Advertising New Facebook Ad Network Takes a Page from Beacon Identified Hits is a new Facebook ad network that is taking a page from the Beacon play book. Beacon, you'll remember, is Facebook's endorsement-based ad service that uses user actions on outside sites to endorse products and services in the News Feed. Identified Hits is utilizing the same concept to push Facebook applications with a concept it… Social Josh Catone View comments
Contests Web 2.0 Expo Competition Winners We had a great response to last night's competition offering 2 full passes to the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo. Over 100 people left a comment telling us their favorite web app(s). Sadly, there can only be 2 winners. They were selected at random, using a cool web app called Random.org. The winners are: comment #79, James Levy, and #93, Jamie Stephens… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews Super Hot: Muxtape With Coverflow MP3 "mix tape" site Muxtape has been my preferred source of new music for the last few weeks now, in large part because the simple interface is such a joy to use. Now, internet and organic root-beer lover Colin Sproule has come up with a great way for Mac users to get an iTunes-style Coverflow preview of playlists on the site. The improvement… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews MyOpenID for Your Domain - The Easiest Way to Use Your URL as an OpenID OpenID, a technology that allows users to sign in to new supporting websites through a single trusted ID provider of their choice, is notoriously hard for non-developers to implement and in many cases use. One of the biggest challenges may have been eliminated, however, by the recent release of a new service called MyOpenID for Domains. The… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Battle of the AIR Apps: Twhirl vs. Alert Thingy Today, the battle between the two most popular AIR apps as of late has begun. Yesterday, the FriendFeed AIR app, Alert Thingy, having only just launched on April 13th, was already getting an update - this one to include Twitter support via a built-in "Tweet" button. Not to be outdone, Twhirl wasted no time in providing an update of… Sarah Perez View comments