Renkoo released a public beta last week. My first impressions were “this is a pretty crude effort.” But I had deeper misgivings about it, Skobee, and Planyp.us and other new entrants in group social planning that I couldn’t quite articulate. Today those misgivings crystalized when emails flew back and forth about a [...]

Wallop started as the secretive MyWallop back in late 2003 after Google bought Pyra labs and Friendster was launched earlier that year. It was initially announced as a blogging service. Meanwhile a whole lot of activity transpired in the social networking space, including Microsoft’s own launch of MSN Spaces, as Wallop remained under [...]

I got interviewed by a writer for a business magazine on Friday about Twitter. Fittingly, Twitter’s the only service I use regularly of the dozens of new Web2.0 social or communications sites, but paradoxically, it is also the one that I’ve yet to dedicate even a whole paragraph of writing. I had dismissed [...]