by Ray Valdes | December 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today, Facebook released an update to the design of its profile-related pages. The company scored a huge PR coup in making the announcement via a segment on the Sunday evening 60 Minutes news show. The details have been covered elsewhere on the Web, but in a nutshell, the update includes: a top-level synopsis of user’s [...]
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by Ray Valdes | November 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Today’s launch is another round in the protracted conflict between Facebook and Google — following on earlier announcements about Facebook Groups and the deal with Bing. Facebook Messages is a significant revamp of Facebook’s existing messaging facility. It is being rolled out over the next few months, and is likely to get used by users [...]
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by Ray Valdes | October 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Another week, another round, in the heating-up competition between Facebook and Google. If you didn’t catch the news, today Microsoft and Facebook made a joint announcement in which Bing search engine will use social data from Facebook (data from “Likes” and “Instant Personalization”) to deliver improved search results to users. Today’s announcement represents a worthwhile [...]
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by Ray Valdes | October 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
The engineering team at Facebook has been in “lockdown” mode for the past 60 days, and yesterday released the results of their labors. The launch event at Facebook offices in Palo Alto unveiled a whole bunch of enhancements: an improved version of Groups, plus a data-export facility for your social data, as well as a [...]
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by Ray Valdes | August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
Facebook announced its long-awaited geolocation capability earlier today: Facebook Places. I’m writing this while heading home after spending the earlier part of the day in Palo Alto at Facebook headquarters. Before the announcement, traveling to Palo Alto, I was thinking about what one might expect. My view is that adding location to the Facebook experience [...]
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by Ray Valdes | May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Some quick thoughts at the end of two full days at the Google I/O conference. The event had many sold-out sessions populated by attendees that were listening intently to Google’s message about the future of the Web, mobile devices, digital television, and platforms in the cloud. Some key themes: HTML5. Google played the HTML5 card, [...]
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by Ray Valdes | April 21, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’m in San Francisco, where the Facebook F8 conference is about to begin, thinking about the Facebook platform and its developer ecosystem. In trying to assess the platform and its impact, I find it useful to compare it against another highly visible and popular platform, that of the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad). [...]
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by Ray Valdes | February 10, 2010 | 56 Comments
Over the past week, I had a slew of press inquiries about the future of Flash, driven largely by the Apple iPad announcement — an event in which Flash was conspicuously absent. Of the top of my head, I put together some key points in the conversation, presented below. As I mull these talking points [...]
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by Ray Valdes | January 28, 2010 | 13 Comments
Following up on my blog post from yesterday, here’s a quick reaction to some of the design challenges I mentioned. Overall, I am underwhelmed, but I realize the iPad is for a different market. I have a MacBook and iPhone — both of which I am happy with and use constantly. There is no room [...]
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by Ray Valdes | January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
If Apple does not reveal its long-rumored tablet tomorrow, there’s a chance that Silicon Valley will fall into the ocean, so great will be the disappointment. I don’t know what the device will be called, but I like iTablet over other possible names (iSlate, iPad, iCanvas) that have been rumored. The word iTablet resonates with [...]
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