Monster Jobs Aim Higher. Reach Farther. Dream Bigger. Blog Juice Here's a toolbar bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you're on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll: You can try it here, or drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and run it anywhere else on the Web. (On IE, right-click, add to favorites, say Yes to continue past scary warning, and choose Links. You may then need to fiddle around with your Tools drop-down in order to get Links to show in your chrome.) Watching full-length TV programs on Internet increasingly popular Watching a favorite show you missed on television on the Internet is increasingly popular, two recent studies show. Horowitz Associates found that 16 percent of high-speed Internet users watched at least one full-length TV program online during a week, double the number from last year. Horowitz just released its report: Broadband Content and Services 2007.
What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions.
YouTube offers a “sneak peak” into future plans; where’s the high-quality streaming? The news wasn’t exactly “stop the presses!” worthy, but it’s interesting nonetheless to see what the folks at YouTube are thinking about and how they are looking to improve their product. At an invitation only event last night in New York dubbed “Videocracy,” YouTube gave advertising moguls a sneak peak at some upcoming initiatives.
250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web HOT STORY: Google Reader Stats are Bullshit (With Proof) We're all living on the web, and we all seem to be starting our own websites, so it's time we all learned the languages that make it run. We've gathered over 250 resources to help you get going. This list is aggregated from previous Mashable posts. AJAX Activity Indicators - A large collection of animated GIFs for you to use as your AJAX application's progress indicator. ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Onlin Forget useless desktop apps and piles of paperwork: there are now thousands of small and medium-sized businesses managing all their affairs with online applications. After an exhaustive hunt this week, we've rounded up more than 230 of the leading online applications for super-productive companies. Accounting, Billing, Invoicing, Estimating & Contracts
Internet TV Update: Hulu, Joost, TiVo - ReadWriteWeb This week there's been a fair bit of action in the Internet TV sector, with announcements from Hulu, Joost and TiVo. Our network blog last100 has been covering the action. This week Hulu - the online video project from Newscorp and NBC/Universal, with participation by Sony, MGM and others (our previous coverage) - launched to the general public in the United States. It's been in private beta nearly five months, wrote Dan Langendorf at last100.
StoryTools 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (return) Note! 50+ Ways is no longer being updated here but over at the new site for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story-- It has more organizational features and includes ways for you to add content to the site once you join the new wiki. Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people.
Strengthening America Overseas Education is the surest path to the middle class. President Obama is making historic investments in education to create opportunity for all Americans. To help students better afford a college education, President Obama ended billions in subsidies wasted on banks and used the savings to double investments in Pell Grants. He established a college tax credit for students and their families worth up to $10,000 over four years of college. He set a goal to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, and cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10 years, a goal that will save the typical student thousands of dollars a year, and proposed bringing together community colleges and businesses to train 2 million Americans for good jobs that actually exist now and are waiting to be filled.
Blinkx launches BBTV, a desktop Internet TV application with links to the Web Blinkx, the company behind the video search engine of the same name, has finally launched its Internet TV service, BBTV (Broadband TV). Like others in this increasingly crowded space, which includes Joost, Babelgum, VeohTV and HP-backed Next.TV, BBTV is a desktop application that utilizes Peer-to-Peer networking to deliver a full screen experience readily suited to long form content such as television episodes or feature films. Unfortunately, the same criticisms also apply: BBTV requires a download, as apposed to being accessed through a Web browser (see ‘Don’t turn off the life support just yet: Joost coming to the browser‘), and, whilst it’s early days, the service has a very limited content lineup.
3 Kinds of Value in Networks** In my work with social network development, we're talking about 3 kinds of value people bring to their networks, that shape the quality of their connections. Asset value is talent and resources. Positional value is awareness of the network and access to assets. Generative value is the ability and willingness to engage strengths in trust building and collaboration. Early Look: Microsoft Office Live Workspace We have picked up a trio of screenshots of the forthcoming Office Live Workspace, which we’re just thrilled beyond rational thought to share with you. Pre-registration for the beta version of Office Live Workspace opened at the beginning of October. Microsoft has positioned the service as an online complement to the desktop version of Microsoft Office. The Office productivity suite represents a significant portion of Microsoft’s annual revenue. No one in Redmond would willingly take a sharp blade to the throat of that golden cash cow, but Microsoft had to do something to appeal to people who have embraced software as a service concepts for, among other things, productivity applications.
Don’t turn off the life support just yet: Joost coming to the browser Joost (last100 review) is planning to let viewers access its Internet TV service via a Web browser, rather than requiring them to download and install the current Mac/Windows application, according to Portfolio.com. This year, viewers will be able to watch Joost videos in a browser window. Go to Joost’s website, click on shows like Seth Green’s edgy Robot Chicken or an old Rocky and Bullwinkle episode and you can watch them as easily as you’d watch a video on YouTube. Previously, all Joost users had to download and install special software. Though no specific launch date is mentioned (Joost has a track record of stating that it has plans to be everything to everybody), the move to a browser based offering is interesting on a number of fronts. Firstly, it would signal an admission that Joost’s strategy to build its service around the kind of “lean back” experience that it hoped to deliver via a full screen desktop application has largely failed.