The Facebook vs. Twitter battle was one of those things that I didn’t think would really happen. The signs were there, but I thought Facebook would be smarter and more focused. As it turns out, I was wrong. Facebook has gone from the technologi …

Nick O’Neill from AllFacebook thinks that Facebook can kill Twitter overnight if they open up the internal status message to developers who write Facebook apps. The piece is wrong on so many points, I’m surprised it hasn’t been ripp …

As I pointed out last time, Facebook profiles have undergone a pretty big renovation. This is a part of their “drive” to filter out the noise and make profiles less cluttered and more usable. Back then, the page looked terribly white-wash …

Boy does it look ugly, except for some parts. A more detailed write-up later in the day. …

On the 8th of May, I was drawn to chatter about a new hangout for Indian tweeters: #indiatwits at irc.freenode.org. I decided to give it a shot and see what the fuss was all about. Things just snowballed from there (get the whole time line over at th …

I’ll start with the punch-line: Decentralisation is not the solution to scale a service like Twitter. Those who suggest it are not getting the bigger issue. Twitter is not about the service, but the experience. Its ability to initiate conversat …

As our Internet devices get smaller and more powerful with time, the natural course of action would be to leverage their mobility and handy-ness to become more socially aware. The services we have (like Twitter and Pownce) at present rely on manual u …

Selena Frye for TechRepublic: We’ve seen the rapid rise of Facebook; are we going to see it die just as quickly as it burst in to life? Short and sweet? No. Quite simply because social networking websites come and go. There have been too …

Past few days, what with the Robert Scoble incident, and then the post incident stuff, things have been under fire for Facebook, but more importantly, the case for ‘open-data’ has been growing stronger. People suddenly want access to thei …

Bumped into this article. I really do feel sorry for the Wired writers. Where Facebook’s platform provides a proprietary programming language for developers to build applications that run inside the site (so you can send you friends a fresh pai …

It’s been just about more than a year (if I’m correct) since the release of F8, Facebook’s platform for developers to create ‘social’ applications which Facebook users can add to their profiles and make merry. Just abou …

Checking today (‘today’ being the second day of this application being included in the application repository), I see 400+ users, out of which 4 are friends. These past two days have shown exactly what people meant by the Facebook ̵ …

People not on Facebook probably use Flickr as their main image host, because it’s easier to share it with people, tag them, and store them safely knowing you won’t lose them. Flickr, backed by Yahoo!, has surely become an essential part o …

bVibes is our very own Digg, for bloggers! Created by the elite hacker Ramani, I think it’s something the bloggerosphere needed more than the blogosphere in general. It’s about time Blogger started getting the attention it deserves, and b …

I’ve been obsessing with Facebook for the past week because of the revelation of the new Facebook Platform. What that has in turn done is show me the intricate ways in which Facebook works. How different components come together to integrate th …

If you have looked around my blog lately, you’d have noticed the ‘Aditya is…’ widget that I added to the right. I recently took it out, because I gave the updates a new purpose, but no points for guessing that it was powered b …