Archive for May, 2008

The Twitterverse was all aflutter over the past 24 hours or so as Twitter was used as a venue for online harassment. As soon as I started seeing the harassment accusations flying across my screen in Twhirl (my desktop Twitter client of choice) I thought about the blogstorm over Kathy Sierra last year.
I first became aware of the accusations of harassment indirectly - one of my Twitter follows, Mary Wallace, was discussing it with one of her follows. At first [...]

Intodit came across my radar this week as a new platform for easy group creation. I am already a devoted fan of Ning as a platform for creating and managing groups, so I was interested to see someone else's interpretation of the concept. After checking out the Intodit platform I can say that they missed many of the key features that make Ning so popular.
The first issue I had with Intodit was one of appearance. I've been spoiled by [...]

Most of the social geeks out there are more than aware of the recent Twitter issues that have been happening off and on for a week or so now. Slowdown, errors, and even complete downtime have plagued the popular update and communicating medium, and like all good tech nerds, many were frustrated by the downtime and dysfunction. Thankfully, the good group at Twitter responded to the complaints and downtime, and have apologized as well as explained the real problems that [...]

At the risk of participating in a little more blogosphere navel-gazing, one of the strange things I've seen in FriendFeed is the conversations that break out there completely out of the blue. Whether it's due to the frequent Twitter outages, or just a different way of looking at a lifestreaming service, I'm not sure, but people are starting conversations completely unrelated to any content fed into the site.
In the course of one such conversation (about FriendFeed and its use, of [...]

We first covered Iterasi back in January, when they launched at DEMO, and were disappointed that our signals crossed when they launched their public beta earlier this month. Alex Williams, Director of Product Marketing for Iterasi, was kind enough to talk to me about where they are and where they are heading after the launch to fill me in on what's been happening over the past few months:
Cyndy: How much of the functionality promised in the demo has been rolled [...]

When I first saw the notification that P0pulist, a Particles / Massively Small Product application, went live, I thought I would be reviewing another Spokeo or similar application made for stalking keeping up with your friends online. It is a bit like Spokeo, Plaxo and other tracking applications in that it follows what your friends are doing online, but it also offers a few more features that I liked quite a bit.
It uses the Plaxo API engine to import [...]

And to call it a journal is truly unfair, but for lack of a better term, I'll settle for really fantastic super travel journal.  Now that your interest is no doubt aroused to some degree or another, here's exactly what SoSauce is: SoSauce is a new platform on which you can record everything that goes down on your vacations, from the route you took to your photos and journals, all on one very clean, appealing platform. I could be wrong, but later [...]

I may be heading toward a future as a Steven Hodson acolyte, because I'm starting to feel a little bit too cranky about some of the latest entrants into the Web 2.0 space. I'm all about democracy in site creation and user-generated content, but I guess I draw the line at letting the unwashed masses mess with my PBS content.
I'm really thinking about not renewing my annual donation based on the concept of YourWeek, a weekly television program whose content [...]

For those looking for an alternative to the rather lengthy list of video players already available to web publishers, Userplane is certain its new and ingeniusly named Mediaplayer will appeal to those looking to bring video content to their respective websites. If you are a fan of existing Userplane applications, then Mediaplayer could certainly be right up your alley.
Userplane is a direct subsidiary of the AOL group, and has been slowly building a library of publishing applications since 2001. Currently Userplane has a gaggle [...]