I’ve been getting dozens of comment spam per day on my MySpace profile from users of ProfileWatcher. The spam reminds me of the invitations that were sent to the MySpace friends of Multiply users who volunteered their usernames and passwords. MySpace eventually shutdown the spamming. ProfileWatcher spam hits the inbox and asks […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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