Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Unblocking MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Hi5. It isn't difficult, in the end. Basically all you need is to find a decent free proxy server, which hasn't been banned yet by network admins.
Once you find the proxy, you simply enter the address of MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, or Hi5 ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I have been checking these two social networking websites out a bit. They are both well-designed tools for submitting news. They both appear to be based around blog content (which is a good idea to me).
So far neither of the websites seem to have huge installed userbases, but ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Everyone knows how much the teeny boppers love MySpace and Facebook, but they aren't exactly the kind of sites that a more genteel and older crowd would enjoy. So, British insurer Saga has decided to make a new social networking website just for that crowd.
Saga Zone aims to attract ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
If you're a big hitter like Forbes, you can block access to your articles by making people click on a "Welcome Screen", which most sane people actually call "an interstitial ad". If you were regularjoeswebsite.com, you could never get away with something as crappy as that. And therein ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Now that is sort of comical. The former portal at Netscape.com has now been moved to Propeller.com and the Netscape domain has been re-directed to a subdomain at AOL. That really is progress. The one-time brainchild of Jason Calacanis is still ostensibly alive at the new address, ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
One of the greatest innovations in web development, for my money, has to be the introduction of CSS. Learning CSS is not terribly difficult, and it makes designing any type of website an extremely easy process for almost anyone. The best part about CSS is that how such ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
MySpace has been rumored to be getting tougher on spam, and now a new lawsuit indicates this is true. And it looks like MySpace spam has a lot of the same players as email spam. The defendant named in the newest case, is no stranger to email spam, ...
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Many people have mentioned the possible demise of Myspace, but it doesn't appear like it's happening anytime soon. The website is already considered to be the world's third largest and now they're expanding into Europe with a French-language site. France has a huge social networking crowd, but MySpace ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
I guess just about anyone could see this coming. Valleywag calls this post the Calacanis Effect and shows some leaked internal traffic numbers that show the re-designed Netscape has gone straight in the crapper. I guess there was no question that such a mediocre website, which pushed out ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Recent reports concerning the demographics of social websites like Myspace have been showing different results than many people expected. In fact, the people were older than most would have expected. Myspace has a great number of people over the age of 35.
As top social networking sites mature and ...
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