Archive for June, 2008
Educational Benefits Of Social Networking
Monday, June 23rd, 2008In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their counterparts, going against what results from previous studies have suggested.
The study found that, […]
Online video viewing still rising
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 eMarketer.com: Online Video Viewing Still Rising. Excerpt:
Internet users in the US watched 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, up 13% over February 2008 and 64% over March 2007, according to comScore Video Metrix. That is an average of 83 videos watched per viewer during March.
Online video viewing is a mainstream activity for […]
What is Web 2.0? by Mcglaysia
Monday, June 16th, 2008Web 2.0 is approaching being passe but it is still interesting to me that the term has varying meanings depending on who you ask. I found this today on the new Microsoft World Wide Telescope website:
“Web 2.0 is the next generation of the World Wide Web wherein technologies and social practices use metadata […]
The usefulness of online video by Antonio
Friday, June 13th, 2008For me, the power of YouTube has always been about one thing: being able to bookmark pieces of interesting mainstream content that could then be forwarded around in email. For every genius amateur video I’ve been sent, I’ve had 5 young Asian guitar virtuosos and 100 SNL skits, Simpsons scenes, or Daily Show interviews. […]
Google software lets any Web site add social networking
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Google Inc. on Monday plans a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that enables any site on the Web to provide social networking features for its visitors.
Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said Friend Connect lets any Web site owner add a snippet of code to get social features up and running […]
Online Video Guide (OVGuide.com) Adds Value to Online Video
Monday, June 9th, 2008In a recent press release, OVGuide.com, the Internet’s most comprehensive guide to online video, TV shows, movies and video games, has a solution to maximize revenue for it’s online video guide.
OVGuide.com categorizes all video content scattered across the Web in one, centralized location. A top-200 US Web site(1), the company is a valuable Internet […]
Guide to Online Video from Jim Kukral
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Jim Kukral has launched a free series on how to create video on the Internet.
The videos shot with a Flip video camera and they are displayed in the new video player from SmugMug. It’s impressive how sharp the quality is with such an affordable camera and video host.
But as Jim shares, it comes down […]
Mobile social networking space getting crowded
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 About 200 companies worldwide are focusing most or all of their attention on the mobile-social-networking market, and the number is growing.
A few global web powerhouses, such as Google, Yahoo and eBay, are even turning their attention to this market. The majority of players, however, are smaller software companies that are developing applications or […]
MySpace, Facebook and Google: Racing For Web 3.0
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 I came across this article on OnlineSPIN and I just had to share it.
MySpace, Facebook and Google have all recently made "major" announcements regarding the future of how their platforms will play with the rest of the Web. I put major in quotes because a majority of the functionality announced isn’t yet available to […]