997TT_Cab + a YOSnF8 World Beyond Social Media Saturday
25c here today so it would be perfect for some top down bart-nega captured "Lovely Porsche 997 Turbo Cabrio" as he titled his photo. But as all I need to really achieve is from A (sitting in front of imac google reading) to B (coffee shop in Balnarring 8 minute drive away) I dont really need a 997 TT Cab, but doesnt mean I dont want one. What do we put ourselves thru business for anyway ? Gladiators survival of the fittest ? Family and spawn ? Bunkered Compounds ?
Um anyway, Steven Hodson is having a similar end of week 'Wow There Is A World Beyond Social Media' blog post : "Social media might be a really cool idea and all the services being built around the concept might be fun but when it comes right down to it in the larger scheme of how the web is used it is only a bit player. Even within the tech blogosphere social media is a small percentage of what is being written and talked about. The problem is that once you step into the world of social media one can very easily be convinced that it is the end all be all of our online lives. It doesn’t matter that even today web companies centering their fortunes around social media which have nothing better than the Emperor’s newest suit for business models we are suppose to herald all because they are free."
Yahoo obviously feel quite different to Steve and think social media via their Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS) can save the world via Webware - "First is a collection of social APIs that let programmers use data such as a Yahoo user's address book contacts, status messages, profile information, and news feed items. Second is the Yahoo Application Platform (YAP), which will be used to write the applications that actually will run on Yahoo Web pages. YAP has some similarities to the OpenSocial project initially begun by Google but now supported by several others, including Yahoo. The first Yahoo property to get the application support will be a redesigned profile page, a "control panel" site where people can record personal information, update their status, and see their social connections, Sample said. "We're going to get to the point where all our profiles can start coalescing so you have the concept of a single identity on Yahoo."
Facebook is trying a similar hand (but with more chance of success due to the carrots), by adding cash to the API's - Caroline McCarthy reports : "Facebook is moving to the next step of its $10 million FBFund developer grant program, the company announced Friday in a blog post by employee Catherine Lee. The first round, announced early in August, is now closed, and 25 winning proposals will be announced on September 22; 5 final winners will be chosen out of all first-round winners who apply for the second round, and winners will wind up with grant money between $25,000 and $250,000."
Watching : Latest Ep of Secret Diary of Billy "Hannah" Piper. Now its definitely coffee time...
Um anyway, Steven Hodson is having a similar end of week 'Wow There Is A World Beyond Social Media' blog post : "Social media might be a really cool idea and all the services being built around the concept might be fun but when it comes right down to it in the larger scheme of how the web is used it is only a bit player. Even within the tech blogosphere social media is a small percentage of what is being written and talked about. The problem is that once you step into the world of social media one can very easily be convinced that it is the end all be all of our online lives. It doesn’t matter that even today web companies centering their fortunes around social media which have nothing better than the Emperor’s newest suit for business models we are suppose to herald all because they are free."
Yahoo obviously feel quite different to Steve and think social media via their Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS) can save the world via Webware - "First is a collection of social APIs that let programmers use data such as a Yahoo user's address book contacts, status messages, profile information, and news feed items. Second is the Yahoo Application Platform (YAP), which will be used to write the applications that actually will run on Yahoo Web pages. YAP has some similarities to the OpenSocial project initially begun by Google but now supported by several others, including Yahoo. The first Yahoo property to get the application support will be a redesigned profile page, a "control panel" site where people can record personal information, update their status, and see their social connections, Sample said. "We're going to get to the point where all our profiles can start coalescing so you have the concept of a single identity on Yahoo."
Facebook is trying a similar hand (but with more chance of success due to the carrots), by adding cash to the API's - Caroline McCarthy reports : "Facebook is moving to the next step of its $10 million FBFund developer grant program, the company announced Friday in a blog post by employee Catherine Lee. The first round, announced early in August, is now closed, and 25 winning proposals will be announced on September 22; 5 final winners will be chosen out of all first-round winners who apply for the second round, and winners will wind up with grant money between $25,000 and $250,000."
Watching : Latest Ep of Secret Diary of Billy "Hannah" Piper. Now its definitely coffee time...
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