FriendFeed’s new “fake following,” a feature that allows you to appear as someone’s friend without actually recieving updates from them, has gotten a bit of attention from Merlin Mann, Jason Kottke, who calls it “a little bit genius,” and Rex Sorgatz, who calls it “the most important feature in the history of social networks.”
What does [...]
If you’ve wondered why the Mosuki blog has been quiet these last few months, it’s because we’ve been hard at work on what is probably our biggest new feature since we first launched. Mosuki will now tell you when your favorite bands are performing nearby, just like it tells you when your friends post [...]
The Death of the Relational Database argues that relational databases aren’t good for applications that may add various additional relationships with new features, because the tables store not just the “objects” but the relationships between them.
In the early days at Mosuki, Jonathan implemented a table to store “certifications,” which are essentially directed, labeled edges connecting [...]
Many new members of the “Web 2.0″ smörgåsbord seem to think that by placing the word “beta” in front of their product they somehow relieve themselves of the duty to provide a service which is as bug-free and available as possible.
The founders of Mosuki have always believed that providing a service for other people to [...]
There’s a whole lot of little new features on Mosuki this month. We’ve redesigned the way that you RSVP for an event, and added a place to leave a quick, clever comment for your friends when RSVPing. The privacy settings for events, places, and other items are greatly simplified. We now have a published locations [...]
KillerStartups.com wrote a great review of Mosuki. Their only criticism is that it might be easier to use the events systems on other social networking sites. Of course, we’re not worried about that because only Mosuki has the full spectrum of privacy, from totally secret events, through invitation-only and word-of-mouth events, to events published [...]
You can now invite your friends to join Mosuki scenes. You can send invites to both friends on Mosuki, and emails in your address book. Have a private group of people that you hold events with from time to time? Create a closed-membership scene for them, post a few events, and invite everybody [...]
We’ve just released a Facebook application for Mosuki. With it, you can put Mosuki events that you’ve posted, and events from your scenes, onto you Facebook profile. Check it out.