I honestly like Mike Arrington, but some of his more recent behaviour, in particular the dummy spit in relation to Nick Carr, sort of means this honour is probably well deserved:
For from Those Bastards here.
Tags: Mike Arrington
Archives For Web 2.0
If you haven’t heard of Cyworld yet, it’s basically the South Korean version of MySpace, sort of Blogging come social networking (although I’d note it’s more blog like that MySpace)…and it’s come to America with the launch of an English speaking version. GigaOM has more, but off the top of my head from the days I use to do these figures for the Blog Herald, it has something like 30 million users in South Korea, and even more in other Asian countries as well….basically it’s bloody huge, question is: will it take off in the English speaking world? At this stage I’d put money on it, this is huge already and it’s going to get bigger. Look out MySpace 🙂
Check out the new US version here.
Tags: Cyworld
Chris Pirillo has launched Rent My Chest 2.0 (via Blogebrity), but I ask this serious question: if Chris was female wouldn’t this be porn, after all, Chris has a reasonable set of man boobs here, indeed, I think his…features..are bigger than Keira Knightley’s (sorry Chris, but I’ve got to say, shame about the fez…), although I’d note from earlier shots that his breasts are actually a little smaller now…sure, I’m no China painting myself, but man boobs for me were very much 2002 (and about 35kg ago), not 2006. But I suppose on a more serious note, Chris continues to push the boundaries, and that’s why we all love him, right…man boobs aside 🙂
Tags: Chris Pirillo
Interesting post over at Techcrunch today on the latest IM usage figures…but both the figures from comScore, and Techcrunch themselves totally ignore one IM client: and that’s Skype.
I use Skype as my IM client, and so do most people I know. Why, well first and foremost everyone actually uses their real names: makes it a whole lot easier communicating with people when you know who you’re instant messaging with, + obviously the voice functionality, although most other clients provide this as well, it’s just that Skype is the default for voice for most people these days, at least in the blogging/ Web 2.0 field.
But I digress: you can’t have a serious analysis of IM without include Skype in those figures. I’d be interested to here if other people use Skype in the same way as I do…I may be a little biased because it’s become a defacto communications system for b5media, but still…it’s a great IM app.
Tags: Skype
Dave Sifry posts at the Technorati blog about the latest release from Technorati here. Initial thoughts: a darn lot better that their last major update. The Hello Kitty bubbles have been confined to history and the new look is slick, although still maybe a little cluttered. Speed wise: wow…and I mean wow + they’ve finally integrated Technorati rankings back into lower ranking blogs, so I finally know where my sites actually rank now in the blogosphere. However, time will tell if this is actually updated regularly…I can only hope so. You also now get a much better personalised experience as well..indeed, I never got around to claiming my personal blog in Technorati until today, so Technorati Profile is what I have to include in this post 🙂
One last thought: anyone smell Digg in the redesign? Sure, there’s no direct on page social bookmarking, but notice the new emphasis on Digg style post categories….it’s a little like Digg but voting is via incoming links. Will be interesting to see what the traffic will be like from those featured in these categories.
Tags: Technorati, technoratifeedback
Saw this story at Techcrunch the other day and it did register as being odd, but the Blogebrity team sum it up well…and BTW, it’s great to see Blogebrity back and firing regularly as well…now if only they’d expand their coverage a little bit wider…
TechCrunch Bubblewatch: STD Edition
Time to play everyone’s favorite Web 2.0 game — “the new tech bubble might be slowing/deflating if….”
…the official chronicler of the ‘revolution’ is getting excited about STD dating sites.
Twttr, according to TechCrunch, is a Web 2.0 app from Odeo that allows you to mass spam people via mobile phone txt, and then let everyone read what you sendspam people’s mobiles with online, sort of like group sex in front of a web cam for txt, but although I don’t suggest for one minute that Evan Williams, the genious behind Blogger is a Wankr, peolpe who think that somehow a new name will still be Web 2.0 cool in 2006 just because of they finish it with an “R” sound like Wankr’s to me 🙂
It should also be noted: the meaning of Twit: To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults…perhaps I’ve become a Twttr after all 🙂
Interesting discussion over at The Blog Herald on the demise of MT compared to WordPress, and although the entire world knows I’m a massive WordPress fan these days, I’ve got to say that both Scrivs and Matt are wrong on this, wrong in that MT isn’t going to go away, indeed I’d argue that MT is actually going to grow…but you aren’t going to see the world plastered by “Powered by MT” anymore.
Why? because MT is actually growing before our very eyes…its called TypePad people! My understanding is that MT is still the base code for TypePad, although obviously there is a pile of tweaks on top of it. It will also grow on Vox. Now unlike TypePad, where I can remember Anil announcing that MT was the basis for TypePad, I don’t know what the source code is for Vox, but I would be very surprised if it didn’t share some MT code in the backend somewhere.
I think it’s pretty much a given that WordPress has won the DIY blogging “wars”, I also think that it’s pretty much a given that when SixApart announced MT 3.0 they abandoned their then user base as well…now I won’t rehash the history here again, but it’s a decision of the past, not the present. The old MT user base moved onto WordPress, and SixApart took a strategy that was more focused on financial return, and despite the morality of the decision at that time, there is little doubt that at least for the SixApart team it turned out to be a highly successful one…and of course the core of this strategy: the MT code.
As to whether MT continues as a stand alone product in the long term? who cares. It’s not where the big money is for SixApart. I’d think given the level of usage at a corporate level that it will for the foreseeable future, but in terms of personal DIY blogging…it’s already pretty much history anyway.
So heres to a successful future for MovableType: the code behind many of the big corporate blogs and a growing MySpace competitor in Vox (which BTW I think is great!).
Tags: SixApart, MovableType, Vox, WordPress
Good news on the IM front…now if only they could get together with eBay and link in to Skype as well, from the BBC:
Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly.
The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users.
The trial software allows people to swap text messages but will eventually let people talk to each other too.
Amazing figures from Hitwise, MySpace is now the mosted visited website in the United States….and people said it was a bad investment, got to give Rupert Murdoch credit, he certainly knows a good investment when he sees it.
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