Category: Opinions

Links posted by 3rd party apps via the Graph API are treated differently. In September it was concluded that they are even penalized when considered for displaying on the home stream. Facebook allegedly fixed that. But still, posts via the Graph API have some handicap, and that’s on purpose. Recently I reported a bug that …

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With all the technology advancements, “piracy” spread – we are talking about “stealing” mp3’s and DVD rips. This leads to stern measures by governments to counter “stealing”. Including the recent SOPA, which is condemned by many internet leaders, including Sergey Brin and Jimmy Wales. The debate is old and lengthy. Is it really stealing when …

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If you are in some way related to social media you’ve heard about social reputation. There are lots of services that calculate your social reputation and give you some analytics about it. These include Klout, Peerindex, Kred. But the what’s the point? Each of these services will tell you theirs is unique and has a …

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It appears selected companies were given access to more features of the Google+ API. Now, that’s lame. There are two sides of this: what companies get from it, and what google gets. And it’s a stupid move from whichever perspective you look at it. The chosen companies are already market leaders. Why would google give …

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Google+ introduced circles. Facebook followed. In short – when adding friends you have to decide what group they belong to. Joel Spolsky called this “autistic”. I agree with that view, but it only covers to process of creating and filling circles/groups/lists. But what complicates things even more is when you share – you have to …

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So, what happened in the past 3 months? Google+ got lots of signups because of the hype Facebook copied all the cool features of Google+: circles – facebook had lists, but they improved the UI and made it more visible. Now you choose whether your posts are public, or you want to target them at …

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Yesterday Google released a limited API for Google+. And they expect people to build apps with it, to give feedback. This is very good, but let’s see what you can do with the limited API. Well, nothing actually. You can get the user profile details and their own posts. You can’t get streams, you can’t …

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Twitter is adding “Activity stream”. What we can see in the screenshots is followings, retweets and favorites. Retweets are also visible in the current stream. The only difference is that now you see how many people have retweeted it. Which you could do by clicking on the tweet previously. Followings is something new – previously …

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Recently it became clear that Google+ is going to also be a platform for social games. It may look like “social gaming” is something big. Well, it is big, but it has nothing to do with “social”. I have played games online long before the social networks became so popular. Yes, games with other people. …

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