Comments on Aza Raskin’s(Yes, it’s Jeff Raskin’s son) UI for Songza.com (my favorite music search engine).
(Via 37Signals.)
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Fresh UI ideas from Songza and Algorithm Ink - (37signals)
FOWA wants email to die….quickly!
Email is definitely headed towards extinction. This past weekend at the Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami they predicted just that.
Kevin Marks, a Google engineer and Technorati veteran, said in a talk about the company’s OpenSocial project and Social Graph APIs that e-mail is a “strange legacy idea.”
“E-mail has died away for a group [...]
The vain side of Web 2.0
True geeks don’t read Variety or Maxim. They turn to Vallewag for their gossip: “interesting” piece on Marrissa Mayer. I actually saw her up close in Google’s Seattle Scalability Conference last year. She spoke about scaling Google for every user(very interesting):
P.S: I am the guy in the red shirt….shit you not….lol
Valleywag: Yang’s secret plan for a Yahoo comeback
Owen Thomas on Yang’s original turn around plan:
Four months ago, Yang reassigned hundreds of employees to skunkworks projects, with the goal to make Yahoo “relevant.” They’re now working on a few specific projects:
-Rethinking the Yahoo homepage
-Consolidating Yahoo’s plethora of social networks
-Opening up Yahoo to third parties with a consistent platform similar to Facebook’s
-Revamping Yahoo’s network [...]
CrunchBase V2.0 with Widgets
Crunch base has released their completely overhauled website in Ruby on Rails. The site is smoother, faster and editable by anyone! Crunchbase takes it’s first steps towards being a wiki. Last week, mp3.com’s Michael Robertson released a similar product (Dealpedia.com).
The coolest new feature is the Techcrunch-like widgets that can be added to any website(see [...]
Farecast goes International
If you’ve ever been pissed by overpaying any flight because you didn’t buy at the right time, then Farecast is for you. They have a patent pending fare prediction system to help you decide when to buy. It’s really useful and has saved me a lot of money so far. Until now, it has only [...]
Microsoft-Yahoo to fuel Web 2.0 startups?
Apart from the recent layoff announcements made by Jerry Yang, a Microsoft purchase would probably lead to even more layoffs. This will be very devastating for a lot of people, but could actually refuel the Web 2.0 movement(noticed I didn’t say bubble?).
As a result of the layoffs a lot of engineers will probably polish [...]
Comments on the Microsoft-Yahoo bid
With hours left to find out Yahoo’s decision on the matter, pundits are giving their last minute comments on the bid. Two interesting ones come from John Gruber and Erick Schonfeld. John talks mostly on how not to screw Yahoo up after the merger amd compares them with Apple circa 1996, while Erick focuses on [...]
Web 2.0 Certifyr (funny)
There are things in life you can’t make up….for everything else, there is always the internetz. I found a funny Web 2.0 certifier. I found this via Redzee with a search for: web 2.0.
(ice crums is 88% compliant…..nice!!!)
Web 2.0 Social Media Revolt: An open letter to Digg from Top Digg Users
Valleywag is reporting on an open letter from top Digg users and their intents to defect to another social media site, due to Digg’s secrecy and lack of transparency.
The letter points out 5 mayor Digg faults:
1) Lack of communication and disregard for the Digg community
2) Unexplained and unacknowledged banning of top users
3) Lack of transparency [...]