Mahalo is a Human-powered search engine or a social search engine. It has developed some new features (Mahalo Social) which will help users to keep in touch with your social profiles on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Pownce, StumbleUpon, Digg and your blog.
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Tags: Mahalo, Social Network, Search Engine
So Facebook recently (25th Jan 2008) allowed its application developers to include apps to their website.
What does that mean ?
I’ll try and explain this using a simple example. I once built a light weight facebook application called 2wentysbook. Now I can add that to my Facebook profile or my website
Using Facebook’s latest Javascript library I [...]
My inspiration for this blog comes from two sources:
Boohoo: Book written by the founder of a company called Boo, which raised $135 million over 18 months and then went bust
James Eder: Founder of Studentbeans.com who I met at LSE
The reason why I think Boo.com went bust was, lack of financial management and no focus on [...]
Earlier I covered how there are 2 Facebook Chat clients: Social.im and FriendVox. Social.im is a PC (now available on a Mac too) application where users can chat to all their Facebook friends.
I came across another Facebook chat called Imo.im. The difference here is that IMO allows text and video chat, further users can log [...]
You could see a very nervous Jack and me standing at Bedford station, as we could hear nervous brokers speaking loudly on their mobiles.
Image from the Guardian
I found some interesting articles if you were nervous about the stock market recession fears:
Who Cares If Corporate Valuations Are Crazy?
Apple plunges as outlook disappoints
Turns out it wasn’t as [...]
Started in September 2006. MTV is now pulling the plug on its User Generated Channel Flux, 1st Feb 2008 onwards. Flux community controls what goes on MTV. The more views a user gets, the more chances to be seen on TV.
So people are encouraged to upload stuff which would interests others.
I’m still not sure why [...]
Earlier I blogged how social.im built a facebook chat which required users to download software. Today I discovered a Facebook chat which uses Ajax and is completely browser based.
FriendVox.com developed by London based Techlightenment, specializing in Facebook applications. These are the guys who built the Bob Dylan Application, Socialistics
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Let me give you a quick over view of Voxswap. The site is still in its early stages and allows users to learn a new language with the help of the community.
There are chat, search features so you can quickly find people who can help you out and have a conversation. The site is targeted [...]
In Oct last year I wrote how MySql is getting ready for an IPO. Today Cnet reported that Sun Microsystems has bought MySQL, the most popular open source database ,for $1bn.
The deal is $800 million in cash and the rest in stock options. Its a little bit of a surprise considering the ties Sun [...]
Paypal has added an application it calls the badge, which allows friends on your facebook profile to pay you cash. Paypal claims that its a great way to raise money (donation) and pay you back.
I can see how it can be an awesome application to raise money for charity. Not sure if its as useful [...]