The web is a vast array of websites, social networks, applications and many other things. Quite simply, it’s like a gigantic solar system with planets being websites interspersed with comets, asteroids and an occasional sun. But all of that has pretty much changed with Facebook. Sure, Facebook isn’t the first social network out there, nor [...]

This past week has been a weird one in terms of technology. First there was some issues (perhaps residual) from Twitter’s downtime and then Google had issues with Gmail being down for at least a day and FourSquare having trouble yesterday and now WordPress is reporting a major security issue with its self-hosted option?
In all [...]

Breaking news coming from Silicon Valley today includes the apparent acquisition of FriendFeed by social media giant Facebook. Coverage was spread across all the major blogs, including TechCrunch, Mashable and reported on other websites like Louis Gray, Aaron Brazell and FriendFeed power user Robert Scoble.
I’m not sure if this makes much sense for FriendFeed to [...]

Last week I received a great Facebook message from Michael McCarthy and it got me thinking a bit. Essentially he’s starting his own retail business after apparently leaving Nestle USA and asked me for some insights. He was looking for some form of technology that was a “one stop marketing portal that will help manage [...]