Category — Opinion

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by invitations from friends on Facebook asking you to try new apps?

Especially if you’ve got a huge friends list, you might be plagued by that problem, as is my pal Andy Wibbels, who says:

I have over ninety invites from friends to add little widgets and thingies to my profile. I really don’t want to junk it all up. But I have to click each one separately. That sucks.

He’s got a solution though: Facebook should make it so you can batch delete the app invites. I think that’s pretty smart and definitely would be a value adding feature. What do you think–could anyone else use this as a new feature?

Social platforms are playing a huge role in the political world, both for the voters trying to gather information or express opinions, and also for candidates who wish to get their two cents out to their younger, web savvy constituents.

No longer can anyone use the excuse “I didn’t vote because I didn’t have enough information about the candidates.” The truth is the information we have is bubbling over.

Which candidates are the most tech savvy?

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Simon Owens has had it with MySpace and has declared January 30 “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day”.

If you’ve experiences the annoyances of MySpace, you probably don’t need much convincing to delete your account, but in case you’re still teetering on the verge, Simon’s outlined his main motivators for giving MySpace the boot:

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ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Social Search Platform Company Mahalo is growing. This news comes as no suprise to me. First off Mahalo will do what Wikia can not do. If you aren’t familiar Wikia is Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia’s search engine platform which is also social in that users, and potentially companies, and businesses have influence over how search results get served up. Consider this search engine democracy.

I think the vast resources that Mahalo has backing it, plus the huge head start will allow Mahalo to be a bigger player in Social Search than Wikia ever could be. Also I dont see Wikia utilizing bloggers and the blogging community to reach out to the greater evangelising audience which is something that Mahalo has been really good at.

It will be interesting to see both of them grow regardless.