DISQUS

Great photo! San Francisco has a fascinating historical cityscape.

I think I heard that some of the Facebook engineers were impressed by Plaxo's script ;)

The headline, which I read wrong at first, suddenly made me wonder if the age of the average San Franciscan is dropping due to all of the 20somethings moving in to work in the tech industry.

@Dan Birdwhistell

Plaxo WAS using OCR to scrape these email addresses. I just wrote about that here (sorry to link-spam in the comment section, Scoble):

http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/03/i-was-about-t...

Plaxo was literally going to run this service for me this morning -- they told me how useful it [was] for you. Then I woke up to see today's news.

Not sure if I'm going to run it or not....

I understand Facebook's position, but I sure would like all my friends' contact info in one place.

I'm almost certain that the social network in Turkey is Xuqa.

Pithy post, Dan.

Touche, Nick.

I've never heard of Myspace being used for business networking, except by starving musicians. Myspace basically isn't a contender when it comes to social networking for professionals.

Imho, business social networking has the most opportunity for growth, as work-related social connections are integrated into the software you use in the office. LinkedIn is in the best position to execute on that.

Also, Myspace's strategy is disorganized. First they did their own big announcement about their platform. Then they said, "guys, we were actually part of Open Social the whole time -- get it!" And it's still not clear what app could be a big deal. Sure, Slide and RockYou and some other companies will exploit it.... but what are we talking about here, a universal Food Fight? :)

To be honest, this publication broke the embargo last night so I published:

http://www.labnol.org/internet/office/use-onlin...

I've just spoken with iLike about their pages: They took some of their pages off the site temporarily due to an internal bug. Those pages will be back up. Facebook hadn't taken any action.

We agree. I should have been clearer: Top app developer companies have many reasons to join OpenSocial. This is one of them.

Good call!

That's "somebody set up us the bomb," not "us up".... all your blog are belong to us.

Take a look at Cake Financial. It might be to your liking.

I've been thinking about switching back, too.

I almost got Matt to switch to Gmail, but now that he's using Xobni....

I got so sick of having FF crash on me all the time that I switched to Camino -- and haven't looked back. http://www.caminobrowser.org/

I especially like the last point:

"What can beat Facebook’s openness? Radical openness that doesn’t attempt to tie the user to any particular site. That, however, doesn’t seem to offer a great revenue opportunity."

OpenID needs to become more transparently useful to people, too. Right now most aren't getting it like they get Facebook.

I was just thinking the same thing! But what about The Washington Post launching its own local site at around the same time?

Auspicious timing. Er.

Great find!