links for 2007-08-27

37Signals has done a great job of remaking traditional enterprise tools in a lightweight, online, distributed environment, but they’ve been much slower (recent OpenID integration notwithstanding) and even somewhat disinclined to integrate the newer social

Dapper’s Facebook AppMaker lets these Dapps be transformed into full-blown Facebook applications. This includes functionalities such as remote search and retrieval, remote login, and multi-page apps. A Facebook Developer account is a prerequisite to the

Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and Tumblr are generally seen as the 4 frontrunners, and while it’s not necessarily comparing apples to apples, it’s worth a look at how they compare. (I considered throwing Facebook in here, but it’s really a different animal

Maybe that’s why Facebook’s fastest-growing demographic consists of people 35 or older: they’re refugees from the uncouth wider Web. Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes