Fran's Blog

Before you assume it is Facebook, it isn’t. In fact, over the last year, social networks are becoming almost as common as porn on the web. All sorts of niche markets or slightly different variations on a theme are out there.

I’ve been trying out as many as I can and one stands out above the rest for me at the moment. But first, I remember when I first signed up to Facebook, it wasn’t much, you could message, write on a wall, upload a photo or 2, and that was about it. No API, not really any apps. I simply didn’t get it. Then it got better. The secret to looking through social networks is not to say “this is crap” straight away, but to see what potential it might have over the other networks out there, and what it might be able to do in the future.

You’ve probably heard of Pandora by now. At one point I’d get multiple emails from different people with a link to the site

I’ve been quite impressed by it, the one thing I thought would be good is if it could be independent of the browser. Well, after being told by a colleague, I have found a nice little app which does this, Open Pandora.