SocialStartups.com

Phew. So I’m back. My laptop hard drive died and I lost the password to this admin account, so I’ve been unable to post. But never fear, I finally discovered the “Lost your password?” link and guessed the right username/email combination.

Since it’s memorial day weekend, I’ll be playing around with the coolest thing to hit Tech since… jeez, I dunno, maybe AJAX – Facebook Platform! I’ll be twittering and blogging about my experiences as I figure out what I’m doing. First tip: This looks to be a great tutorial, running through it now. God bless wikis (found via F8 documentation wiki).

Google Reader – David’s shared items

Since I’m subscribed to 30-some feeds and read hundreds of articles every day, I’ve decided to start sharing the articles that I think are worth reading with all of you. You can read the web (HTML) version of it by clicking the link above, or subscribe to my RSS feed here. It’s all about the kinds of topics my socialstartups.com blog is about – technology and community and startups. Enjoy!

Wow, never going back now. I used the Google Personalized home page forever (or, since it launched), but now that I’ve got so many blogs to keep up with, it was time to give Google Reader a chance. And you know what? Keyboard shortcuts are severely underrated. You just don’t know how great they are until you try it. Makes reading so much faster.

Before diving into a very exciting new feature launched today by Jellyfish.com, I would like introduce myself and explain what this blog is all about. To start, hello, my name is David Lifson. I’m a software engineer at Amazon.com, doing some very exciting work in the social computing space.

This blog is going to be a look at new ideas, new technologies, and new startups in social computing. Anything from new ways to chat, to new ways to blog, to new ways to merge offline with online is fair game. I find this area extremely exciting and I hope you will as well.