Category: Web X.0
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Sumo Paint
There are all manner of online editors out there for photo and a/v now. Sumo Paint is one of the first that I’ve seen that are more painterly in nature.
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Facebook is now allowing custom sharing
It looks like people will be able to choose how their status updates and other published items are shared. This only makes sense after the Vanity URL move because right now, it makes no sense to send people to your URL unless it is to make it easier to find you. With this, you now…
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Generations of Media, SNS and the Ballot
I last wrote about Shirky in November, and now I’ve spotted a TED talk from his as well. This one was just recorded and addresses how social networks are changing patterns of communication and how those networks are perhaps able to if not shake the Earth, at least report it. Right now, Twitter is going…
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So Mr Jones, you broke Facebook did you?
Well, it was only a matter of time before all the wisenhiemers who chose geeky/hacky usernames would break something. Now it looks like whoever went for something.aspx has broken something within Facebook. Yesterday, one of the guys in the office (a Mr. T Jones) chose 500.aspx as his URL. Everything worked, until last night when…
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Vain in the name
These last few days have seen quite the interest in who scored which vanity URL from Facebook. Outside some commercially styled or really geek usernames (default.aspx an example – et al) most are true to their owner’s identity. That is assuming that you had a name that was uncommon enough across the millions of Facebook…