Tag: Web 2.0
YouTube video player gets a revamp
With about, ooh, 837 different video-sharing services out there, you can’t rest on your laurels even if you’re the top banana. It seems Google has been beavering away on an all-new YouTube video player, with some subtle yet welcome tweaks to make it a bit more interactive.
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.
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.
MySpace News is no Digg-killer
MySpace has just put its new MySpace News service live, so I’ve been playing around with it. The service has been billed as a Digg-killer, but it’s not really – at least, not in its current form. It’s a news-aggregation service with user voting, but with an extra layer of moderation in between the original news sources, and what gets onto the site itself.
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…
VH1 charts Web celebs: Numa Numa Kid, Denny Blaze, lonelygirl15, Perez Hilton…
Poor The Turkish Guy. Mahir Cagri was once the biggest web sleb in the world, thanks to his infamous ‘I Kiss You!’ website, and numerous parodies. Now, however, his star has fallen, and he’s only made it to number 33 in a Greatest Internet Superstars chart produced for VH1’s Web Junk show.
Web 2.0 is "digital Maoism" says Virtual Reality guru
Jaron Lanier was one of the Virtual Reality pioneers in the 1980s (i.e. Second Life is all his fault), but he's not keen on this Web 2.0 lark. At all. Interviewed by the BBC World Service, he criticises the latest…
Top 10 things Dell customers want from the company
Thumbs up to Dell for the launch of its IdeaStorm website, which asks customers what new products and/or services they'd like Dell to launch, then gets them to vote on the best ones. So what are they asking for? At…
3GSM 2007: We're off
Hi, this is Ashley. We just landed in Barcelona, I'm here for 3GSM. It's the world biggest, best & sometimes quite controversial Mob. phone exhibition. There are many, many big names here from Sony Ericsson & Nokia to content companies…
Interview: Phanfare co-founder Mark Heinrich on the death of free photo-sharing services
While at CES last week, I caught up with Mark Heinrich, chief technology officer and co-founder of Phanfare. It's an online photo and video sharing service that stands out through its use of a subscription model, charging $54.95 a year….
