Posts Tagged with ‘widgets’

This certainly isn’t the most pressing news of the day, but I figured I’d give it a mention anyway, considering how absolutely vital it is for the future of Web 2.0 that the largest social network on the Internet today actually look half presentable.
Yes, yes, if Tom Anderson, co-founder and President of MySpace, goes through with his proposed plan, the social network will by default no longer look…well, like rubbish. Member pages will indeed appear reasonably well structured. Some even [...]

VeZoom is an online video search engine that has been putting in some hard work to increase its service's features and its footprint across the web. Two weeks ago, Profy featured a review of MyVeZoom, which provides users with a customizable interface to locate videos from. Now, the service is out recruit from the crowd of bloggers.
Riding on the wave of the popularity of online video, VeZoom has come up with a development that combines video with RSS [...]

There are days when I think I should have a t-shirt that says "I survived Web 1.0" so that I'm easily identified as a bit of a skeptic when it comes to the next wave of cool new toys. My husband worked for a 1.0 start-up for five years. Many of our friends also worked for start-ups, often moving from start-up to start-up like tiny ants hopping from one domino to another as they fell during the dot-com bust. So [...]

Today Me.dium is announcing full compatibility with IE-7. Me.dium has been available for Firefox and Flock since February and the Explorer version has been much anticipated. In addition, the developers have created a widget that applies Me.dium's “real time” window to blogs and other pages.
The new widget may well steal the news, as this tool extends Me.dium's “Web discovery” aspect to other sites. Bloggers and site owners can now observe traffic patterns, visitors and friends in and around their pages. Non-Medium [...]

Today, Pageflakes, the customizable web homepage service, has added a flurry of new features to their growing service. Known as the Blizzard release, the service now has social networking capabilities, themable public pages and over 240,000 possible widgets to choose from (compared with only 10,000 previously).
Pageflake users now get their own profile page which will allow them to add other users as friends and get connected with what other users are doing, similar to social networks such as MySpace and [...]

News Corp. bought Myspace two years ago for $580 million. Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion less than a year ago. Yahoo! offered $1 billion for Facebook, but was ultimately turned down. Even the domain name Vodka.com was sold for $3 million last year. What exactly am I trying to get at here? The fact that there is a lot of money to be made on the internet through the sale of web services and domain names. Perhaps that is even what spurred [...]

We are now at a point at which only a week, one heavy with anticipation, separates consumers from the official US release of a product millions eagerly wish to own. The iPhone. And already, a developer has established an application directory assembled specifically for users of the device. It’s called AddFone.
If you’re keeping up with announcements of Web apps crafted for the iPhone, you’ll know from the start that the directory will be considerably sparse by the time of [...]

I was laughing at Twitter, I thought it was absolutely useless and saw no sense at all. But after at least 10 people asked how could I, a blogger, avoid twittering I finally gave up. It proved easier than I thought and takes less time (check this post by Robert Sanzalone on twittering from Skype, this makes using Twitter incredibly easy). So after I found a way to Twitter and get updates from people I'm interested in easily I was [...]

Spinlets is another great tool being developed in an invitation only beta environment. The new service will allow users a practical, easy to use, customizable and best of all a free platform for rich media API integration into web pages and blogs. The Spinlet API features a library of customization tools that enable seamless integration of media while providing “mashup” capability and enhanced content portability. The current Spinlets available for testing include YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Twitter, Craigslist and Google Maps with [...]