The real time web

Social networks ‘are new e-mail

Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.

“We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0,” David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer said.

At South by Southwest now there [...]

Facebook and Zuckerberg

A-list tech blogger Robert Scoble asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, why the lousy PR and lack of response when problems happened, something which has severely impacted Facebook. The answer was quite unexpected.

I asked him why he doesn’t like going on video and seems to have difficulty dealing with the press and bloggers. He said [...]

Facebook Follies continue

Uber-geek blogger Robert Scoble used a third party script to download his contact list from Facebook who then responded by deleting his account saying it violated the Terms of Use.

Now comes the hilarious part

I’m getting dozens of emails asking for my script. See, there’s a ton of people who WANT to be deleted [...]