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How Does Friend Connect Put Users In Control?

Google will be launching Friend Connect tonight to turn the open Web a place for open social apps to run wild as a motivator adoption mechanism for the new Google Gadget 2.0 format with OpenSocial across the Web. With Google powering email and search and collecting user data, I wonder about this new social component and about user controls. I did not get a chance to ask this question on the call due to what may have been technical issues but regardless I wanted to throw it out there to the blogosphere to give their SOMEWHAT FRANK perspectives on the following:

  How Does Google Friend Connect Put Users In Control?

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below if you have a SOMEWHAT FRANK opinion.

Do Paper Greeting Cards Still Have A Place?

With Mother's Day and a bunch of birthdays coming up I have been thinking about the whole gifting process and more specifically paper greeting cards. I think there is still something nice about getting a paper card since it is an artifact but I have found that more of the total inventory of greeting card play music. I find it kind of annoying but it is tough to find a good card anymore. It seems that someone must be buying greeting cards that play music because they seem to be taking up a majority of the Hallmark greeting card rack these days. But with all the social interactions that technology has enabled from your cell phone messages to online e-cards to Facebook gifts that can be sent here is SOMEWHAT FRANK question for you:

Do Paper Greeting Cards Still Have A Place?

Give your SOMEWHAT FRANK opinion in the comments section below.

Photo Attribution: Bashar Al-Ba'noon

What is Twitter Worth?

Twitter has exploded since coming out earlier last year and I have talked about it a number of times and even put my thoughts on video. I even saw my own sister come around and sign up for an account after talking to her about it awhile back and getting the: "why would I want to do that?" reaction.

Twitter recently were reported to take a little more funding thus making an exit price tag more pricey. But I wanted pose the question to the blogosphere and my SOMEWHAT FRANK readers:

What is Twitter worth?

Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

What Schools Offer On-Campus Venture Funds?

Stanford University recently launched on on-campus venture fund called SSE Ventures. I think this is a great idea but I do not thing Stanford University is the only school that is doing this. So I thought I would ask SOMEWHAT FRANK readers to try and come up with other schools that might have similar programs. Here is a SOMEWHAT FRANK question for you:

What Schools Offer On-Campus Venture Funds?

Leave the school name, fund or program in the comments section below.

Web 2.0 is _____?

It is time for a Web 2.0 pondering checkpoint poll. In the past there have been a number of videos and such that I have referred to that try and define Web 2.0 which included this basic definition video to this inventive video. But I wanted to see what you think about Web 2.0. What would you say if you had to fill in the blank to complete the following sentence:

Web 2.0 is ______?

Leave it in the comments section below and be sure to pass this post on to your friends and colleagues as we look to create a list potential Web 2.0 definitions.

Ask500People Live Polls The Web For Answers

Ask500People aims to live up to its name by taking a simple poll question and opening it up to the Web to interact and answer. It offers a social and public polling record that is plotted on a map real-time. The map moves around as poll questions are answered by 500 people (which attributes to its clever name).

Poll: Thoughts about Google's OpenSocial API?

This week the Web development community has been buzzing as details were released about a new widget API called Google OpenSocial. Google officially launched OpenSocial and provided this video to further explain its actions. I have been trying to get my head around what it really means and would like to open it up to my readers for input via a Somewhat Frank poll to get your take on OpenSocial.

Are You Addicted To Facebook?

I have discussed technology and Internet addiction before, as it can be a very real thing. Facebook has become a very popular destination recently and I was wondering, is it possible to be addicted to Facebook? Take this quick poll and let me know what you think. Are you addicted to Facebook?

Poll: Are you getting an iPhone?

The iPhone frenzy has been brewing all week across the country. I just was curious to see how many Somewhat Frank readers were going to get an iPhone immediately. Take this poll and let me know.