Category: Web 2.0
This week's Top 5 new Facebook applications
Facebook’s new Applications section goes from strength to strength, with a wide array of Web 2.0 companies producing widgets for the social networking site.
The Trojan virus that pretends to be a YouTube video
You might think ‘tubing’ is one of those deviant sexual practices that lurks in the moist corners of the internetweb. And it probably is. But it’s also a new term coined by security firm Websense, to describe a nefarious new hacking technique that sees a nasty Trojan horse masquerading as a YouTube video.
Hate the 2012 London Olympics logo? Boycott it with Ben Way's help
Around Shiny Towers we love 26-year-old entrepreneur Ben Way something silly, and it’s not just because we used to share an office with him. No, it’s for his great schemes, like this new un’ he launched via Facebook today.
We already know how horrible the Lisa-Simpson-performing-fellatio-esque 2012 London Olympics logo is, but Ben hates it for a different reason – because of the sponsors, Lloyds TSB being one of them. He is pledging £1 of his own money (he was a millionaire at 15, so can definitely afford it), for every person who signs up via…
Review: Ask3D – Ask's revamped search engine
I’m choosing to forget Ask’s rather bizarre ‘propaganda’ advertising of their new search “Ask 3D” search engine as I take a look at how effective it is as a tool, and whether it’s going to pose a threat to Google.
There’s more to Ask3D than the slightly shiny, icon-based eye candy that greets you when you arrive at their front page.
Both Google and Ask are keen to offer a more holistic approach to search results. A search for “Steve Jobs” in Google brings up the usual listing of results, but interspersed with news and video. It’s easy to find these items by scrolling through the results, but they’re not particularly distinct at first glance.
Ask, on the other hand, clearly separates regular web pages, listed in the middle column, from multimedia content and the latest news, displayed in sections in the right-hand column. It’s an elegant layout, marred only slightly by the “Sponsored Results” boxes which don’t integrate as well as their Google counterparts, and can sometimes take up to half of the screen before search results are displayed.
Last.fm Plus application goes live on Facebook
One of the most hotly-awaited Facebook apps was the one by music service Last.fm, which went live last week (you can add it to your profile by clicking here). However, users have been grumbling about bugs, missing features or simply that it isn’t living up to their expectations.
YouTube star Esmee Denters signs to Justin Timberlake's record label
Forget American Idol: 21 million YouTube views is what you need to get a record deal nowadays. At least, that’s the implication of the news that Dutch teenager Esmee Denters has signed to Tennman Records on the back of her massive YouTube popularity.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 05-May-2007: Mobile phones, Pac-Man, Microsoft, 24, Japan
– Us Brits are a wasteful bunch, with 855,000 mobile phones being dropped into the toilet each year. Yes, our tariff plans really are shit.
– Today in NYC at the Pac-Man World Championships, Microsoft are due to announce something ‘big’ and ‘Pac-Man-related’. Probably a 360 Live remake or something, sigh.
– The average Brit…
Moblogging puts everyone in a foul mood for the upcoming 2012 London Olympics
Our pink-laden sister in the know, Shiny Shiny, has let it slip that this is the official logo for the 2012 London Olympics. Oh. My. Goodness. I can’t decide whether it reminds me of the costume I wore to a bad ’80s party recently, or, as a commenter on Shiny Shiny stated, (which I can’t not think about when I look at the logo), Lisa Simpson performing fellatio…
EMI partners with YouTube, makes its music available
EMI has finally struck a deal with YouTube to make its artists' videos available online. The deal that will see the likes of The Rolling Stones and Coldplay added to the video sharing site means that the two companies will…
To add or not to add, that is the question – the politics of friendships on Facebook
Katherine Hannaford writes…
Love it or loathe it, Facebook is the new MySpace…oh, and the new Twitter, the new Flickr and pretty much every other work-shirker time-waster known to man, thanks to opening themselves up to third-party developers.
But how much is too much? Is there such a thing as being too involved in the social-networking service? And just how many friends is acceptable – is there a stigma attached to Facebook in the same manner as with MySpace, where those with fewer than 10 friends are deemed social pariahs?
Just how much is too much?
