Tag Archives: web

Beacon is Dead. Long live Facebook Connect.

Remember Facebook Beacon? It’s gone now. I’m surprised, are you? Not only that, but Facebook funding a privacy group to the tune of $9.5 million as part of their settlement. The Register has the story on how Facebook Connect has eclipsed Beacon. I expected that Facebook would keep Beacon around since they turned it opt-in. [...]

Pinboard vs Delicious: there’s room for both

Techcrunch has a pretty strong line on Pinboard. The title of their review gives it away. If you want to know a bit more about Pinboard then take a look at Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard. I’m not sure I agree. The value of social bookmarking sites is heavily rooted in the network [...]

Making sense of Bell’s twitter charges

Image via CrunchBase Update April 8th 2009: There’s a Bell autodialer reporting that Twitter charges will be refunded. I’ve been experimenting with Twitter‘s resumed SMS service in Canada. Right now it only works with Bell Mobility and, well, I’m a Bell subscriber. Twitter claims the service is free but I quickly heard reports of fifteen [...]

Jot notes from #meshU on web metrics

Here’s a dump from the monitoring talk at meshU. Slides are available. Again, formatting is a mess, this time due to OpenOffice. Watching websites Presentation by bitcurrent Used to work for a company called coradiant Roughly one third of the audience monitors their website for uptime Startup 101: New idea -> Execution -> Feedback (did [...]