Flickr has long been a darling of photo lovers, primarily for its minimalist (and intuitive) user interface. However, with over a billion photos, Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of the Yahoo-owned photo service, it is becoming hard to find stuff, and it is time for a new user experience revolving around the concept of discovery.Click To Play[...]
Forget Steve Ballmer’s “you will dunk” quip, or whatever else happened inside the big hall at the Web 2.0 Summit, the story line for today was all-Facebook. The question about Facebook’s pending funding was repeated with mind-numbing regularity.It was hard to walk the lobby and not have some be fascinated, bemused or simply disgusted [...]
Written by Alistair Croll, Coradiant co-founder and VP ofproduct management who blogs about online user performance and networking. Earlier this year, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg decided to let people build applications atop his social networking site. Many of the attendees at this week’s Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco agree that it was [...]
There’s big action in search engines these days: see Web Worker Daily’s list of 11 alternative search engines, Read/Write Web’s top 100, and the GigaOM show’s opening question to Google’s (GOOG) Marissa Mayer about the spate of search engine competitors.But even as would-be Googles aim at the apparent heart of search — the keyword [...]
In the 2007 postseason, Alex Rodriguez batted .267, had an on-base percentage of .353 and hit a home run.In the third quarter of 2007, Google’s revenue jumped 57 percent for its first $3 billion quarter, pushed profit 46 percent higher to $3.38 a share and beat the Street’s estimates by 16 cents a share.See where [...]
It is only a matter of time before Facebook gets some insane amount of money from someone like Microsoft (MSFT), but one thing is clear: it isn’t going to sit in the bank for very long. The company is growing way too fast and it needs a lot of servers and data center space. [...]
Spammers keep getting creative and never stop from flooding out inboxes. After trying out attachments like docs, pdfs and what not, they are now spamming us with artistname.mp3 attachments.MessageLabs has just received word that in the last two days, there’s been a new form of online spam attack–MP3s are now the latest file format [...]
Skype and MySpace have teamed up to make their instant messaging clients interoperate. This is part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies, the financial terms of which were not disclosed, and marks the first time Skype is interoperating with any outside IM clients.Sometime in November, MySpace will release MySpaceIM with Skype. The partnership [...]
Yahoo’s (YHOO) third-quarter earnings report offers a mixed picture of the company’s condition: much better than feared, but still not good enough to launch it back into the vanguard of Internet giants.Revenue in the quarter ended Sept. 30 rose 3 percent from the second quarter and rose 14 percent from the same quarter a year [...]
Instead of facing the wrath of the New York Attorney General and testing the legal system, Facebook has decided to settle a probe over child safety on the social networking site. This is a smart move, and one that may clear the way for the rumored equity investment by one of the tech giants [...]
