Sharing recent tweets with blog readers.

MessageDance FatBird does a smart url expansion creating a rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures automatically. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file as we render a player

Testing apnews.com story blog to wordpress blog

Apnews.com can change citizen journalism as we know it. I am sharing this news article from iPhone using apnews.com.
Update: added pictures using browser client.
User interface optimized for publishing and sharing news stories will win.

Midwest copes with floods, East warned of heat Announced on WWDC. [...]

Reblog from Google Reader and blog from Gmail

Blogging is time consuming. Folks who have interesting things to say are super busy. It's good to see more innovation in making blog posting more efficient and time saving.  I have talked about in the past why blogging tools have to evolve to make blog posting simple and distributed. In order to make blogging simple [...]

Big social media opportunity lies in increasing the size of creators.

It's always refreshing to see  good discussion on the big picture. Fred Wilson started this thread sharing his social media vision.
"every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet."

This vision is brilliant in it's simplicity but it's a big shift in the grand scheme [...]

Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers

Kenneth Chang has written a wonderful story on how Phoenix Lander team is using Twitter.

Dave posted about this development yesterday on Tuesday. Followers take off has been rapid.
I am glad this news demonstrates how new technology is helping NASA connect with younger audience. NASA looks cool and Twitter looks useful to the [...]

Six Apart matches Akismet offer. Announces AntiSpam plugin.

Competition is a good thing for end users. Innovations in key blog authoring tools had hit a slow patch. Things are beginning to look different now.
Today Six Apart announced TypePad AntiSpam plugin for both TypPad and Wordpress blogs. This is a great news and it should be welcomed for multiple reasons.
First of all it’s open [...]

TechCrunch says Facebook to go Open Source!

I like the sound of it. I have been selling virtues of open source strategy for some time and I know it works.
Facebook will have a convincing claim for leadership in emerging internet operating system if they let other developers run with significant chunk of social networking shell. Shell which hosts all social graph processing. [...]

Techmeme is now Rated R - Let the killing begin.

First I thought I will put  picture from Roland Joffe's classic The Killing Fields. I realized that will be offending to some people so I thought why not just emphasize what is burning in my eyes. I mean burning when I scan Techmeme from top to bottom.
Few disclaimers to start with. I have big [...]

Implicit Web, Interface for Telling and Atomization of Conversations - Recipe for OMG

Trying to understand evolving signals around silent web. Web which we users leave behind when we share our profile data, friends information and information related to transactional experience.  I think something significant is just around the corner. These signals are coming up in memes such as Implicit Web, Atomization of conversations, Interface for telling and [...]

Facebook decided to block Google’s FriendConnect

Charlie Cheever from Facebook has hurled first real bomb in closely observed attempts by  social networking platforms to "open up".  Data portability promise got first reality check of ToS violation.

Facebook spent couple of days brainstorming on Google's "grand design" and came to conclusion that it's better to block them right away. So no Google [...]