Category: Web 2.0
John McCain's MySpace page reverse hacked
Today, Senator John McCain announced that he likee-likee the lesbians. As part of his bid for the White House, McCain got himself a MySpace page. However, the staffer who built it used the template created by ">Mike Davidson without…
Why your MySpace profile could lose you that dream job
Picture the scene. You’ve made it to the final round of interviews for an amazing job, offering a huge salary, a wealth of benefits, and more minions than you’d know what to do with. You’re sailing through the questions with aplomb, and the job’s in the bag.
Bebo gives bands the option to sell music online
Bebo has done a deal with 7digital, offering any of the 450,000 bands listed on the site the use of a 7digital widget to sell their music from their site page using 7digital's indiestore software. Acts signed-up through Bebo Bands…
NBC Universal and News Corporation team up for YouTube killer
It can’t be much fun being in charge of YouTube at the moment. Not only is the site being sued by Viacom for $1bn for copyright infringement by its users, but it’s about to come up against a hefty rival.
MySpace bums out Tila Tequila with widget restrictions
Not heard of Tila Tequila yet? She’s one of the rising stars on MySpace, with over 1.7 million friends – a following that helped her land a record deal. Yet she’s not exactly chuffed with MySpace at the moment, after the site asked her to take down a widget she’d uploaded to her profile to sell tunes.
Doggysnaps – social networking for your dog
Social networking is big business right now – and that includes dogs, courtesy of Doggysnaps. It's an online photo-sharing site for canine enthusiasts all over the world, stuffed with dog photos, forums and blogs. All by the owners obviously -…
Forget Crufts: it's time for the Virtual Cat Show
Some dog or other won Crufts last week: I won’t be interested until they let mongrels into the grand final and include a round where the dogs are rated on their ability to bark “Sausages” on demand.
25 UK Web 2.0 startups to watch in 2007
You don’t have to be based in Silicon Valley to rake in millions of venture capital funding for your whizzy Web 2.0 idea, but it helps. Nevertheless, there’s a thriving bunch of Web 2.0 startups here in the UK too, even if they don’t fall into an easily classifiable scene or movement.
Piczo talks UK growth, hints at mobile strategy
Piczo might not be the biggest social network in the world, but it’s growing fast (4.5 million unique monthly users in the UK) and has had some people suggesting it’s the latest destination for the cooler teenagers who previously hung out on MySpace and Bebo.