Ottawa Citizen via kwout

Its interesting how I was interviewed yesterday by the Ottawa Citizen for being the first person in Ottawa to sign up for Facebook. Facebook is truly revolutionary, no doubt about it. Any news that’s about Facebook these days is big news. It seems that over a quarter of Ottawa’s population is currently [...]

Welcome to FaveQuest, where it’s all about YOU! via kwout

A good friend, Allan Isfan sent me an invite to a new facebook application called FaveQuest. At first, I thought: “yea, like I need another facebook app…” I added the app for the heck of it and also because Allan is a friend… needless to [...]

Is the 5000 friend limit on Facebook a myth? not really. Renowned Silicon Valley blogger Robert Scoble, reached this limit a long time ago. Mark Cuban (billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks) just reached the limit. Jeff Pulver has about 4,200 friends and is fast approaching the limit. I would’ve assumed that with the weight [...]

If you are like the other 8 million people around the world that have BlackBerries, you are in luck! RIM has recently added an integrated Facebook Application to its popular mobile phone. The BlackBerry Facebook application is based on the Facebook Mobile API, which is still fairly new.
To be honest, I am very impressed and [...]

Many people applauded Facebook when they launched the Facebook Platform and allowed third party developers to build applications on their website. In fact, this was somewhat of a revolutionary move that contributed to Facebook’s estimated $15 billion value today. Naturally, all the other guys wanted a piece of this pie: MySpace, Six Apart, Orkut, Salesforce, [...]

I was surprised to find out recently that a lot of people still don’t know that they can update their Facebook status via text message (i.e. SMS). This is actually pretty easy and its a great way to make sure that everyone is spying on you all the time
All you have to do [...]

First of all, let me quote Steve Ballmer as he’s been covered all over the media for saying:

“I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”
Ever since he mentioned this a lot of people have been [...]

Starting from NYC…

I grew up in New York City and now live in Ottawa, Canada. Back in the day, Facebook was only for college students. In other words, you had to have a .edu email address or your university/college had to be listed on facebook for you to be able to sign up. Every time [...]

We all know Facebook started out as a college network. We all know that now it is an “everybody” network (to the dismay of many ). A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine told me that her mother added her on Facebook. I was amazed. A few days later, my father [...]

I love Facebook… no doubt about it… I was (and I show this off at every chance I get…hehehe) the first person in Ottawa to sign up for Facebook. But, let’s be realistic here… $10 Billion??? If this isn’t indication enough that the internet bubble is back then I don’t know what is…
So, where is [...]