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Facebook, building walls without anybody noticing

So, Facebook is officially the new AOL. A post on ReadWriteWeb about Facebook’s new collaboration with AOL’s authentication system somehow became one of the top Google results for “facebook login,” and the result was hundreds of Facebook users stumbling onto what they assumed was a “new” Facebook, confusing the heck out of many FB users: [...]

Second Life as Micropayment provider?

So, my Seed cohort Christopher and I just read this article over at O’Reilly: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/lindens_as_micropayments.html Neither of us are Second life participants, but we have been watching some of the more high profile events within it with interest. At first glance, the Second Life community is slightly bizarre (at second glance as well). SL is [...]

The only good thing about the new IE: RSS Feeds

So, we all know IE 7 is coming. We know it’s likely to not be much better than anything that came previously. However, there is one thing to look forward to: With the advent of IE 7, a large portion of internet users will be introduced to RSS for the first time. Plus, it will [...]

Bahaha — Safari Lightly Mocks IE

For whatever reason, I viewed the source of a 404 page I received in Safari — I thought this comment was lightly amusing: – Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new – “feature” to Internet Explorer. If the text of – an error’s message is “too small”, specifically – less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer [...]

We’re at it again: ScienceBlogs are in the hizzouse.

Well, Monkey Do has again been busy, and again the partner-in-web is Seed, and again it’s a Movable Type installation — but this time we’re actually using it for blogs! ScienceBlogs is the world’s largest conversation about science. It features blogs from a wide array of scientific disciplines, with new voices coming on board regularly. [...]