Archive for May, 2008

Twitter Waffles On TOS, Treats It Like A Game of Darts

Leslie Poston

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 [...]

Intodit Wants to be Ning, Can’t Do It

Leslie Poston

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 [...]

The Twitter Team Responds to Criticism

Triston McIntyre

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 [...]

The Social Contract Does Not Exist

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

Iterasi: Out of Private Beta and Open for Business

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

p0pulist: Social Lists and More

Leslie Poston

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 [...]

SoSauce Cooks Up the Ultimate Travel Journal

Triston McIntyre

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 [...]

YourWeek: I Hope PBS Is Ready for Undersexed Housewives at Disney

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

Userplane Adds Mediaplayer to Fleet of Publishing Apps

Triston McIntyre

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 [...]

It Makes Great Valleywag, but What Does Jimmy Mean for Safe Harbor?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

The legal standing of much of Web 2.0 is based on the U.S. concept of safe harbor, which essentially means that no web site operator can be held accountable for anything posted on their site by the users. I'm no lawyer, and turned to an excellent breakdown of what safe harbor is and what laws [...]