friends by using FriendFeed to group people according to their importance to you as well as subscribing to particular keyword searches.

An interview by Grant Robertson catching up with Elias Bizannes, co-founder of DataPortability.org - working towards standards for internet interoperability.

SXSW 2009 : Catching up with Data Portability from Download Squad on Vimeo.

Twitter is getting bigger all the time and it’s slowly starting to trickle down beyond just early adopters. But so many people use Twitter in the wrong way. A few examples include people who just joined twitter but are already following 1500 people and have almost no followers back. It’s because they didn’t take their [...]

You don’t own anything on the web the way you own your own blog. All your content on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc. is subject to these companies a) staying in business and b) not deleting or suspending your account. In effect, you have little ownership and security over your content. This won’t be like this [...]

At Alensa we recognized over a year ago that the combination of social networks with retail platforms could result in something more than the sum of its parts. Gartner is coming to the same conclusion now in its latest recommendations for retailers.