How Poopy is Your Diaper?

In a few weeks, two Harvard graduates, both in their early 20s, will unleash to the world a new social networking site. Call it a Facebook for fetuses.

In the meantime, I will be playing in traffic.

If You Could Sell Children Online, I’d Be A Father Several Times Over

Parents arrested after baby offered on Craigslist. This comes on the heels of a German woman who put her baby on eBay as a joke.

Dot Bomb 2.0?

There has been a lot of chatter about the reliability of Twitter and just as much about its lack of a business model.

Despite the user uptake of Web 2.0 services, I still don’t understand how these services intend to monetize themselves, even if they are very useful – Remember the Milk comes to mind.

Facebook has yet to make money and even Google’s Eric Schmidt admitted recently that it has yet to figure out how to make money off YouTube.

Mark Evans has a quick post with some links that further explore the business models of Twitter and FriendFeed.Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, social networking, FriendFeed, Mark Evans, Twitter, Facebook, Remember the Milk

I’m Not Really Sure Why I Twitter Either

Wired columnist Lore Sjöberg concludes the internet is to human interaction as Pringles are to potatoes. And yet he continues to try out new social networking sites.

Technorati Tags: Lore Sjöberg, Wired, Twitter, social networking, Pringles

Twitter Jitters

I’ve recently started using Twitter, if only to see what all of the fuss is about. Truth be told, I only have three people following me and I’m only following them.

I’m actually using it more as a tool to update my Facebook using a Facebook application called TwitterSync as well as a method of updating my Remember the Milk tasks via SMS, Google Chat or by sending an e-mail.

The latter use is starting to become almost essential, but as Matthew Ingram points out, for a service that is supposed to be all about real-time communication, Twitter has been doing very little to address recent reliability issues.

Whether you believe Twitter is merely a fad or a legitimate new method of communication, anything that markets itself as “real time” should take reliability seriously.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Matthew Ingram, Web 2.0, social networking, blogging, micro blogging, Remember the Milk, Facebook