KickApps has grown quickly in the past few months. Since we’ve added 2 new people to the Product team, I’ve been able to focus on the sexiest part of our application: tools for building vibrant online communities. As part of that focus, I’ve been tasked with getting active in blogland, posting more threads and responding to relevant comments.
I decided to dive in with a simple topic, Facebook’s new “application” feature, which allows other websites and internet applications to integrate their features as Widgets. (See, I was right, Widgets are the future of the Internet.)
My pro-Widget, pro-Facebook article is posted on the KickApps blog, which I’m happy to report will include more general analysis and fewer pseudo press releases in the future. Perhaps more interesting are a couple of short posts from young bloggers on MediaPost’s “Notes from the digital frontier”:
- In A ‘poke’ of sorts, David gives a quick overview of how Facebook is empowering other sites to expand their audience
- In Facebook: Starting to become my favorite, Betsy provides a user’s take on the new offerings
The kids are all right!
It really gets my back up when peeps use their corporate blog as a mouthpiece for their Director of Marketing. They need to get a cluetrain, yanahmean?