Tag: web 2.0
This week's Top 10 new Facebook applications
Facebook is going from strength to strength, as the nation’s thirtysomethings finally find a social network that doesn’t make them feel like a pervy uncle. And new Facebook applications are springing up by the hour, as users get the hang of customising their profiles with all manner of widgety goodness.
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: Recruiting Grounds
Meet gamers just like you. Then kill them. That’s the premise behind most decent online console games. And the same is true of Recruiting Grounds. Except without the killing part. See, it’s a social networking site for gamers, fed up with MySpace’s focus on the music crowd.
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: Eye-Fi
Imagine if you didn’t even have to think about transferring photos from your digital camera to your PC before uploading them to the internetweb. It’d be much better if they just made their own way online, without you having to bother.
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day – Date: Unknown
MySpace, Facebook, Bebo… they’re all about bringing people together. Spreading love and understanding. Allowing complete strangers to perv at each others’ photos before hooking up via webcam to discover that neither is as buff as their camera angles made out. It’s a beautiful thing.
Veoh takes on Joost and Babelgum in the Telly 2.0 war
Just a couple of days ago I was writing about how online TV is set to explode in the next six months, thanks to firms like Joost and Babelgum. Now another startup has joined the fray: Veoh Networks. It launched its VeohTV service today, in beta naturally.
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: RemoTV
Sling Media isn’t the only placeshifting company in town, y’know. There are several firms looking to make money out of letting you stream your music, video and photos from your PC to your mobile phone. RemoTV is the latest one to go live. Well, go live in a beta stylee, anyway.
YouTube unveils new video mash-up tool
YouTube has always been idiot-proof to use: you just upload your video, assign it some tags, and watch tens millions of hits flood in. But the lack of any more whizzy editing options has always been a source of frustration to keener users, especially as rival video-sharing sites unveiled their own video remixing tools.
Top 5 new Facebook applications: Sudoku, Big Brother, Russian Roulette and more…
Cor. Facebook launched their applications a few weeks ago now, and they’ve taken off like a rocket. I’ve noticed friends signing up to six or seven a day, even the ones who wouldn’t normally know a Web 2.0 widget if it bit them on the nose. Here’s this week’s five new(ish) Facebook apps worth adding to your profile, anyway.
NMK 2007: Jaiku's five principles for building Web 2.0 success
There’s been a helluva buzz around Twitter in recent months, but coming up strongly is rival firm Jaiku, which has taken the principle of micro-blogging and stuck a rocket up its backside. That’s a technical term, obviously…
Jaiku’s Jyri Engeström gave a keynote presentation at today’s NMK Forum 07, and set out his five principles to building a great Web 2.0 service, revolving around the idea of ‘social objects’. Read on for the full skinny on how to make yourself an e-millionnaire (probably).
