Archive for the social network review category

MyBlogLog hits the big time

Mybloglog.com has been getting quite a bit of attention, particularly by several noted A-list bloggers (AVC, Read/Write, Techcrunch, Calacanis, and others). With all of that exposure, membership has rising (most likely fairly dramatically).
The concept is terrific. I’ve had it up on my blog since the beginning. I like to see who is looking at my [...]

GooTube to Net Zero?

So if YouTube has 65,000 videos uploaded everyday and now is starting to get serious heat to pull copyrighted ones down (see 30,000 Japanese Videos taken down), does that mean that quite soon they will actually have a net increase of zero new videos added everyday?
How many non-copyrighted videos do they actually have in their [...]

MySpace Spam

Is it just me or do you get a lot of spam email from MySpace. Ok, maybe not directly from MySpace, but it comes from “@groups.myspace.com”. Here is a nice one I got this morning:

Hi ,You have been invited to join the $300 – $1,100 Daily Income Club group on MySpace.

I’ve also been asked to [...]

Video Wars – MySpace is bigger than You(r)Tube

(MyCrappy)Videos
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah… My site is bigger than your site. My videos are bigger than your videos.
Is Rupert kidding himself here? I can understand that MySpace’s video play is big, and getting bigger everyday. As Pete Cashmore points out, it isn’t that hard to build a product and shove it down [...]

This week’s sign…

Kudos to SI… but this week’s sign that the apocalyse is surely upon us:

Run. Run away now while you still can.
Seriously, a social network site for fans of sneakers? We already have stupid sites like this. They have names like Dogster, Catster, Hamster, Horseter…
The last thing I need to do is look at pictures of [...]

Maybe MySpace CEO has it bassackwards

We all know what the CEO said. Too bad he is dead wrong. Mashable’s claim that all these widget-darlings are “feeding the MySpace beast” may actually be the other way around. Maybe it is Myspace that is feeding off everyone else, like a giant leech.
Look at MySpace. It is so web 1.0 in its construct [...]

Second Life? No Thanks.

I caught the bug about a month ago and happily joined Second Life to see what all the talk was about. They threw me into some vacuous place to “learn”. Immediately I wanted to find out where everyone else was… not an easy task for a newbie. Eventually, I learned to fly a little and [...]

When a web 2.0 Nation Revolts – Trouble in Diggnation

It happened earlier this week with Facebook and now its going on big time over at Digg.
Users of both popular web 2.0 social networks are up-in-arms over what they perceive as anti-nation practices.
Growing pains of a young nation? Heck, you could argue that the combined strength of each site (and its user base) is greater [...]

Why Web 2.0 is like a TV Pilot

Kiko bought by Tucows (Kikows?)
Rojo scooped up by Typepad (which you can read about here, here, here, here, and here)… ok so I didnt link the “here’s” but would you click on them anyway?
Really what’s the point in me investing any of my time with these 2.0 sites? The current trend is that they’ll be [...]

Facebook FacestheMusic

Geesh, you make one or two changes to try to help out a community and you get slammed. Arrington likes what they’ve done:
News Feed and Mini Feed, allow users to get a quick view of what their friends are up to, including relationship changes, groups joined, pictures uploaded, etc., in a streaming [...]