Tag Archives: Web 2.0

Facebook | Mass Interpersonal Persuasion, or just a waste of time?

By Adam | Published: May 20, 2008
Fast Company is running an interview with Stanford Prof BJ Fogg, author of a new book about the social networking service. There are some interesting ideas, and also some rather outlandish ones. Of the more explorable is this tidbit: “A lot of our exposure to services and products is now going to be socially mediated. [...]
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Photoshop Express public beta adds Flickr support – Yahoo! News

By Adam | Published: May 8, 2008
From the Sorta Kinda Notable But Really Pretty Much Expected Dept.: “…enhancements to Photoshop Express include the ability to access photos through the popular Flickr service. You can download photos from a Flickr account into Photoshop Express, edit and add effects to them, then send them back to Flickr. Adobe has also added a new [...]
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Ad firm Spot Runner lands $51 million in funding

By Adam | Published: May 7, 2008
B2B Long Tail company Spot Runner has secured a ‘war chest’ of $51M to fend off challenges from deep pocketed competitors Google and, yes, Microsoft. It’s an interesting model they’ve got. Democratize production and distribution of television advertising through pre-fab TV spots (Customized with a business’s photos, logo and Voiceover) and localized (inexpensive) TV buys. [...]
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Open Source Movie

By Adam | Published: May 7, 2008
I’ve been wondering for a while what an open source movie would look like, and now I have my answer. Wreck-A-Movie, fresh from its creators’ first mashed-up movie, Star Wreck. Slashdot has a great summary of the history of this site: “These are the same guys who brought us Star Wreck, the most successful feature-length [...]
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In Play… New Media Consolidates (again)

By Adam | Published: May 6, 2008
Yahoo is still in play, according to Jerry Yang, Cringely has suggested that Adobe is in the cross hairs of Apple’s sights, Adobe has opened up Flash (and Air) as a service-based platform, Amazon & Apple both have rich-media pervasive devices, Microsoft is ‘meshing’ up Live, and Google is holding Verizon’s feet to the fire. [...]
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The Awesome Prescience of McCluhan

By Adam | Published: May 2, 2008
It always astonishes me, although I’m long since the time that I should be astonished, at the prescience and genius of McLuhan. How was he able to peer into the future as he did? He himself observed that: “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” It seems [...]
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Flashing The Flash: Adobe Opens Up

By Adam | Published: May 1, 2008
h/t to Slashdot on this one: Adobe has opened up their proprietary Flash formats – SWF & FLV to the developer community, removed licensing restrictions for the playback, and is making the mobile player available for free. They are doing to Macromedia’s flagship product (since having acquired it 3 short years ago) what they were [...]
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee

By Adam | Published: April 30, 2008
h/t to Slashdot for this one, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the Web, claims that despite Web 2.0, the web is “still in its infancy,” which is welcome news to those of us that have futurist aspirations. One of the niftiest bits is the recollection by Berners-Lee colleague Robert Cailliau as to [...]
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Beautiful Text Like Ideas In A Stream

By Adam | Published: April 30, 2008
Data is indeed, just data, but when it’s organized semantically (even through a simple app like this), it becomes something really beautiful; thoughts in a river. Link
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