Over the past week, I’ve come across several very interesting sites. Rather than writing an entire post for each of them, I’ve consolidated them into one post. Have fun:

Zopa
Zopa calls what they do “Social Finance”. They want to change how money is shared (borrowed/loaned). “We will bring people together online so they can [...]

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When the Facebook platform first launched, you wouldn’t believe how many people contacted AllFacebook.com and said “I’m going to make a beer pong application.” It has been 10 months since the platform launched and finally a top notch beer pong application has been launched. As you would expect, it’s also very popular. In just a [...]

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From my friends over at AllFacebook.

Today there is talk of doomsday for Facebook. Between the failure taking place with the CBS Sports March Madness application and Henry Blodget posting that Facebook may be the next AOL, today is not a good day in Facebook land. Henry Blodget points out a few reasons that Facebook could [...]

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Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business
Illustration by David Simonds
A LARGE but long-in-the-tooth technology company hoping to become a bigger force in online advertising buys a small start-up in a sector that everybody agrees is the next big thing. A decade ago, this was [...]

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Social networking is no longer the Next Big Thing; it’s now as much part of our Web experience as search engines. Previously considered the province of kids who wanted to keep up with class gossip, social networking services are being co-opted by grownups who are examining ways to use them both within and outside of [...]

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It seems that around 2004 a memo must have been sent out to some companies outlining the benefits of creating unusual alliances. Before that, companies worked together when they obviously had a shared customer base or when their products clearly aligned.

It makes sense for bookstores to have coffee shops co-located in their sites. One expects [...]

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Chris Yeh, investor and executive over at PBWiki, just dropped us a line to let us know of the public release of PBWiki version 2.0:
“As you know, there’s been a lot of activity in the wiki/collaboration space recently, especially with the launch of Google Sites. I thought that PBwiki’s first major overhaul could [...]

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By Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook.com
Ask Mark Zuckerberg and he’ll tell you, Facebook’s goal is to create the most accurate representation of our “social graph.” There’s only one problem with Facebook’s attempt so far though: all our interactions don’t take place within Facebook. We send instant messages to our friends, send at replies on Twitter, have [...]

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Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format, according to Silicon Alley Insider. The company has been talking about making these changes for some time now, but at least the domain http://www.delicious.com now redirects to del.icio.us. But more [...]

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John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla

(Credit: Matt Asay)

Matt Asay over at CNet.com posted a very interesting look at Firefox. Here’s what he had to say:

I spent an hour Thursday with John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of Engineering, and learned a few things. For one thing, I once argued that [...]

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