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In an online community that depends on its users to create and share content, who are the most valuable ones? Is it the 10% who are completely addicted and constantly creating new content? Or is it the other 90% who consume the content and generate revenue? Or is just a chicken and egg problem that […]

Accepting a friend request is no longer a question of whether or not I want him or her to see my profile - it’s now a question of whether or not I care to see theirs. Lately, when I receive a friend request, I’ve begun asking myself, “Do I really care about this person’s status […]

I recently met Matt Brezina at the superfun SFBeta Bash a couple weeks ago. He is one of the (young) (hot) founders of Xobni, the add-on-app that extracts information about the most important data in your inbox - the people you’re writing to. Now I don’t know if Xobni has a business model or how […]

Well, there’s no doubt about it. The Facebook App Super Craze is full steam ahead. From developers being paid to build them, to an entire freaking conference centered around the “social graph,” it seems like Facebook is the killer app and now we’re all struggling to build the killer app on top of it. Yes, […]

When a single friend recently asked me if he should get onto Match.com or Yahoo! Personals to try to meet someone, I told him to check out Facebook instead. Yes, Facebook. My sincere apologies to Yahoo! Personals, but the fact is, social networks and online communities not only seem better equipped to help you find […]

I sat in a talk the other day by the folks from Yahoo! Music, as they presented their process for developing their Yahoo! Music Videos Facebook application. The application allows users to browse their music video catalog, share favorites, and send dedications to friends. Beyond that, it provides music recommendations based on your profile and […]

Currently, most online social networks focus heavily on one-to-many types of communication, where users “blast” messages out to their friends. This was way cool for awhile, and probably still is for anyone who’s just discovering it. But the one-to-many type of communication just doesn’t scale for most people. For most people, the bigger their network […]

Reading through the many recent articles about users’ undesired friend requests from moms and dads on Facebook and MySpace [Great post here], I’m reminded of my two favorite Seinfeld characters, “Independent George” and “Relationship George”. If you were a fan of the show, you’ll remember that Independent George is the true George, while Relationship George […]

I guess I’m not the only one in The Valley to have received a flurry of FaceBook invitations in the last week or so. Both Dave Winer and Michael Arrington have made recent posts about the “connecting” process, more specifically, this awful step: (and click to see how much worse it can get)

There are so […]

Am I the only one who feels completely awkward watching Mark Zuckerberg speak?

No. No I’m not.

I’m actually on Facebook but I hardly ever use it. And if I had to make a list of all the things I really wish I was excited about but I’m not, Facebook would probably be like #3. That being said, the Facebook Platform seems sort of interesting. Mashable has a great list of all the applications that are now available. The two that seem the most interesting to me: […]