Archive for March, 2008
Impressive Splashcast Among First To Launch Apps On Myspace
Posted on Mar 16, 2008 08:15:03 PM
Today,
Splashcast was early to jump on the Facebook platform (and Bebo’s too), and was among the first to offer its services to other clients that wanted an integrated application as well. Now that the MySpace platform has finally launched its first approved applications, Splashcast was ready with a distributed plan to roll out applications for its clients across the MySpace network as well. This includes SonyBMG, Universal Records, Warner, and even Hillary Clinton.
The applications work very much like Splashcast’s original product, with dynamically updated video channels, streaming music and clips, and the Fan Channel option, which lets other users submit their own content from mobile phones, computers or YouTube to the client’s splashcast player as well. The goal here is to leverage the social graph that the MySpace platform allows, just as with other platform implementations.
It remains to be seen how well the MySpace social graph will actually be able to be used for such purposes, in connecting users at a deeper level. MySpace has been steadily rolling out those native features, like Friend Feeds , that actually allow for applications to spread across friends in a fluid, internal manner.
Of course, Facebook already had a great many features that allowed for easy access and sharing capabilities amongst users, so its architecture was already set in place for third party developers to potentially reach a number of users with one application. With MySpace still reigning as the top social network on the web, the anticipation and pressure is high, so we’ll be keeping a watchful eye on the use of MySpace apps.
Source A Privacy Group Paints Much Of The World In Black
Posted on Mar 16, 2008 07:32:14 AM
Admin wrote: The United States, Britain, Russia and China are painted with the same broad brush as “endemic surveillance societies.”
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Brand New Network Privacy Debate Hits Close To Home (and We Have The Pictures To Prove It!)
Posted on Mar 15, 2008 09:21:05 AM
Today, Online privacy is an issue that has consistently found it’s way into the headlines. From the debate over Facebook’s collection and distribution of user info, to Google Street View’s posting of images that some wish they hadn’t.Last month it was Facebook’s Beacon application that had Internet users up in arms. The immensely popular social network seemed to be catering to advertisers without an easy, or apparent opt-out for its users. Berkman Fellow David Weinberger catalogued the techniques employed by Facebook in a post where he surmised that,”Facebook is getting privacy right where privacy is taken as a matter of information transfer. But it is getting privacy wrong as a norm. Our expectation is that our transactions at one site are neither to be made known to other sites nor made known to our friends. We may well want to let our friends know what we’ve bought, but the norm and expectation is that we will not. Software defaults generally ought to reflect the social defaults. And when you’re as important as Facebook two billion page views a day your software’s defaults can nudge the social defaults.”With the outpouring of complaints that followed the disclosure of Facebook’s information gathering, changes were rapidly made. StopBadware.org a Berkman Center project that serves as a “neighborhood watch” for malware online reported on these changes, while cautioning that not all issues were resolved and that they hoped Facebook would become “a leader in user privacy.”Just today, with Google’s announcement of their Street View function encompassing Boston (and Cambridge too!), privacy flags immediately went up. Concerns have been voiced since the imaging became available, yet the uses and mashup possibilities have led the company to continue undeterred with their ever-growing image cataloging. …
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Brand New Impressive Hoping To Replicate Us Success, Apple Launches Iphone In Germany, Britain
Posted on Mar 14, 2008 09:55:16 PM
Admin wrote: Customers in Germany and Britain lined up to buy the iPhone as it made its European debut on Friday, with Apple Inc. hoping to replicate overseas the success it has had in the United States.
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Brand New Network Flektor And Myspace Officially Unite
Posted on Mar 14, 2008 01:22:02 AM
Today,
Fox Interactive Media have completed the assimilation of Flektor to their collective today, and are announcing integration of MySpace log-ins into Flektors multi-media management tool suite. This does little for MySpace users, as the tool suite was already freely available to anyone who may have happened by the site, but dramatically increased the implied userbase of the online multimedia suite, making it arguably the de facto standard as they claim the entire userbase of MySpace as their own.
I’d been acquainted with the site before today. I’m not sure from where; perhaps I’d been referred to it in the past from a friend’s profile, or perhaps I’d seen it in the wilds of the blogosphere. Either way, I didn’t realize how versatile the tools offered were. They allow everything from photo hosting, slideshow, video editing, web cam broadcasting (ala UStream), in-stream quizzes and polls as well as IM and media storage.
For something that tries to be so much, they do fairly good job at it. They bill themselves as production quality media tools, and while I’d probably not go that far, it definitely has a better architectural approach at integration than Mogulus does for their video compositing solutions (although not as pretty).
Another surprising aspect was the quality of content available at the site. Most of what’s showcased on the front page is either pop-culture inspired (i.e. Weird Al appears to be a user), or fairly clever stuff (like the Threesome).
This is definitely a team to keep your eye on.
New Script Digital Literacy / Media Literacy
Posted on Mar 13, 2008 05:51:33 AM
Admin wrote: (Source: Information Services Blog (VLC))
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New Actions Want $100 For Itunes, Apple Store, Amazon Vouchers Or Cash?
Posted on Mar 12, 2008 02:46:11 PM
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Don’t forget that the first week of Deck the Trolls ends on Friday evening - the person to leave the wittiest and most insulting comments over the course of this past week will win a $100 voucher for a choice of iTunes, the Apple Store or Amazon. Alternatively, you can request the cash equivalent.
Brand New Updated Intel Earnings And Revenue Projections Disappoint Investors
Posted on Mar 12, 2008 05:05:03 AM
Admin wrote: Intel, the world’s leading computer chip maker, reported record revenue in the fourth quarter and a 51 percent profit rise, but analysts took little comfort amid fears of a slowdown in demand.
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New Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings For January 7th, 2008
Posted on Mar 11, 2008 03:47:06 PM
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The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media†websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.
Brand New Tutorial Digital Music Sales Rise In 2007, But More Slowly
Posted on Mar 10, 2008 06:15:14 PM
Today, Digital music made up 15 percent of overall industry sales last year, representing a slowing rate of growth of market share.
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