http://www.unodewaal.com Uno de Waal's online space covering everything about web2.0, social networks and internet related developments in South Africa and how it fits in with the rest of the world. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:14:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Friday drinks are great, drinks in general are great, but drinks with great minds are especially great. Last Friday we moze'd on down to Firemans Arms in Green Point for Beer 'O Clock with Leezl, Tiaan, Herman and Clint. All people who I love working with. I wanted to chat about ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/06/30/more-on-the-maturing-web/ I can't shake the feeling that I've been getting that the days of garage web-startups are over. My sense of the web is that we've reached some level of maturity where most of the apps we're seeing coming out now are from established houses. Pownce came from the Digg stable, Twitter ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/06/20/signs-of-a-maturing-web/ Dammit, why does their Toilet Seat look better than my Toilet Seat? http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/05/13/google-you-bastards/ As part of our recent foray in social services (not the welfare kind, the web kind) at 24.com, we've launched Answerit - a site where you can ask and questions and get human answers. It's a very well thought out product - you can thumbs-up answers, follow commentators and sections, view ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/04/22/24com-launches-answerit-gets-deeper-into-the-social-web/ I really liked the post on RWW today about dataportablity by Josh Catone. It’s something that I’m struggling to get my head around – who owns that data?I’m a believer that while you own the data, the activity, i.e. what you did on the site and what you put on ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/04/16/questions-around-dataportability/ If you take a look at the data that Facebook has on you, and the quality of that data you'd be able to see that they really don't have that much qualitative data and can only target pretty rudimentary ads.For making it easier, let's split it in 2 groups: Profile ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/04/14/social-news-sites-are-more-valuable-than-facebook/ I'm quite liking the LinkedIn RSS feed for network updates, except for one thing, it doesn't do what you expect it to do.I'd like it if there was a link to both people's profiles, especially the new person whom I don't know. http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/04/02/linkedin-rss/ 20 points to whoever knows what this picture means: http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/03/28/whats-this/ The Facebook/MS Messenger product allows you to pull your contacts email address's out of Facebook and displays the addresses in plain text, ready for scraping. Now this might not seem like too big a deal - but remember that of all the things that you can't get out of Facebook (their ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/03/26/microsoft-invites-pull-your-address-data-out-of-fb/  I'm trying out Socialthing and I'm really impressed with the "adding your services" task. It's pretty quick and easy and uses a really cool interface. One of the most interesting pieces is that they grab your Facebook news Feed, or a part of it. You'll see that you Socialthing stream is ... http://www.unodewaal.com/2008/03/11/socialthing-winning/