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    Archive for July, 2010

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    Reddit Asks For Help From Users And Shows Off Some Web Traffic

    Friday, July 16th, 2010

    Reddit, the social news website, asked it’s readers for some financial help. The website was having staffing troubles and overall difficulties keeping the site running. Oddly enough, the website is owned by Conde Nast.

    The ask prompted over 6,000 users of the site to donate, which was a tremendous success. Users who donated where offered a gold status badge, which will bestow extra benefits. This may pave the way for a new business model for the social news site.

    Reddit administration also defended the website against statistics offered by Compete, Quantcast, & Nielsen, which shows the site only generating less than 1 million monthly unique visits. This is just not true, claim the Reddit staffers who provided a screen view of their Google Analytics account from June 14 through July 14th of 2010, which shows the site generating 36 million Visits and 8 million unique visitors.

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    Privacy concerns for social networking sites spearheaded by Facebook issues

    Friday, July 16th, 2010

    The concerns over Facebook’s privacy settings are still growing. The company, by no means, imbues trust regarding the way it handles personal information. Central to the argument over Facebook’s privacy issues are an overly complicated settings configuration to govern that information.

    Fifteen privacy groups have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission over deceptive trade practices. Senator Schumer, among others, have felt that the FTC should provide basic guidelines to large social media websites in how private information should be handled, disseminated and/or safeguarded.

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    New web design for the BBC creates a fury of comments

    Thursday, July 15th, 2010

    The BBC undergoes a re-design to it’s website, which produces a huge outpouring of comments on the BBC editor’s blog. Already the editor’s blog contains 2000 comments–many of which are negative.

    The new web design makes the interface cleaner and adds a lot of white space. The side navigation has been removed and the number of article related imagery has been reduced. Overall, the new design tries to reduce the overall clutter and clarify and remove distractions from the top stories. Access to social links has been improved as well.

    Many of the negative responses found in the Editor’s Blog are aesthetic or taste focused–although many say that the new design is too simple or difficult to use in general. For example, one reader writes “new look makes the BBC Website seem like a less sophisticated version of the CNN website.”

    One observation that we noted was the obvious disconnect between the homepage of BBC.co.uk and the new news landing page BBC.co.uk/news. The navigation systems are different–to the point where even the reds that are used in the theme are inconsistent.

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    Website Video Is Hot Hot Hot When It’s Instant

    Monday, July 12th, 2010

    Netflix year-over-year website traffic has surged 46% in June as a result of it’s Watch Instantly functionality. Netflix customers seem to crave the Watch Instantly streaming service and the ability to watch video on a broad range of devices from iPads to desktops.

    The fact that this new service has proven to be a hot commodity may change Netflix previous core business model built on DVD rentals.

    Besides iPads, there is a growing market of new web-ready devices that can sport internet video such as Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or HDTVs.

    Hulu and Hulu Plus does seem to be a strong competitor of Netflix, but such competition may simply drive more innovation into the web streaming video arena.

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    Youtube’s Ploy To Steal Your TV

    Sunday, July 11th, 2010

    Youtube is working hard to invade your living room and become your TV. Quality video content is the next big thing with Youtube, which has recently launched a new product called Youtube Leanback. Leanback is essentially a made-for-TV version of YouTube. More recently, the company mentioned that they will be trying to sponsor higher quality video (television-ish) content.

    As part of this shift in strategy, the company has launched a campaign dubbed YouTube Partner Grants, which represents an investment of five million dollars to find YouTube partners from small production companies and studios that need the money to build Youtube’s upcoming product offering.

    Youtube will also be supporting a new high-end digital video format called 4K, which has a horizontal resolution of about 4000 pixels. For example, some of the best video cameras available, like the RED One system, shoot in 4K. The funding that Youtube will provide these smaller video agencies will help them purchase better equipment and hire new team members to produce the content for this new video platform.

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    Odd UK Collaboration To Fix Deficit And Build Public Involvement Online

    Saturday, July 10th, 2010

    The British Government has an odd team member for helping to fix the problems with public spending and building a strategic initiative to tackle the growing deficit: Facebook is that team member.

    The social media company will be joining hands with the British Government to build what they have described as the “largest public engagement project” that government has ever produced. The campaign will be dubbed the “Spending Challenge” and calls for public support and actions to accomplish major cuts in public spending and greater collaboration between the public and government to reduce deficits.

    The campaign launched from a Facebook page “Democracy UK Facebook Page” and is calling upon the public to give ideas for spending cuts and to generally encourage a creative dialogue between citizens and state. In the first phase of the campaign, more than 60,000 ideas were submitted in just two weeks. Citizens are not just encouraged to give new ideas but also give feedback on the ideas of other citizens.

    Facebook will be a primarily serving as a platform for the debate and solicitation of public involvement on the project.

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    New HTML5 Mobile Site By Youtube

    Thursday, July 8th, 2010

    Youtube launched a new and upgraded mobile video website written in HTML5: m.youtube.com. The new website sports a couple of new features, including high-quality video playback in the browser using HTML5. Of course, you will need a browser that supports the HTML 5 <video> tag. Devices from Apple: iPhones, iPads and Android phones all support the HTML5 mark-up.

    When you would click on a video in the old mobile Youtube site, you would be taken outside of the site and redirected to the player app for Youtube in order to watch the video. Now, you can watch videos right from the browser without the redirect.

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    Ta Da! Firefox 4 Beta 1

    Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

    Firefox 4 Beta 1 was released by Mozilla. The official release will take place at the end of the year, 2010.

    Firefox 4 will be a major upgrade from earlier versions, which will include:

    • A redesign of the user interface
    • Tabs are at the top — except in the Mac version
    • enhanced HTML5 support
    • hardware-accelerated HD video
    • WebSockets – low-complexity, low-latency, bi-directional communication system
    • enhanced add-on support via Jetpack: a tool that allows developers to create add-ons without needing to have in-depth programming knowledge. Extensions are built using CSS, Javascript and HTML. When they are installed the user will not need to restart the browser.
    • Jetpack Gallery – browse the inventions of others in the community – if you build it, they will browse it. :)

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    Lady Gaga Vs. Obama: The Battle For Facebook Popularity Ends.

    Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

    Lady Gaga just beat President Obama for popularity on the social networking website Facebook. She is the first living music artist that has acquired 10 million fans or “Likes.” She has beat US President Barack Obama by around 700,000.

    In a very similar feat, Lady Gaga is also the first currently producing music artist to gain one billion YouTube views (source: Visible Measures). Currently, the artist has 4.5 million Twitter followers.

    The late Michael Jackson has beat Lady Gaga in both Facebook fans (likes) and Youtube views.

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    Mainland Users Will No Longer Be Auto Directed To Hong Kong Search

    Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

    Users in mainland China have been redirected to the uncensored Hong Kong version of Google following the closing of the uncensored mainland site. In an attempt to avoid full-on confrontation with Beijing, Google will cease to redirect those users to google.com.hk. Should they continue with the redirection, China’s Government will not renew their business license.

    It should also be noted that China’s President Hu Jintao will be making a trip to the North America for the G20 meeting in Toronto. Google may be avoiding confrontation prior to this visit. The business license renewal application is due on Wednesday.

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