NutshellMail is one of those services that might be hard to wrap your head around, either because it’s concept seems unfeasible or just otherwise too good to be true. So what’s it do? NutshellMail lets you sneak around your company’s firewalls in order to receive your emails. It do...

Today is Facebook’s 5th birthday. Hard to believe it has been around that long, actually. Over 150 million people have joined since launch, and Facebook is now a household name. I remain a regular user of the site, though I’m not nearly as active there as I once was. I guess you could say the bu...

Since we added Facebook Connect to AdJoke, I've been thinking a lot about how important our digital identities have become and what the future of our D-ID's could look like (Digital identities) Think about it for a moment. Right now, the average person has at least 6-12 profiles across a number of s...

Whether you’ve got a bad ass iPhone or a just bad phone, if you can send and receive text messages you can vastly simplify your mobile lifestyle with 5 numbers - 59479 - that might prove to be a lifesaver (especially if you forgot to record the super new episode of 24). Yep, you read right, th...

Image: Er, All your media in one place (an excuse to include a pic of Babel, by Cildo Meireles) Yep, you heard that right: 2009 could be a year of MetaSocNets. That is to say meta-social networks, services that give you access to all of your social networks in one place, a bit like the way that Adiu...

Facebook Connect.  Myspace Data Portability. Google Friend Connect. All of these individual services are supposed to be there to help you manage the fire hose of information that comes to you through your social graphs, but who owns that information? The idea behind Facebook Connect and all of the ...

In case you’ve been living under a no-technology-news rock for the last few weeks, you’ll know that Facebook Connect was released recently. I had been seeing/hearing a lot about it, including this video at Mashable, showing how to implement FB Connect in 8 minutes. So when my friend Morg...

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Look, I don’t spend my time testing the language filters of user review sites. I was actually playing with Facebook Connect to see what it was capable of. Citysearch has a beta site where you can log in with your Facebook account, so I did. I wanted to see how Citysearch interacted with my Fac...

Reading the blogosphere coverage of both Google and Facebook launching their own data portability programs - Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect - I realized one thing: there is at least one type of services that can be seriously damaged by general availability of both programs to website own...