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Facebook Connect Push

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Michael Arrington of Techcrunch posted an article about Facebooks recent push of their Connect platform announcing that today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services […]

Facebook Extends it’s Reach

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There was a great article in the New York Times today about Facebook Connect.  In case you missed it, I have quoted it below.  To check out the article in it’s entirety on the New York Times website, click here… PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook, the Internet’s largest social network, wants to let you take […]

WordPress 2.7 RC1

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If you are feeling brave, WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download by the general public.  As many of you are aware 2.7 features a redesign of the backend user interface.  I have been following the progress of this project on an almost nightly basis and it’s pretty nice.  I am not […]

Wal-Mart Website Issues

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I was out of state visiting family over the holidays but still managed to catch wind of this one on CNBC black friday.  It appears that Wal-Mart’s website went down due to heavy traffic and slow pageload times. There are no estimates as to how much revenue was lost during the outage but with wal-mart.com […]

Cyber Monday

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Did you know that 84% of online retailers will be running major promotions today (the Monday following Thanksgiving)?  Due to the  economic downturn we find ourselves in this holiday season some of these retailers are depending on strong holiday sales for their mere survival.  It is for this reason I think that this years online […]

MySpace Profile 2.0

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This weekend I took the opportunity to play with MySpace Profile 2.0 and I have to admit it’s not half bad.  MySpace is still a far cry in terms of social networking compared to Facebook in my opinion but the innovations that I have seen in Profile 2.0 could help it earn a little bit […]