The News Review:
- Let’s Make Website Mashups Like Netflickr Figg and BoingPress
- Centralized social commenting: coComment
- Lee supervisors mulling new annexation map
- Meet Mobimii move over MXit?
- Google & Feedburner – The Good & Bad
Let’s Make Website Mashups Like Netflickr Figg and BoingPress
Wired News – May 23, 2007
There are sexy swimsuit pictures but those are always on “very long wait” status. Figg This community blog throws Fark and Digg together insuring that that 95 percent of all frat boys with laptops will be members. The two cantankerous communities can’t possibly co-exist in peace however so this will be a fight to the death! Which will win: yet another post about someone getting caught having sex with a farm animal or yet another post confirming that the Wii is indeed out-selling the PS3? BoingPress This blogging service provides all the functionality of WordPress and in addition automatically links to stories about DRM the Creative Commons Disneyland and anything John Hodgman does ever. cx This site helps you out with directions but for some reason only displays routes involving tunnels. WikiHarmony Welcome to the only online dating service with profiles that anyone can edit! Personal descriptions are notoriously biased and clearly only random people using pseudonyms can provide the objectivity necessary to decide whether Becky Jarker is a “fun feisty redhead” or a “henna-addicted lush.
Centralized social commenting: coComment
CNET News – May 23, 2007
Each user also gets their own comment and subscriber count which acts as a general way to tell how much clout or interaction coComment users have. Publishers can also integrate coComment into their blog or service. CoComment offers plug-ins for. nce installed user comments can be hosted and by coComment and made visible and searchable on coComment’s network.
Lee supervisors mulling new annexation map
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – May 23, 2007
For more on the stories behind the Lee County stories go to Leesha Faulkner's blog Clearing the Cobwebs at djournal. com or leeshafaulkner@wordpress.
Meet Mobimii move over MXit?
Moneyweb – May 23, 2007
With MXit you can send a message to anyone for less than 1c Mobimii takes it a step further and says we?ll give you a chat service photograph sharing service video clip sharing service a music downloading service ? all for free. Vincent Maher a media strategist at the Mail and Guardian nline says he?s not very excited about another one of these services which are effectively a conglomerate of services like blogging photo sharing and social networking services. ?The danger in these is always that there are stand alone services that do the job better like Flickr for photos Wordpress for blogging and Facebook for social networking? he said. Maher said that he doesn?t think that Mobimii will pose much of a challenge to MXit locally because its user base is already established and the price model is different. Mobimii launched on Wednesday. It is going through a test phase and currently has about 500 live users. More users have registered but haven?t gone live yet CE Simon Leps said.
Google & Feedburner – The Good & Bad
WebProNews – May 23, 2007
Many of Google’s competitors offer some kind of feed statistics (Wordpress. com) and Google need to do the same. Integrate FeedBurner with Google Analytics – I have seen this discussed slightly but no one hit the nail on the head. Currently it is impossible to track conversions into an RSS subscriber in the same way you can with email subscriptions. This is a major stumbling block for the future of RSS within marketing.