Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’

Barack Obama and Ron Paul aren't the only two politicians who've made the most out of Web 2.0 tools in running their campaigns. Just like her Western counterparts, 89-year-old grandmother and Malaysian parliament candidate Maimun Yusuf has turned to the Internet for her campaign, fighting for a parliament seat controlled by Malaysian's current ruling coalition. [...]

The news popped up on Twitter almost immediately; YouTube was down. After the Amazon S3 outage earlier this month, I'm sure everyone was wondering if YouTube was to blame or Google themselves had gone down. We now know what happened; in Pakistan's attempt to block the video-sharing site due to what it considered to be [...]

FriendFeed seems to be the aggregator on everyone's Facebook profile these days. Made up entirely of ex-Googlers, it seems to have taken off, at least as my updates seem to keep telling me. Linking up feeds from 28 supported services (including the usual StumbleUpons, Twitters, YouTubes, and Flickrs), FriendFeed allows you to keep up with [...]

Gamers have been waiting for more than two years for Spore, the release from Sims creator Will Wright that has been rumored to be vaporware. With a final release date given as September 7, 2008, the wait finally has an end date. But what does Spore have to do with Web 2.0? Spore will be [...]

CNN bought into the citizen journalism movement 18 months ago with iReport, but most user-created submissions have never made it to the site. Later this week, however, CNN will launch iReport.com, a site that will contain solely user-created content, from videos to photos to stories. Unlike the iReport feature, however, the content on iReport.com will [...]

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, [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And [...]

I've heard dribs and drabs of news about Spokeo over the past year, but it took a push from Guy Kawasaki's blog over the holidays to actually get me to log in and check it out. Spokeo, if you haven't heard about it, is an all-in-one aggregator for all your social networking sites, from Amazon [...]

Slashdot featured a little story over the Christmas holiday about my favorite on-again, off-again love affairs: Google. I was going to comment on it yesterday but thought maybe the stress of the holiday season might be getting to me, and since I'd just raked Wikimedia over the coals, I thought I'd bask in my Christmas [...]