PeekYou Makes People Search Worthwhile with Google Integration

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

People search engine PeekYou had launched a new interface that combines Google search results with listings from its directory of people. For example, a search for “Mashable” will return a link to our blog, and on the left include a picture and link to the PeekYou profile of Pete ...

Mojaz, A Feed Aggregator For People Who Like The Pretty

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Maybe it’s just me, but I believe a “feed aggregator”, or RSS reader to us plebians, is more about reading your feeds than looking pretty while doing it. Mojaz is currently in private beta, but we got a chance to go in and look around today, and maybe it’s ...

MySpace Bullies: These People are Scum

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Looks like we’ve been out of the loop on this MySpace story that’s all over the news (see video above): just over a year ago, depressed 13-year-old Megan Meier started receiving flirtatious MySpace messages from a 16-year old called “Josh Evans” on MySpace. They struck up a virtual relationship. ...

Breaking News: People Use Zunes

Monday, November 19th, 2007

No one is as surprised as me at the news, but as it turns out, people do use Zunes. I just caught a tweet from Todd Cochrane at RawVoice where he credited the brand new Zune Marketplace for providing 10% of the traffic received to his podcast for the last ...

OSCON People and Random Tidbits

Friday, August 4th, 2006

One of the great things about OSCON is how it brings people together, and this year's conference was no different. I had the privilege of meeting a number of people for the first time: Andrew van der Stock, a well-known web application security ...

Are Happy People Smarter?

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

I doubt many of my readers follow Robert Scoble (a Microsoft blogger), but in April, he announced a change in policy regarding the comments on his blog - he's moderating them: Yes, I am now approving every comment here. And I will delete any that don'...