May 8 2010

Who needs OneRiot?

It’s great that Sites like OneRiot who just launched their real-time search and officially exited beta can orgnanise real time Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Digg, but who needs that?

OneRiot

OneRiot

A quick look on OneRiot and it’s like looking at OK!Magazine combined with Google news and tech crunch:  Canadian beavers, Ipad, Oil spill, Will Smith’s new video, Pelin talks about who she likes, Girls Gone Wild and smoking mamas keep their babies up… Yikes!

So ok, the homepage OneRiot has chosen to go with is not very useful, but how do they fair in categories or vertical topics? Like travel? Things are suddently starting to get VERY interesting indeed! Continue reading


May 3 2010

The future? It’s social!

Last week Facebook launched Open Graph, a platform that allows sites and apps to share [Facebook] information about users in order to tailor content. Open Graph comes to compliment a series of site applications Facebook has been releasing for the past 9 months, that are all bucketed under Facebook for websites.

Facebook for websites

Facebook for websites is a suite of tools Facebook is working on, to extend their global domination outsite their domain, and into the entire web! Their key strategic areas are: Continue reading


May 2 2010

Google vs Facebook like – and some common sense

SEOmoz has done a great job at explaining how Facebook like is likely to change the web and compete with Google. Watch the video below or check SEOmoz page “Whiteboard Friday – Facebook’s Open Graph WON’T Replace Google


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