Did Someone You Know Get Facebook for Christmas?

By Jake • Published on January 5th, 2009 • View Comments

Or maybe you did?
I polled Twitter to see if anyone else noticed an influx of activity and friend requests from Facebook over the holidays, loosely interpreted as the end of December. Meg agreed, and everyone else wisely continued enjoying their seasonal free time.
According to Hitwise, Facebook saw its highest ever daily traffic number on December [...]

Google Does and Knows a Lot

By Jake • Published on November 20th, 2008 • View Comments

It’s pretty hard to keep up with all the stuff Google does. There are several blogs I know of whose only purpose in life is to cover Google.
Anyway, a couple noteworthy Google announcements recently caught my attention. So, I figured I share them and collect your thoughts.
Google Flu Trends
Google.org announced Google Flu Trends recently, which [...]

What a Difference a Year Makes

By Jake • Published on May 19th, 2008 • View Comments

This year is not last year.
Last year, I spent hours talking Web 2.0 to teams in development. Collectively, we probably held 20 or so educational sessions and then a similar number of follow up roundtables to discuss ideas spawned by the first session.
This year, I’ve been spending days collecting requirements of teams that want to [...]