Posts Tagged with ‘myspace’

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 [...]

It's starting to seem like another Web 2.0 company is either failing or on its last legs every time my news feeds refresh. Today's victim appears to be video-sharing site Revver, which updated the site's layout and added new features a mere three months ago. The fire sale price is a mere $300,000 to $500,000, unless you count the company's debt, which is rumored to be in the $1 million range.
Revver's business model was a bit dicey to begin with; [...]

New Jersey State Law requires coverage of mental illness only if it's biologically based. Once you get past that antiquated mentality that probably allows medical insurance companies to dodge coverage on a whim, you have to wonder how they would go about proving that a condition was biologically based.
According to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, odds are eating disorders have no biological basis, and to prove it, they want your hard drive, your emails, and, oh yes, [...]

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 [...]

It wasn't enough to just go along with the useless MySpace “agreement,” New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo joined forces with State Sen. Joseph Bruno and State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver in announcing the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (E-Stop… isn't that CUTE?), which is a new bill that promises to prevent sex offenders from accessing social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
Without getting into the nitty gritty of the bill, it proposes to do this by (wait [...]

MySpace is about to gain back some of its cutting edge status by launching a separate venture that will act as a nurturing incubator for web start ups. Still in development under the guiding hands of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, the start up will offer a place for new web ventures to get their sea legs.
This new venture will be a spin off from MySpace. Reports say the name tentatively chosen is SlingShot Labs. DeWolfe said that [...]

In the wake of the Megan Meier story, MySpace has released their new “security” plan for “protecting” teens using the site. And if you can see the sarcasm dripping off my air quotes there, you are perceptive.
MySpace, in conjunction with the Attorneys General of 49 states, is forming a “landmark partnership” (their quotes, not mine, but sure, add the air quotes) to “protect children, purge predators and expunge inappropriate content including pornography.”
Apparently, however, no one ever let the Attorneys [...]

Occasionally, I get really excited reading my news feeds. I love writing about tech because tech is what I'm reading and ranting about half the time anyway, but one of the downsides to covering Web 2.0 is that you end up registering at far more sites than you will ever be able to use on a regular basis. Inevitably, you whittle down your number of regular visits, but there are always sites that get left behind, and people you may [...]

In the news this week is a story about dating in the Web 2.0 age. Who knew that one day you'd be able to not only find your mate by using a box on your desk connected to a phone, cable or satellite line, you'd be able to use the box for the actual date as well. Such is romance in the age of Googlebombing, the rise of a computer named after a fruit, gaming and Internet based [...]