Analysis Web 2.0 Tools Favor Democrats As a follow-up from our post earlier today - The Web 2.0 Election: Does the Internet Matter in Election Politics? - The Washington Post is reporting that online "friends" could be pivotal in the 2008 U.S. race. But it seems Democrats have a big advantage on popular social networks: "Democrats outnumber Republicans 5-to-1 on Facebook and 3-to-1 on… Richard MacManus View comments
Video Services Mefeedia Promises 2nd Generation of Online Video Mefeedia was one of the online video aggregators that Josh Catone reviewed in his Guide to Video Aggregation Sites. It claims to aggregates video blogs and web shows from over 15,000 websites. Their index include 3.3 million episodes from over 24,000 different video feeds. In a recent blog post, the Mefeedia team noted that YouTube (and Flash Video… Richard MacManus View comments
Video Services Top 10 Video Search Engines This week is Online Video Week at R/WW, so our network blog AltSearchEngines went out and found the leading video search engines on the Web. Following is the list that ASE editor Charles Knight came up with - he used Google Video as the benchmark. What is your favorite video search engine? Let us know in the comments. Also over on AltSearchEngines… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media NY Times Launches No-Frills Start Page, My Times Today the NY Times announced its new personalized start page, called My Times. As with existing 'start pages', such as My Yahoo, Pageflakes and Netvibes, My Times is a way to create a personal homepage for news and mini web apps - by adding RSS feeds and other widgets. With My Times you can also receive recommendations from NY Times journalists… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis The Web 2.0 Election: Does the Internet Matter in Election Politics? "Lecterns are so 2004," says AP writer Jake Coyle. Not wanting to feel left out after all the CNN-YouTube debate hoopla, MySpace and MTV announced a series of one-on-one "candidate forums" yesterday. Rather than a debate format, candidates will appear individually to answer questions submitted by MySpace users specifically for them. "We very… Josh Catone View comments