Yes, we’ve been busy! This marks the launch of our second Facebook application, Promise Me.
Promise Me (http://apps.facebook.com/promiseme/) is our first “real” application. We kind of considered I Declare to be our trial run or proof of concept (but we still hope people enjoy and get use out of it). We think that Promise Me is a [...]

Today the SEC announced a temporary ban on short selling of 799 financial stocks. This is, of course, a desperate move to create securities market stability. The ban will be in place until October 2. Its just delaying the inevitable, in my opinion. Without getting technical, long position holders in financials are going to be pissed because [...]

For the last few weeks, we have been playing around with the Facebook Application Platform. The result: I Declare. This is the first of a few applications that we have in the pipeline, and we are quite pleased with the result. This is somewhat of a “proof of concept”, given that it is the first Social Network app we’ve [...]

So on my way home last night, I got a call from a friend telling me that some politician was on TV today telling everyone to be ready for gasoline prices to spike 13-cents per litre overnight. He advised me to get there before the price shock hits. My first reaction? Ignore him, of course. Not surprisingly, [...]

I’m not ashamed to admit that I still really haven’t tapped the full potential of Twitter. I mean, why lie? Maybe its because I’ve been accused of being overly verbose, so it just doesn’t meet my minimum verbosity requirements. Techdirt shares their perspective on “Ambient Awareness”, via the NYT, a concept that is propogated through [...]

Continuing with our thoughts on the absurdly archaic attitude of Metallica, Mashable shares a story via Blabbermouth, regarding their thoughts on an early leak of their new album “Death Magnetic”.
“…it’s part of how it is these days, so it’s fine. We’re happy.”, says drummer Lars Ulrich
I suppose we’ll see how happy the angry black-clad rockers are [...]

Bring it! Techcrunch and many others report the imminent launch of Chrome, the Google Browser. Although I’ve already long since abandoned Explorer in all places except for my day job (where its the only browser allowed – blech!), this is a monumental shift towards Google, who is continues to prove that they really understand the [...]