Web 2.0

The Twitter Spam Problem

by Jeff Weisbein May 19, 2009

Twitter has a spam problem on their hands and it’s not going away. Spam which is generally a pretty clear cut subject especially when it comes to email spam, people spamming web forums, blog comment spam, etc. does not appear as clear cut when it comes to Twitter. What gives? Lately, the majority of my [...]

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Twitter’s True Mainstream Success Test

by Jeff Weisbein May 6, 2009

The last few months have brought about an enormous growth in Twitter’s traffic in fact sky rocketing them to approximately 19 million visitors in the month of March. The enormous growth was propelled by Ashton Kutcher’s race to one million followers lead closely by the adoption of the service by Oprah. If this growth trend [...]

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Will UStream Be Changing To .COM?

by Jeff Weisbein May 2, 2009

Gizmodo recently reported that the islands of Tuvalu are sinking. The .tv top level domain belongs to Tuvalu and according to ICANN if a country is no longer in existence the top level domain must be phased out. That being said (if the islands really do sink – they are nine of them) what will [...]

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YouTube Introduces Realtime Functionality

by Jeff Weisbein April 25, 2009

After logging into my YouTube account I noticed a small bar on the bottom of my browser window reading “Realtime Sharing”. YouTube has been playing around with realtime statistics for a while (provided you enabled them), however, now they seem to be completely implementing the realtime system into place. It is still opt-in, so you [...]

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YouTube To Offer Video Download Option

by Jeff Weisbein January 16, 2009

The current YouTube community is accustomed to having to use 3rd party tools to download YouTube’s video content, however, that may soon change (see image below) this would be the first time an official download option has appeared on YouTube. The new option gives users a full-quality H.264 file which is the very same copy [...]

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Bubble Comment Review

by Jeff Weisbein January 6, 2009

Bubble Comment is a neat service which allows you to leave a video comment (if it doesn’t play right away, click replay) on almost any website. Occasionally, I find myself wanting to leave a comment on a website, blog post, or forum thread but text just doesn’t get my point across correctly. This is where [...]

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Google Unveils New Features

by Jeff Weisbein November 20, 2008

Google has just unveiled some brand new search functionality into their search results. These new features include promotion of results, removal of results, and even commenting on search results (which are made public). There isn’t much information currently available on these new features as they appear to be brand new – I just noticed them [...]

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VideoSurf.com Review

by Jeff Weisbein November 8, 2008

As most of you know I was working on a project this past year, however, I dropped the project over the summer due to lack of funding. Last Thursday, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal which talked about a new site called VideoSurf.com – it’s a video search engine. This was my [...]

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