Category: Web 2.0
Facebook lifting 5,000 friend limit is "a fake rumor" according to Loic Le Meur
This is Robert Scoble. He has too many friends on Facebook as you can see. Many others share similar plights – Jason Calacanis, comedian Jimmy Carr, heck – even Yoko Ono.
French blogger-turned web entrepreneur, Loic Le Meur (see my video interview with him here), whilst approaching that 5,000 friend limit fast, has published a post on his personal blog, drenching water all over that fiery hot rumour of recent times, that Facebook was soon to be lifting the 5,000 friend limit, claiming “it was a fake rumor”…
AOL combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ into "People Networks", looks to expand globally
A couple of months from AOL’s announcement of its intentions to buy Bebo, the $850m deal has been sealed.
Though exact details of future plans and money involved isn’t clear, it seems AOL is keen to push Bebo into other countries, particularly those in Europe, as well as creating “People Networks”, a new community platform combining Bebo, AIM, and ICQ…
Vodafone acquires mobile contacts web service ZYB
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US mum charged over teen's MySpace suicide horror
Here’s something sad and depressing to get you in the mood for a weekend of sitting inside watching TV and being miserable.
49-year-old mother Lori Drew allegedly created a fake MySpace account under the pretence of being a 16-year-old boy. Lori is alleged to have then befriended 13-year-old neighbour Megan Meier while pretending to be the boy, formed an online relationship…
CloudTrade launches beta music sharing service for smartphones
CloudTrade. the social network which allows people to share video and music content online and potentially rack up points for popular content and interacting with advertisers, has announced its beta music sharing service, currently offering around 250 music tracks from the two record labels it has signed up.
It’s another service offering free content in exchange for watching ads, and is being targeted at the younger generation who typically have a lot of time and interest in new music, but no money…
Google intros Friend Connect to bring social networking fun to any web site
Google has announced a preview version of Friend Connect, a service which allows any registered web site to offer its visitors social networking and interactive features, and take advantage of much larger sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Google Talk, hi5,…
Scarlett Johansson's album "Anywhere I Lay My Head" up for sampling on Napster
Yes, really. This is not a May 12 Fools joke.
Everyone’s favourite large-chested, pasty-faced art house actress has only gone and done an album of songs. She’s called it “Anywhere I Lay My Head” – an invitation to lewd comments if ever there was – and you can listen to bits of it RIGHT NOW on Napster.
Subscribers to whatever service it is Napster’s running these days can stream…
MySpace to share your details with eBay, Twitter and Yahoo but only if you want
It’s funny, isn’t it? On the one hand we have infinite remote security where you have to tell someone the middle name of the first person you snogged before you can buy an ice-cream over the phone and then online we’re chucking personal information about like there’s no tomorrow.
Sites like Facebook have seen us divulge everything short of our bank details – although I’m sure an application for that is on its way – and now it seems they’re going to share their info with each other – with our consent of course.
MySpace has launched MySpace Data Availability as part the Yahoo Open Social Foundation…
Stephen Fry mocks the "incredible naivety" of the BBC's iPlayer
Speaking in one of a series of lectures organised by the BBC to inform the debate over public service broadcasting, legendary actor and comedian Stephen Fry hit out at the BBC iPlayer downloadable content service. “There is this marvellous idea the iPlayer is secure,” he said. “It’s anything but secure.”
TorrentSpy tortured even after death – US court fines closed bittorrent site $110m
Closing their Bittorrent portal TorrentSpy was not enough to save founders Justin Bunnell and Wes Park from getting hammered by the US courts to the tune of $110m.
Justin and Wes’s company Valence Media has been ordered to pay the enormous fine to the Motion Picture Association of America for enabling mass copyright infringement…
