Ryan Joy (atxryan)

I’ve told anyone who would listen for some time now that Facebook was the future in social networks. It’s underlying technology blows away anything MySpace or Bebo brings to the table. LinkedIn is a more comparable site.
Now Facebook has announced their new online platform strategy, f8, which seeks to approach an online operating system serving [...]

Each time someone was interested in a local web design meetup here in Austin I would receive an email alert. This has been happening for many months since the first time I sought out such a group. There are already a number of other corollary groups that I attend that relate to this industry, [...]

Wondering why the local Austin paper doesn’t have a Twitter account so I can get updates like NYT. Ryan, thoughts?
Paul Menard via Twitter
Well, it’s true that you can find Twitter accounts for the New York Times, CNN, BBC, TechCrunch, et al. However, it’s not clear how many of those are actually official branding efforts by [...]

Their tag line reads “What if your photo collection was an entry point into the world, like a wormhole that you could jump through and explore”. I have to say that I think the last time I felt this excited about software that wasn’t designed to improve my efficiency, but is instead designed to improve [...]