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last.fm now playing full-length tracks for free

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:44:41 GMT

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A few days ago we sent out some cryptic invitations to a press conference in New York that Felix and Martin are presiding over. We’ve had fun in the office reading the rumors and speculation, but it’s time to spill the beans:

As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.

Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be.

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Top tools for twitters

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:32:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Awful headline I know (I wrote it) - the article's better (I didn't)

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The top 8 methods used to publish are as

When I first discovered Twitter, my reaction was much like many peoples'. I thought it sounded stupid. I, like hundreds of thousands of other people, have changed my mind.

The World's Most Popular Twitter Publishing Tools

In 717 instances of publishing to Twitter I saw 19 different tools used more than once and 5 more just once. follows:

Web 49.5% (355)
Twitterrific 14.1% (101)
IM 5.3% (38)
TXT 5% (37)
Snitter 4% (29)
Twitterfeed 3% (23)
Tweetr 1.4% (10)
Twit 1% (7)

Tags: twitter, communication, sharing, socialinternet, api, web2.0, clients

Facebook gender demographics

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:31:20 GMT

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Facebook Is Almost 2/3 Women (and other stats)

A blogger named Paul Francis went to the trouble of gathering Facebook user data via an advertiser tool that facilitates audience targeting. He pulled user numbers for the top countries, broken down by male/female.

The data set is here. The tool shows a total of 42,966,780 members in the top 31 countries. The U.S. leads with just over 18 million users, followed by the UK (6.8m), Canada (6.7m), Australia (1.9m) and Turkey (1.6m).

Forty percent of U.S. users are male, compared to 36% overall. Men looking for love may want to try Ireland or China, where 73% and 72% of users are female, respectively. Other than the U.S., which has the highest percentage of males, the lowest percentage of female users is in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UAE and Egypt.

Tags: facebook, gender, demographics, marketing, internet, community, socialinternet

Best social software practice

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:43:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.readwriteweb.com

Social software is a whole new world in many ways and people everywhere are trying to figure out how to design effective and compelling applications. I offer for your consideration today three recent attempts to articulate social software design best practices. Let's discuss.

The recommendations include things like "focus on the 30-second experience; before distracting the user with expert features or sending invites, slow down and give the user a simpler taste of what your application is about." That's good advice that a lot of startups could benefit from considering.

Factory Joe, also know as Chris Messina of San Francisco consultancy CitizenAgency when he takes his cape off, maintains an excellent collection of screenshots on Flickr. He saves all kinds of good examples of contemporary interface design in the social software world. I point people to it all the time, now you can too.

Tags: visualization, socialinternet, opensocial, google, web2.0, ui, design

"Virtual" crime?

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:39:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Screen grabbers - crime hits the digital frontier

As a teenager is arrested for stealing pixels, Victor Keegan reports on the rise of the 3-D 'virtual worlds' that could transform the way we work, play, shop and communicate

A 17-year-old Dutch teenager was arrested this week on suspicion of stealing furniture worth £2,800 from a hotel room. Four other teenagers were also questioned about the offence. It is believed they moved the stolen furniture into their own hotel rooms. Such a minor incident might not have merited a paragraph in the local paper had it not been for one extraordinary detail of the case: the crime happened not in real life but in a "virtual" hotel in the three-dimensional world Habbo Hotel, a children's game that only exists on the internet.

Tags: secondlife, virtual, crime, internet, socialinternet, avatars

Linkedin for work, facebook for play?

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:36:01 GMT

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In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch. Based on recent experience, I don’t think so.

I recently had reason to use LinkedIn seriously, using my existing network to tap into a market that I had not previously been exposed to. I had not used LinkedIn since the early days, so this was my first serious update.

Limitations on LinkedIn's Value

1. LinkedIn mirrors real world relationships but does not change them. I assume the same is true on Facebook. More to the point, attempts to use LinkedIn to change real world relationships can be counterproductive.

2. I can bye-pass the network and avoid paying the fees. The 'professional' users of LinkedIn tend to be sales people or recruiters. In other words people who network for a living. They are the ones who will pay the fees that LinkedIn charges:

Tags: linkedin, facebook, networking, api, socialinternet, web2.0, internet

Independent opinions? upload your movies here

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:21:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.freedocumentaries.org

At freedocumentaries.org we believe strongly that in order to have a true democracy, there has to be a free flow of easily available information. Unfortunately, many important perspectives, opinions and facts do not make it to our televisions or cinemas (you can watch movies in our media category if you want to know why).

