Review of the Internet News of the Day
Gigya planning to offer new tools for advertising to reach the social sphere, WidgetBox is moving to a blog network aka ad network (sounds to be a trend, or fad, with LinkedIn and MTV having created the bandwagon), Joost comes up with a flash format webTV as other competitors did start with (browser is then becoming more and more an OS), Fon maybe the answer for the 3G downtime in the USA, views of Tom Foremski on Twitter future. Here are the links.
Gigya Widgetizing Social Space: Gigya recently unveiled Socialize — a technology designed to give publishers the ability to add social features to their Web sites and provide access to the all-important social graph APIs of top dogs Facebook and MySpace… Read more on Adotas.
Leading Widget Platform Widgetbox Launches Blog Network: Widgetbox, one of the web’s largest widget creation and distribution platforms, is launching a new blog network and becoming a destination site in the process… Read more on TechCrunch.
New Joost Launches Now. And Next Month Joost Will Be 100% Flash: The new browser-based Joost, which we wrote about two weeks ago (screen shots here), launches this morning. The new Joost still requires a plug-in to facilitate P2P transfers of files (reducing Joost’s bandwidth costs and making high-demand live performances feasible)… Read more on TechCrunch.
The 3G iPhone brings 3G networks down: Fon is the answer: If you work for a mobile carrier anywhere in the world read this article please. The news is that the introduction of the iPhone is bringing AT&T network´s down. In the article you can see that AT&T had to stop the launch of the Blackberry Bold, an amazing new product by Blackberry because iPhone users are bandwidth hogs… Read more on Martin Varsavsky’s blog.
The “Experiential Gap” . . . and the Growing Cosmos of Twitter Applications: A description of Twitter: being able to send a text message of no more than 140 characters to a self-selected group of subscribers via a cell phone or computer. That doesn’t seem very exciting. Yet there continues to be a lot of chatter about Twitter and it is well deserved because this simple application has become tremendously useful to growing numbers of people… Read more on Silicon Valley Watcher.
