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Myspace can’t seem to catch a break these days. Juan Carlos Perez of IDG News wrote yesterday that the once-dominant social networking site laid off 500 employees, which amounts to about 47 percent of its staff. The cuts were part of a larger restructuring by the company. In addition to the layoffs, Perez said, Myspace now has new advertising and content deals in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany.
We took a little break writing up the summaries of what we’ve covered in TechStuff. In this blog post, we talk about the latest three episodes of our podcast. We covered a wide range of topics, starting with Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computer science. We also covered the mysterious Bloom Box, a device some people mistakenly believe provides free energy. We round it out with a discussion on Myspace — where it came from and what its future might hold.
Blekko – a new search engine that hopes to take on Google
by Marshall Brain | November 1, 2010
People try creating new search engines every day. But it’s been awhile since one of them got much attention. Blekko is a new search engine that seems to be exciting people. Here’s a quick review filmed this summer during the early beta: A more in-depth piece. According to the CEO, 21 people are working on [...]
A few weeks ago, I received an invite to participate in the private beta testing period for Unvarnished. It’s an online service similar on a superficial level to services like Yelp. Only instead of using Unvarnished to rate restaurants and businesses, you use it to rate other people. It’s meant to allow you to comment on someone’s professional performance and behavior. When word of the service first hit the Web in the spring, many bloggers had a negative reaction. I’ll include myself in that camp. Molly Wood’s thorough blog post is an example of a critical take on the service.
The makers of Disaspora, an open-source social network many anticipate will be a rival to Facebook, released the site’s source code yesterday, according to a post on the organization’s blog. If you’ve been following the saga behind Diaspora, you already know that the coders behind the project claim to put the users’ interests at heart, especially with regard to the privacy complaints frequently leveled at Facebook.
Yesterday afternoon, Twitter held a press conference unveiling updates to the site’s design. Soon you’ll be able to view content like pictures and videos within your Twitter home page. It’s aligning Twitter with other social networking sites, most notably Facebook. The less time you spend clicking on links and checking out photos, the more time you spend on Twitter.
There’s a lot going on in tech news this week. Among the items I thought interesting include a report in The Wall Street Journal that Google is looking to introduce its own social networking service. I mean besides Orkut, Friend Connect and Buzz. Amir Efrati wrote that Google has been talking to social gaming giants Playfish, Playdom and Zynga about the possibility of bringing their wares to a Google-based service.
Life According to Cosmo: Taking Cosmo Dares
by Cristen Conger | July 13, 2010
The quintessential Cosmo reader is supposed to be fun and fearless, which is perhaps why the magazine insists on daring women to complete a laundry list of somewhat ridiculous tasks. July’s “20 Dares to Take On After Dark” involve everything from quite sane suggestion to share more about yourself to a romantic partner (which Cosmo [...]
Web 2.0 is a term that emerged after the dot-com crash of 2000. There’s some debate, however, about what it actually means. Jonathan and Chris define Web 2.0 and discuss the evolution of the World Wide Web in this episode.
Do you remember Beacon? Beacon was a Facebook project from a few years ago that linked Facebook users’ profiles to third-party Web sites. In theory, Facebook users would have their activities on other sites publish on their profiles. Buying a book on Amazon? Watch as your purchase pops up in your status updates on your Facebook profile. Beacon is gone now but Facebook’s latest strategy may go even further.
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