The nature of projects like Twitter’s @Anywhere and Facebook’s Graph API open up a lot of opportunities for the web. This is not only for developers, but for average web users as well. The key lies in the fact that these technologies rely on simple languages like HTML and Javascript. No advanced development skills are [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Google Buys BumpTop
Bumptop is a freeform desktop application that break out of the usual ways you might expect an operating system to behave. Rather than your standard windows and icons setup, you have something that behaves a lot more similar to a desktop in real life. The difference here is that you get advanced tools [...]
Facebook will soon launch location-enabled status updates. I think we’ve all known this was coming, but will it really matter? Facebook has the largest and most popular social network, but I don’t think that automatically means they will overtake services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Weren’t people saying Yelp was going to kill Foursquare when they [...]
Twitter’s Anywhere platform allows you to turn any website into a Twitter application. All basic functionality that you would find in a Twitter client is supported. It appeals to your average user who just wants a fancy follow button, to more advanced business and technical users. This will be a quick walk-through on how, exactly, [...]
Scribd, the popular online document sharing site, has decided that it doesn’t see Flash in it’s future. According to co-founder Jared Friedman, “We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web [...]
According to WSJ, the federal government will use ancient rules designed for phone networks to regulate broadband lines. This is only the beginning of a huge battle, putting broadband Internet providers and phone companies against Silicon Valley and the consumer.
Net neutrality sounds like such a boring topic, but it’s very important to so many different groups [...]
Everyone’s favorite Internet calling service Skype will be conducting a public beta test for a new group video chat function. This will allow up to five people participate in a video call at the same time. While this isn’t something that’s never been done before, it will definitely be awesome to have and was actually [...]
A new Facebook security hole makes it simple for your friends to read your instant messages, your instant messaging history, see your messages and friend requests. This isn’t even hard to do for the average person. There is no special technical knowledge needed. As a matter of fact, users may already be exploiting this bug [...]
There are a lot of black people on Twitter. The numbers, taken from the annual report on Twitter by Edison Research, don’t lie. While black people make up about 12% of the general population, they account for 25% of the population of users on Twitter. I always felt like this was true in my day [...]
Hip-Hop Word Count sounds like a pretty simple application. It counts the number of words in hip-hop songs or something, right? Wrong. On the surface, it may seem like HHWC performs a simple task, but it goes way deeper than that. If you have ever wanted to perform serious analysis on the music you listen [...]
Threadsy, probably the only truly integrated communications web application, launches a public beta of the service today. Threadsy is the ultimate tool for pulling yourself together. It integrates Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail into a clean and simple interface that helps you stay on top of what’s going on.
Since it was first launched in private beta [...]
Earlier today on Twitter, @IAmDiddy announced the completion of the trailer for the “most positive inspirational BLOG in THE WORLD.” Anyone who ever pays attention to tweets from Diddy is well aware of his excessively positive attitude and “LET’S GO!!!” demeanor. In addition to saying things in ALL CAPS on a regular basis and conveying urgency [...]
A few days ago, we talked briefly about Global Grind’s content scraping practices. As you may know, Global Ground is like Digg for the hip-hop community. They cover hip-hop stories, celebrity gossip, entertainment, and more. This is a pretty broad selection of content, so many bloggers were shocked to find that Global Grind had basically [...]
Using a combination of “cyber sleuthing, old-school gumshoe reporting and persistent stalking,” the folks at Wired were able to verify the identity of the guy that found the prototype iPhone at a bar an eventually sold it to Gizmodo. Not only is it a decent case study on how to find those who do not [...]
We’ve covered Posterous here on multiple occasions simply because it’s an awesome blogging service. Setting up your new blog is as simple as sending an email. It’s simple to set up, simple to maintain, and free without being overburdened with ads. Just recently, however, one user noticed something fishy going on. Posterous was converting links to [...]
