The New York Times has an article on the downfall of friendster. It traces Friendster through the fabled Google buyout offer, numerous CEOs, and dwindling traffic. In the article most of the blame is aimed at high-profile investors and board-members for not recognizing Friendster's performance issues and paying more attention to what potential competitors were doing. I was a fairly early Friendste

BITPORTERS ltd. The Personal Blog of Andrew McTeer, a C# / ASP.net developer from Ottawa, Ontario Read more » Disclaimer - I am not affiliated with Amazon, Amazon Web Services or Amazon Mechanical Turk in any way — this is just an idea on how they can change their existing service. This post is an “out there” idea based on top of Amazon Mechanical Turk (don’t bother reading this is until you kno

The post that Nat made this morning about Mark Lucovsky and the Google AJAX search API has some wonderful backstory. Mark is just a fascinating guy, and has a unique perspective on how platforms are changing. He's a big thinker, and has a great way of capturing the fundamental differences between developing for a web 2.0 platform like Google vs. a PC platform. I wanted to share some of the comment

A few weeks ago I had lunch with the now famous "Mark Jen". I never knew Mark while we were at Microsoft, even though we both worked in the same group. Funny how large groups at Microsoft can get... We had a great Google style lunch at a sunny table in Mountain View. I was too dense to notice that Mark was doing research for his blog. One thing he said got me thinking... Something that many have s

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Below is my first draft transcript of Ray Ozzie's session at ETech, "Simple Bridge Building". My apologies to Ray for any typos, but the session was so amazing I thought everyone should see it ASAP. Ray Ozzie at ETech, March 7 2005 If you saw what we were working on last fall with tsimple sharing extensions to RSS, you know that I'm pumped up with the potential for RSS to be the DNA for wiring the

Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. This complaint follows a common pattern we've seen with MUDs, BBSes, and online com

The Mysteries of X-GOOGLE-TOKEN and why it matters February 4, 2006 @ 4:42 pm · Filed under Hacks and such, Tech Those of you that have with me from the beginning (yes, both of you) will remember (or not) this post about Google Talk, and how it works. I also sorta kinda promised i’d put up some more info about it later. Well, later is now. As has been discussed all over the internet, besides PLA

NAVIGATION README Instructions About VGMap Download How to use Tech Support Make a Donation Who's using VGMap Credits About Eyebeam LIVE VGMaps NYC Subway Map Example: Lat/Lon grid TECH SUPPORT No Sourceforge project or forums yet, so email me: mfrumin@eyebeam.org CREDITS/THANKS This is a project by Eyebeam R&D It was conceived and executed by Michael Frumin, R&D Technical Director at Eye

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