Archive for April, 2007

We’re in an era of immense media saturation, so much so that millions of Netizens understandably opt to filter the countless feeds available down to select lists of top choices, in order to avoid a barrage of information where one would undoubtedly exist if selectivity could not be had. We may, however, be seeing the [...]

A couple of weeks after MySpace said nein! to embedded videos originating on Photobucket, the News Corp-owned social networking site took down the barrier it had erected in retaliation for the inclusion of advertisements shown in the streams of Photobucket-based clips without the prior notification or consent Murdoch and his vast supply of underlings. Well, [...]

On the Web, what constitutes “going too far”? In one word, nothing. But that doesn’t mean certain things shouldn’t be off limits and regulated into the realm of the unseen. A headline on the Silicon Valley Watcher having to do with Justin’s (of Justin.TV) decision to cap the lens and smother the mic during a [...]

Meshly takes after twitter, in that you can send your posts to the site via instant messaging. It’s easy to do as they give you step by step directions through your IM client. Meshly is about uploading links. You choose which category to put it into, and if you don’t think it fits, you can [...]

Chinese President Hu Jintao launched a campaign on Monday to rid the country of "unhealthy" content and utilize the Web as a springboard for Communist Party doctrine. Actually, the news of late has been headed towards this situation as Chinese officials have blamed the Internet of everything from youth violence and crime to Genghis Kahn's [...]

Plum is a social networking site that lets users collect and share all manner of digital media. This tastefully done aggregation site jumps into this competitive niche with a great tool called "the Plummer", a toolbar that allows users to add everything from Web pages to local documents and media. Plum is free and currently in [...]

Kyte.tv went live Monday the 23rd as promised by Daniel Graf the founder. Kyte is a Splashcast type startup that allows users to broadcast content, display photos, music and other favorite media on their sites. Channels on Kyte.tv can be enabled with live chat and are viewable via a scroll menu below the player. Kyte is the most feature [...]

There was a time when politicians and blogs did not go together. The first didn’t want to stoop down to the level of the second, where nobodies (bloggers) could hit at somebodies (politicians) and where the rules were very simple: anything goes. Talking points were the way to go. Staged town hall-style meet-and-greets with audiences [...]

Think Web 2.0 is a lotta hype backed up by little realism? The Web 2.0 Expo held last week (April 15-18) proved the exact opposite. Well, maybe not the exact opposite (there was still a fair amount of hype). But it was all very real. If not, 30,000 feet of space was a lot to [...]