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 [...]

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 [...]

[11/17//2006 - version 2 adds BusyTonight, Submate, Vibely]
After reading the TechCrunch article on nascent activities-centered websites, I decided to take my own look at the activities space. I wound up examining nineteen ventures by the end. Their aims may seem too desparate to lump together in one examination. However, in the abstract, [...]

Having examined a trio of recent entrants Pinger, Jyngle, and 3Jam in the multperson mobile communication space, I’ve decided to return to one of their forefathers, the colorfully named Dodgeball. This ambitious early experiment in social communication from NYC eventually caught the eye of Google, which gobbled it up May 2005 for an undisclosed [...]