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So far, the word from Austin has been this: SXSWi is 100% about fun — but serious fun. Oh, and one big train-wreck.
Described as “Spring Break, for Geeks,” SXSWi has gained notoriety over the years as a launch-pad for products (last year Twitter was the break-out), an incubator for partnerships (my company, BricaBox, will walk [...]

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The Facebook team announced last night that you’ll be able to demote your Facebook apps to a lower status on your provide, essentially making it easier to hide them away.
The “clean-up tool” is going to “clean up” a lot of soon-to-be pissed off developers.
This just falls right in line with the Facebook business model warnings [...]

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Don’t take my word for it. Here are the stats:

According to USV analyst Andrew Parker, people report the going rate for Facebook App M&A’s about $1.00/user
InsideFacebook put the Slide acquisition of Favorite Peeps as low as $0.046/user
The Where I’ve Been app was reportedly (though not verified to be) bought for $3 million, with 2.3 million [...]

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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

O’Reilly and his team just came out with some thorough research on the Facebook Platform, confirming my every post on the subject for the past three months:

That the Platform is a bad deal for developers and is amazing for Facebook itself
That we’d all be better off (Facebook too!) if [...]

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For all the Facebook bashing I do (it’s not bashing, really, just solid skepticism ;) you may be surprise to see me tell you about something I’m excited about on the platform.
If you’re a Facebook member, go install the Changing the Present app right now!
In the context of its own website, Changing the Present is [...]

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Steve Balmer is right.
Facebook is a fad; and if it’s not a fad, it’s totally “the rage.”
Both “fad” and “the rage” imply a temporariness — I know. And while I think Facebook is a great social networking site, which I will use for the time-being, I think there’s an inherent temporariness in something I’ve not [...]

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My response to new “opening up” features from the web services I use is usually to back off at first, only to go all-in later.
Case in point: I still don’t let Google save my search history. It freaks me out. But eventually I see turning this feature on for the practicality of being able to [...]

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