Category Archives: facebook

Rocky wuz here

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Location-based services have been hampered by the balkanization of carrier networks and a focus on mobile-only implementations. LocPoke, a new Facebook application, is a promising alternative. I’ve written before about WHERE, a location service platform that has offered GPS-based location … Continue reading →

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People tagging on Facebook

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a big proponent of geotagging. As I’ve gotten deeper into Facebook, I’ve also become a big fan of people tagging. People tagging allows you to uniquely identify people in pictures. Tagging can … Continue reading →

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Facing Facebook spam

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

One of the things I love about Facebook is that I don’t get any spam through the system. Sure, I get some friend requests from people I don’t really know and periodically get asked if I want to become a … Continue reading →

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Editing photos, as easy as pie at Picnik

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Picnik is part of a new class of Web-based photo editing tools that’s making sprucing up photos easy and fun. Picnik does a lot of the things that desktop photo editors do, but with a lot less work. The basics … Continue reading →

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Fun with photos

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I’ve been playing with some Web 2.0 photo tools this week and realizing how simple it is to make fun experiences. Here’s a slideshow I put together with Slide. This took all of three minutes. Select a theme, transition, music, … Continue reading →

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Bringing email into the 21st century

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

John McKinley, former AOL CTO and now VC, asks “Who will be the first major (Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/AOL) to break ranks and apply a fundamentally new metaphor to email?” There’s been a proliferation in ways to communicate — IM, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, … Continue reading →

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iPhone as your social network

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I had a chance earlier this week to try the new Facebook application for iPhone. The app, developed by Joe Hewitt, is a version of Facebook optimized for the iPhone. Many of the core features of Facebook are available on … Continue reading →

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comScore redefines search, Google wins bigger

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

ComScore is changing the methodology for its qSearch market share ratings. Instead of just counting search activity at the major search engines, comScore is expanding the definition of search to include searches at sites such as Wikipedia, eBay, Amazon, MySpace, … Continue reading →

Posted in aol, facebook, google, metrics, search, statistics, yahoo | 3 Comments

Why we love social networks

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

There was a comment in Paul Kedrosky’s blog last month asking about the real value of social networks: Facebook, MySpace, I don’t get it: personalize a webpage template and exchange links, I mean friendships, with people. Since I responded to … Continue reading →

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Rocky’s fun-filled day at the airport

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Yesterday was my travel day from hell. I arrived at National Airport around 11 to catch a noon flight to Philadelphia. Because of a ground stop at Philadelphia they pushed back the flight to 12:45. We boarded the bus toward … Continue reading →

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