Attention Sports Fans: FanFeedr Is Here
FanFeedr is a news aggregation site with a twist: it only collects news about your favorite sports teams and players (previous coverage). It was started by Ty Ahmad-Taylor formerly at Viacom, you may remember his name from when we featured him in Peeps of the Web. So what does FanFeedr actually do and how can [...]
Read MoreNew FriendFeed is Fast and Furious
FriendFeed recently released a new design that has caused a lot of excitement among those who use it. Many are extremely upset by the new layout and unable to keep up with the new real-time style. Others are ecstatic about this new method for realtime chat. We previously talked about the upcoming features and how [...]
Read MoreTech Week In Review: Facebook API and Desktop, Swine Flu, 4Chan, and Phishing
Facebook API First, Facebook starts copying features from FriendFeed and Twitter. Now, they have decided that copying features isn’t enough to stay on top and they’ve decided to open up their API to developers. The only problem there is that Facebook isn’t as open as we first thought. It’s so-called open API is just a [...]
Read MoreSports Aggregator FireExit Alpha Invites
There are so many places to find the latest information about your favorite sports teams, but no really easy way to do it. Currently you have to either browse or search your favorite news sources for the latest chatter about you favorite teams or visit a start-up we just featured called ARHE that focuses on [...]
Read MoreThe Not-So Inclusive Web and Network Failure
Dawn Douglass recently asked the question, “How can the Web truly be “open” when only young white male geeks get to decide what the Web is?” I spend a lot of time thinking about technology. Every morning the first thing I do is pop open my feedreader to read all the incoming articles from all [...]
Read MoreWeb 2.0 Services Shutting Out Developing Countries
In a particularly infuriating Article, the New York Times sites developing countries as the toughest places to monetize web traffic for web services like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. The article makes the argument that countries in South America, parts of Asia and Africa, are particularly hard to monetize due to the increased costs of serving [...]
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