links for 2007-08-01
Links August 1st, 2007
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“You can build a great Facebook application that is used by millions of people, but if it doesn’t help you with your business, what’s the point?”
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“Turning My Yahoo! into an open platform for rich internet applications does two things: 1. unify Yahoo!’s services 2. adds utility for users and gives them less reason to leave “
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“Search giant Google is setting the stage for its biggest push yet into the U.S. mobile market, in a strategy that delicately straddles the line between partnering and competing with the major cell phone operators.”
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“According to comScore, MySpace is over twice as large as its nearest rival, Facebook. Both Facebook and Bebo have had extraordinary growth over the past year (270% and 172% respectively):”
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“Now that the Federal Communications Commission has voted to adopt only two of the ” ‘Four Opens’ of Successful Open Access,” the question on many minds is “Will Google bid in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction?”
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“The electric car comes back from the dead. The new Think sounds awesome: A tiny electric car, built-to-order through an online site, which comes with an Internet connection and the ability to sell power back to the grid. It’s Henry Ford 2.0. On sale in t
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“VentureBeat reports that Facebook has removed a popular application from its third-party developer platform over potential copyright issues. The application, called Audio, allowed users to upload MP3 files and share them with their friends”
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“Bitlet is a handy service for downloading BitTorrent files without the client.”
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