ZWAH REPORT

Don’t you just love Facebook!
I don’t. I’m going to compare the Facebook platform to a Bingo Hall. Here goes:
Facebook is like a Bingo Hall because no matter how many friends, neighbors and random people sign up and join in the fun, everybody is still holding the same boring square game boards. Sure, you can arrange […]

I just read on Mashable that Spokeo is officially launching. Take a look at this screenshot — it’s a wizard that collects your usernames and passwords to your favorite social sites. What a case-study for useability, architecture and security! (This is the way all similar aggregators work, not just Spokeo.)

Are there alternatives to the keys-to-the-kingdoms […]

coRank has just opened up their sub-domains to anybody who wants to start their own Digg-like community. One thing they didn’t do is put an RSS link in the header.html template file. No problem:

Grab the RSS link from your coRank site. It should look something like this: http://YOURSITE.corank.com/tech/all/upcoming/rss.xml
Open up the Header.html template file and insert […]

As I crawl around the Web 2.0 world, I’m seeing more examples of “parked” spam pages on social networking sites. They’re easy to find in Technorati, and I’ve also just spotted some on Squiddo. Why didn’t the creators of these sites just get a domain and park it? Well, for one thing, a lot of […]

The big web social-scene sites will hand your profile over without hesitation should someone else call you on infractions with the site’s user-agreement — no use claiming first amendment protections here. Moral of the story: get your own domain name.

Here’s the mission statement off the homepage of scribd:
Scribd’s mission is to create the world’s largest open library of documents.
Explore the thousands of docs already uploaded or contribute your own!
Are they kidding? These altered dictionary domain-named sites (e.g. Digg, Flickr, etc…) are getting silly…