Seeing Forests

Seems like the new “Mood Messages” feature on Skype could just as easily be called “What are you doing?”

Greg takes Another Look at Google Places Pages and it’s a good one.  Realizing there was only so much you could put in a pop-up tabbed window, Google moves to creating a set of place pages at varying levels of geographic scale, from cities through neighborhoods to attractions and finally to businesses themselves.  Of course, [...]

I’m a little sketchy on this Techcrunch post about Centrl (where, oh where are all the poor vowels going).  There are a lot of claims in here about being first that I’m just not buying.  One thing that doesn’t seem to be a first is a business model.  I’m sure there’s one in there somewhere [...]

I think that a new Skype Platform might offer something up in the near future like the Apple App Store to developers and particularly local developers.  As someone in the comments pointed out Andreesen is leading the buyout consortium and on the board of Facebook.  I’ve said something about the crossover between Skype and Facebook. [...]

I think this is pretty funny but also somewhat informative as to what a fairly aware group of PR folks - along with some collaborative engineers - can do in this day and age to affect the blogosphere.  Putting up a feature that only certain IP networks can see is raft with possibilities.