Posts Tagged with ‘mashable’

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

My favorite Web 2.0 pundit, Drama 2.0 , wrote a guest article for Mashable that's generated an interesting debate about the Web 2.0 audience. In the article, Drama 2.0 asserts that Data Portability is all about the techies. While eventually, it may end up being used by the unwashed masses, the only people clamoring for the ability to port all their data from one app to another are people who are power-users of any app to begin with. In other [...]

The MySpace Developer platform, announced last June and expected to have launched much earlier than now, will finally be launched on Tuesday, February 5th according to sources at the company. Beginning today, programmers can pre-register for the MySpace API program
Amit Kapur, who has been promoted to be MySpace's new Chief Operating Officer, will oversee the new platform and has already mentioned that the API will support Google OpenSocial from the start, though few other details have been released. It has [...]

In case you are overtaxed with ad revenue stories and Google posturing, I thought it was about time for another installment of the people of Web 2.0. It has been a while since we looked at the individuals who make up our interesting virtual world, so I selected someone how is a quiet and interesting fixture among us. Steve De Chellis, or HMTKSteve across the Web, is a blogger, programmer and social networking guru that you may have noticed a [...]

Revyr is a company review service where anyone can post data about companies anonymously. The startup is in private beta testing and I tested some of its elements today. Revyr is patterned after product review sites but the reviews come from the public at large, employees and former employees. Anyone can post a review on a company (without fear of discovery) by filling in various text and form fields. This user submitted data is collected to provide feedback for those [...]

I was just reading a short article by a friend about the use of the term "Digg Killer" and how it is used too often and inappropriately. We all have a tendency to compare things, but why is it that everything has to be a Digg or Google killer? I guess there is nothing wrong with comparisons and they are even helpful when trying to describe a difficult concept or startup, but maybe we should all spend more time describing "the thing" than [...]

Today’s top social networks are many things. They’re popular, obviously. They’re also pretty powerful, relatively speaking. And they offer a lot of stuff in one place. Some might say too much stuff. Nonetheless, a great many people seem to find the overload to be a sign of strength.
There’s one thing, however, that the top guns in the game don’t excel with: design.
Yes, design. The field of work that (ideally) blends artistry and engineering together into products as pleasing to [...]

Now YouTube Has Stepped on the King's Blue Suede Shoes Evidently! 
Just last month we posted an article about yet another lawsuit against YouTube and Google initiated by the English Premier Soccer League. YouTube's legal woes are no great secret but the import of this "class action" suit appears to be gaining momentum as France's Tennis Federation, a French soccer league and Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. have either join or intend to join the suit. This class action suit combined with the [...]

Good design isn’t synonymous with MySpace. The default theme is terrible. Tons of custom themes have been produced, but most of them are patently nasty.
You pay a visit to the average MySpace page, and amid the music set to auto play, the completely disjointed layout and the contrast between the ads, the menu at the top, and many of the spaces below often looking so bad it happens to induce laughter, there seems little or no room for improvement. It’s [...]