Tag: web 2.0
Nokia and Facebook may partner to enhance mobile social networking
Rumours are emerging that Nokia is in talks with Facebook to port the generally still-in-favour social network to its range of handsets. Sources have suggested that this could be as prominent a placement as the “YouTube” button is on Apple’s iPhone.
Facebook could benefit from Nokia’s advertising campaigns in retail outlets, and there’s even the possibility of Nokia “doing a Microsoft” and buying a stake in the young company.
Corporate logos reinvented in a web 2.0 stylee? Yes please!
Unfortunately on the designer’s site there’s not much information about these logos which have been web 2.0-ified, but need we know any more details than what that little Photoshop collage can provide?!
There’s about 60-odd logos which are instantly recognisable to most people, which have been put through various filters in imaging…
Facebook's five-thousand friend limit hit by Mark Cuban. Time to start deleting
DId you know that Facebook has a limit to the number of people who can be added as “friends”? To be honest, I didn’t, but apparently if you try to add more than 5,000 people, you’re told that you’ve hit the upper limit.
I suppose when Facebook was first dreamt up, the creators thought that no-one would add even one-fifth of that many links to their account, but Mark Cuban is one person who has.
It’s happened because Facebook is used quite a lot as a way of linking up with people that you might have something in common with, even if you’ve never met them or had a meaningful online relationship.
Shiny Review: BBC's "tenth anniversary" home page
To mark the BBC’s tenth anniversary online, they’ve revamped their online presence with the introduction of a new beta version of their home page.
Labelled “BBC Beta”, which is a little concerning as it sounds as if the whole of the Corporation is now in test mode, the new front page offers an iGoogle-style interface which is customisable with various content widgets.
It’s possible to choose to display a range of excerpts of the BBC’s content, including local, national, and world news, TV and radio listings, sport, weather, blogs, entertainment, and history.
w00t! w00t! Merriam-Webster high-fives new word
The excitable visitors of Merriam-Webster's website have crowned "w00t" as word of the year. They got to choose from twenty words and phrases picked from those most searched for on the dictionary's site. It's not been included in the print…
Piczo to make leap into mobile social networking
There’s a big buzz around mobile social networking at the moment, for logical reasons. For those youngsters who spend hours a day in MySpace, Bebo, Facebook or Piczo, mobile phones are just as central to their lives.
Doof.com aims to cross casual games with social networking
Get set for social gaming! What’s that? Gaming is social already? Oh… Okay, so Doof.com’s big claim that it’s a “pioneer of social gaming” is more marketing message than reality. Games have always been social, whether played huddled round a C64 or SNES, or played online on Xbox Live. However, that doesn’t mean Doof isn’t an innovative site.
Facebook bows to mass criticism but doesn't abolish snooping Beacon service
Though, on the surface, the idea of being able to let your Facebook friends know when you've bought a movie ticket or are going to travel to some far-flung destination seems good, when it comes to how the social networking…
Fring launches VoIP widget for social networks and blogs
VoIP firm Fring has continued its expansion with the launch of fringME (there’s an exclamation mark on the end of that too, but if I ain’t doing it for Yahoo, I ain’t doing it for Fring either – they should be pleased they get the capitals on the end frankly).
The seven Next Big Web 2.0 Things (according to Silicon Valley experts)
Twitter? Schmitter! Facebook? SO early 2007. iLike? Don’t make me laugh! All of these companies are OLD HAT when it comes to Web 2.0 buzz, if you’re a zeitgeist-surfing web evangelist looking for bleeding-edge new beta stars. Or something.
