Social browsing is a loosely defined phrase that means many things to different people. Because of the confusion about what social browsing is, people have strongly differing opinions about its relevance. Some think that social browsing is nothing new, others believe it will be the next big thing, while still others believe that social browsing is a market doomed to fail.

To make predictions about the success of the social browsing market, you must first be able to accurately define it. To be considered social browsing, a product must contain at minimum the following prerequisites:

1) Portable
The product must ...

My guess is this has nothing to do with the phishing attacks that started on Twitter a couple of days ago. But a few minutes ago the official Fox News Twitter account posted "Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay" (referring to the host of the popular Fox show O'Reilly Factor), right after a legitimate message about making turkey lettuce wraps. My guess is they're just finding out about it now, and realizing their password, which was probably "password," has been changed. Twitter will promptly restore the account to its rightful owners, I'm sure. But here's my ...

A gremlin inside Facebook - or more likely a disgruntled employee - briefly hacked Facebook in the last few hours. They went in to the Facebook advertising page and changed the title description from “Advertising” to “Lying”. How do I know? An observant informant emailed me the screen grab before the page was changed. Nice [...]

For some reason, this weekend has seen a lot of talk about what FriendFeed is/isn't/should be doing (see Louis Gray and others). One person even predicted that we will fail.

I considered writing my own list of complaints about FriendFeed. I think and care about it a lot more than most people, so my list of FriendFeed issues would be a lot longer. I may still do that, but there's something else also worth discussing...

One of the benefits of experience is that it gives some degree of perspective. Of course there's a huge risk ...

Minnesota took until 5 PM today to begin actually counting rejected absentee ballots, as the Canvassing Board sorted through various legal objections, underwent the arduous task of physically opening more than 900 ballots, and then gave the campaigns a chance to review the back of the ballots for identifying marks. Once they finally got underway, however, with election officials calling out the names of the candidates one ballot at a time, Franken went on a long winning streak and essentially never looked back.

All told, Franken gained a net of 176 ballots from the 952 under review according to The ...

Match.com has launched a free dating service.        They picked a damn good domain name and the site looks really good.  http://downtoearth.com  Downtoearth is headed up by Jacob Solotaroff,   the former Director of Product Management and Member Integrity at Match.com.  He also writes on this blog…  http://thefraudczar.com/   On the marketing side its headed up by Steve Hammer  It looks like the [...]

We're truthfully not sure what's cooler: the fact that the above pictured washing machine tweets when it's done, or the fact that the above pictured washing machine still works. We're guessing that the geeks in the crowd would argue that it's clearly the former, and for those interested in a little proof / explanation, you can head on past the break for a video demonstration. But just so you know, it's highly unlikely that your Twittering washer will have any diehard followers.

[Via technabob]

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FreelanceSuite is an online software application that let users manage their clients and projects. The service is specifically suitable for freelancers such as designers, developers, etc. because it will give them a chance to portray a better professional image an eventually increase efficiency. To use the service, you need to get registered. Though the service is not free, the trial version is available for free for two weeks.

One of the important features of the service is Approval System, which allows users to submit their product for a review from their client and get online approval or disapproval. Also users ...

Blogging platform JournalSpace (which I'd never heard of to date) has ceased to be, following a wipe-out of the main database for which there was no back-up in place. According to the JournalSpace blog, the database was overwritten as a result of a malicious act from a disgruntled ex-employee.

It was the guy handling the IT (and, yes, the same guy who I caught stealing from the company, and who did a slash-and-burn on some servers on his way out) who made the choice to rely on RAID as the only backup mechanism for the SQL server. He had ...

I’ve been interested in the micropayment space for a long time now. I think it’s a promising market, and one that is just waiting to be addressed well. A while back I discovered a service called Tipjoy, which started as a Y Combinator funded project. I liked it the first time I saw it, and [...]