Tag: Social networking
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: Tapatap
Tapatap is a US-based startup with an interesting spin on the social networking phenomenon. The best way I can describe it is like Flickr meets Am I Hot Or Not?, since the idea is to create ‘contests’ where you and friends upload photos and then rate each others’ to decide which is best.
Apple iPhone application development: can't do right by some
Andy Merrett writes…
Thanks to the amount of hype and spin surrounding the iPhone, it seems that, when it comes to third party applications, Apple can’t do right by some people.
Apple were criticised right from the start when it looked as if they wouldn’t offer any kind of third-party application support for the iPhone.
Now that their initial solution has been unveiled – Web 2.0 and AJAX – they’re being slated again. Pick a derogatory word about Apple’s solution and it’s probably been used against them.
It seems few people stop to consider that this is Apple’s first-generation iPhone. As with the first Apple TV, the first iPod, the first Mac, the first iMac, or the first MacBook Pro, it will have first-generation functionality.
Everyone knows that future generations of the iPhone will feature more functionality. Take a look at the evolution of the iPod, now imagine what an iPhone could look like in five years’ time.
NMK 2007: Social networks dominated by "white, middle-class males"
More sparky debate from today’s NMK 07 Forum in London, which Kat is liveblogging. Jemima Gibbons from Interactiveknowhow put the cat among the pigeons in the day’s second debate, by claiming that social networking sites are dominated by white, middle-class males.
Could Facebook's third-party applications be a MySpace killer?
That’s what top venture capitalist Josh Kopelman reckons, anyway. Okay, so he doesn’t say the phrase ‘MySpace killer’, but he suggests that Facebook’s new third-party applications could leave MySpace looking like Prodigy or AOL from the early days of the internet, who tried to hang onto their roles as proprietary gatekeepers until they realised everyone else had moved on.
Charging to access MySpace's WAP site? Is Vodafone crazy?
Dave wrote earlier about the fact that Vodafone has launched a MySpace WAP site on its Vodafone Live portal, in advance of a downloadable application coming later in the summer. Since it’s part of an exclusive deal, for now this is the only way us Brits will be able to access MySpace on our phones.
BBC demos Web 2.0 style Radio 1 personalisation service
The BBC has been showing off a prototype system dripping with Web 2.0 social networking interaction goodness at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas. Using Microsoft's Silverlight software and Windows Live Messenger, the BBC has created a prototype system that…
Orange Pay-Off: 15 seconds to be a sexy, weird, dancer
Orange has launched its Pay-Off contest and is inviting its customers to submit 10-15 second video clips of themselves either trying to prove that they’re the sexiest person alive (Face-off), are the best/craziest dancer (Dance-off), or are just plain weird but couldn’t muster a longer clip on YouTube (Weird-off).
The best videos are entered into a series of play-off rounds, where users vote for their favourite and the winner then has to face a new challenge – though what that is isn’t clear yet.
Adopting a child Web 2.0 style: Couple turns to MySpace
A couple from Michigan who have spent five years trying to conceive has now turned to the MySpace social network to try to find suitable birth parents so that they can adopt a child.
BT's new social network for businesses
It’s called BT Tradespace, and it’s basically a MySpace for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs) who want a new way to engage with their customers.
Facebook gets a facelift: social networking site evolves
Facebook, America's number two social networking site, has enjoyed massive growth over the past six months has had a facelift and additional features, as it becomes a mainstream site eclipsed only by MySpace. About six months ago, the site faced…
