Category | Social Media

The “Status Update” Mania

Posted on 30 August 2008

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the new features appeared in the new Facebook interface is the Live Feed. Through this functionality, you can get a realtime update of your friends’ activities, wathever they are doing within Facebook or in other services integrated [...]

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Ubiquity brings the command line to Firefox

Posted on 27 August 2008

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Ubiquity, the new Firefox extension released by Mozilla Labs really brings your browser to the next level. This is clearly another important sign that something huge is happening and we are moving to a digital world where the only app that you will need is your browser. For those who use [...]

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Adium 1.3 adds Facebook Chat

Posted on 27 August 2008

Image via Wikipedia I don’t know about you, but I don’t use the Facebook Chat so often. I don’t find it that usable, reason why I usually ignore it. Fortunately there is a remedy for this issue: yesterday the popular IM client for Mac OSX, Adium, released version 1.3 adding Facebook to the list of available [...]

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Friendfeed Beta is Out

Posted on 26 August 2008

Just realized that a new beta version of Friendfeed has been released a couple of days ago. I’m testing it out, I’ll post my impressions soon. I haven’t seen anything special so far, but I need more time to test it better. Technorati Tags: friendfeed, luca filigheddu, Social Media

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Qik Gets Two New Investors

Posted on 26 August 2008

Two of the key people of the popular and historical browser Netscape, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, invested in the popular mobile video streaming service Qik. Both of them joined the Qik’s board of advisors and I believe they will offer a very important contribution to the growth of the company. They have been key figures [...]

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Google is cutting Free food

Posted on 25 August 2008

According to Valleywag, as of today Googlers will be no longer getting free food for dinner, tea trolley and afternoon snack, while free breakfast and lunch will be still available. The point is that not only Googlers get free food, but anyone who is going to visit this or that person working for Google. I’ve been [...]

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LinkedIn introduces Company Directory

Posted on 19 August 2008

LinkedIn, my favorite business social network, today announces the introduction of “Company Directory“. This is a very interesting feature by which you can easily find a company together with various information about it. For example, you can get a quick screenshot on how people in a certain company are connected to each other and what other [...]

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