Facebook Republican Army Surrenders... After a concerted tabloid frenzy the supposed leader of the Facebook Republican Army Steve O’Brien has told The Times it’s a big hoax after all. Well only after Sky News (who also happen to own The Times), had syndicated it to FoxNews. Who it turns out are in turn owned by the company that owns...

Paper, Stone, Scissors, erm hold on̷... Following on from my piece on Google’s Open Social – as I was sorting out read and unreads on my RSS feeds I noticed another posting today on Open Social and the rest at by Richard MacManus at Readwriteweb.com - The Distributed Social Networking Puzzle: Putting The Pieces...

Forrester: Instant Messaging and Virtual... A recent report from Forrester on Virtual Worlds asks  ”Will Unified Communications Make Virtual Worlds Relevant To Business?” and provides a hedged answer of ‘Yes, But It Won’t Be Overnight‘. The backdrop to the report is a joint venture between IBM and Forterra Systems called...

Paper, Stone, Scissors, Platform,... One year on, an interesting repost from Dion Hinchcliffe in his Web 2.0 blog this morning on Google’s Open Social concept. As I understand it, Open Social opens the door (but see Dion’s caveats) to interoperability by delivering open APIs that  work across different social applications and...