For this reason we decided to start freedocumentaries.org, a site where anyone with an internet connection can watch a movie and educate themselves or simply explore another perspective whenever they want.

Providing films free not only allows anyone to watch a film but it also allows curious people who think they may disagree with a filmmaker to watch a film without worrying that they are giving money to someone who's views they don't agree with.

Freedocumentaires.org also allows independent filmmakers to have their message heard to markets which they wouldn't reach easily.

Tags: opinion, video, sharing, socialinternet, web2.0, internet

drag and drop mashup builder

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:26:17 GMT

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Eat at Joe's

Tags: mashup, ajax, web2.0, socialinternet, api, javascript, internet

google - introducing OpenSocial

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:30:58 GMT

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social.fm - music with coverflow

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:14:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Stumbled across this - great looking site

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Clip Source: www.social.fm

Mission

Welcome to Social·fm.
Social·fm reflects our vision and the contributions of Social.fm DJs that create all of the music playlists on Social·fm. As the leading social music service for web and mobile users, Social·fm is powered by DJs and music listeners just like you.

Social·fm enables social music discovery and recommendations through connections with your friends, family and Social·fm users with similar musical preferences. We are building innovative products and services that leverage Internet broadcasting, social networks and user-contributed content to enable you to enjoy your favorite media anytime, anywhere.

Tags: social.fm, socialinternet, web2.0, sharing, community, last.fm, music, beta

Software development - past and future

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:23:22 GMT

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In 1975, Frederick Brooks wrote a classic book on software project management called The Mythical Man-Month. In the book, he famously argued that adding more people to a development project will hinder rather than help to get things done faster. The reason is that having more people working on the project introduces a non-linear overhead in communication.

With the advent of modern programming languages (Java, PHP, Python and Ruby), rich libraries, and unprecedented infrastructure services like those from Amazon, we are arriving at yet another evolutionary step. Digg, del.icio.us, YouTube and other poster children of the new web era were developed by just a handful of programmers. To build software today all you need is a few good men (or women!). In this post we trace how we got here and where we are heading next.

Tags: php, ruby, rails, agile programming, python, programming, web2.0, socialinternet, history

Digg going more social?

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:05:44 GMT

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Sometime today, according to BusinessWeek, social news site Digg will launch a slew of new social networking features that will put the site in closer competition with services like Facebook and MySpace. The features will enable easier communication between diggers and allow them to form groups based around their interests. "This is really the first time that we have enabled communications between users," Digg founder Kevin Rose told BusinessWeek.

The reason for the change, implies BusinessWeek's Catherine Holahan, is that as Digg has expanded its reach beyond technology focused stories, its early users have complained that the main page has become diluted with news in topics that don't matter to them. The new features will allow users to form connections and share stories with people that have common interests.

Tags: digg, socialinternet, facebook, myspace, microsoft, sharing, web2.0, internet

15 last.fm hacks

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:15:31 GMT

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Clip Source: lifehacker.com

One of the best ways to discover new music online is with Last.fm, a music recommendation community. Last.fm serves you up new tunes based on a marriage of your unique preferences and the rest of the huge Last.fm community. Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a few quick and dirty ways you can oomph it up a little. Keep reading for fifteen ways to tweak your Last.fm listening experience.

Tags: last.fm, music, hacks, internet, socialinternet, social networking, sharing, mp3

What yahoo did next?

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:17:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

There is a bit of buzz around the presentation Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago. It recommends a broad strategy for Yahoo to get their act together in the social networking space, and recommends a near term acquisition of one of the big players.

I’ve embedded the full presentation below. It is a broad overview of social networking in general, which Peck breaks down into four distinct types:

Tags: yahoo, facebook, acquisition, socialinternet, internet, web2.0, sharing

Facebook advertisers cancel

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:12:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

Making headlines in the United Kingdom Friday was news that a number of Facebook advertisers had canceled their advertising due to their ads being displayed next to dubious content.

First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, the AA, Halifax and the Prudential withdrew their Facebook advertising after it was disclosed that their advertisements were being displayed on the Facebook page of the British National Party (BNP). The ads of the six companies were being rotated through the BNP’s page along with other advertising. Facebook is said to be unable to block campaigns on specific Facebook pages.

Tags: facebook, advertising, web2.0, socialinternet, internet, technology, fascism