Yahoo quietly launched Mixd yesterday. On the phone side, Mixd is equivalent to and even slightly better than 3Jam. Mixd’s web interface for creating and managing the SMS groups is much better than 3Jam’s though still raw and has the capability to receive and display videos and photos.
Like 3Jam, Mixd implements the IRC […]

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I stumbled across piqniq.jp in a Google Adsense banner on my own site. Google apparently is capable once in a blue moon of delivering ads relevant to the blog’s “Long Tail of Web2.0” theme. I don’t have much to say about this site except how commonplace social networking features have become. Piqniq […]

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Whether MojoPages can challenge or supplant Yelp is another question. (“Complement” seems to be answer. Read on.) Yelp has done a great job of building a community of credible reviewers. Though Yelp’s very name is suggestive of a relationship to the yellow pages, Yelp positions itself effectively as “Real People. […]

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The tagline is taken from Tractis, so I can’t claim credit for it, but I do wholeheartedly agree. At the same time, the legal system and the rules we follow ought to evolve gingerly for the sake of societal continuity. But while the legal system is largely monolithic, there are pockets of innovation […]

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