December 4th, 2008 by Kyle Maxwell
I have a number of plans to improve the social networking here at Chrome Bits. Several of these will be implemented over the next few days, as I hook up Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. Hopefully I can do it through plugins and not a lot of manual work, but it’ll take whatever it [...]
November 20th, 2008 by Kyle Maxwell
(whaa whaa whaaaaa)
Google has killed off Lively, its foray into virtual worlds.
Probably for the best, as I don’t see where this was helping them organize the world’s information. Maybe the experience will help them delve into other worlds and organize that information, though.
November 12th, 2008 by Kyle Maxwell
Forums essentially descend directly from the “ancient” bulletin board systems, in many ways the original social networking applications (other than email). But most of them don’t take full advantage of everything we’ve learned or implement common features from other social applications.
I spend a lot of time on a specific community that primarily uses a forum [...]