News Slide - One Million Flash Widgets Added Per Day Slide, which makes slideshow and media widgets for the major social network platforms (including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged and Blogger) has announced that more than a million new flash widgets are being added to its network every day. Its most popular widgets are Slideshows, SkinFlix, Guestbooks and FunPix. Slide is very popular… Richard MacManus View comments
Admin Read/WriteTalk: The People Behind The Web I never thought one of our network sites would be outed by Valleywag, but that's what happened today :-) I'm pleased to introduce Read/WriteTalk, a brand new podcasting show produced by Sean Ammirati and myself. Sean is the driving force behind the show, so all credit goes to him for setting it up and doing the podcasts. By day, Sean is the VP of… Richard MacManus View comments
web iFoods.tv - Not 'Facebook for Foodies' But a Good Web Cooking Show This week chef to the stars Niall Harbison launched a social network aimed a food lovers, iFoods.tv. They're touting it as "Facebook for foodies." The site is basically a social network formed around a library of video tutorials produced in the familiar TV instructional style. In the press release we were sent, iFoods.tv made a big deal of all the… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Will Podcasting Survive? Part of the Digestion Phase that we wrote about last week includes evaluating technology trends. We can identify a clear set of winners: online video and online photo are taking off, vertical search engines are making great progress, MySpace and Facebook are the new social phenomenon, etc. But not everything we have recently invented is… Alex Iskold View comments
web NewsGator Launches Facebook App: NewsFriends One of the leading RSS Aggregation startups, NewsGator Technologies, jumped on the Facebook bandwagon today with NewsFriends (add to Facebook here) - a social news application where Facebook users can aggregate and share news, videos and podcasts. Once you have it installed, you can select friends and it automatically delivers you the news they… Richard MacManus View comments