Boxee unveils the Beta, and even the Boxee Box!
Boxee one of my favourite startups at the moment is unveiling its beta version of the popular Boxee software. I’ve been using Boxee for almost an year on my Macbook Pro and needless to say the experience is simply wonderful. With today’s Beta launch Boxee aims to enter newer territories with the launch of a dedicated Boxee Box in partnership with D-Link. What’s more important is a totally revamped and redesigned interface for Boxee, that makes using it even more fun. The UI changes aren’t the only changes though, Boxee... Read The Rest →
[Updated]The First iPhone Only Social Network On Its Way
Looks like we will be very soon seeing the first iPhone only Social Network or a Consumer Network as the guys behind TheBlackApp put it. Nothing much is really known about this startup at the moment, but it could potentially be a hit considering how much Internet crazy iPhone users are. They plan to launch it on June 5th which means that it will possibly launch before the iPhone firmware version 2 appears at the WWDC this June. The only question will this be a native app that runs on... Read The Rest →
Facebook Apps On Any Website : Smart Move
Facebook on Friday announced yet another feature that could allow the developers of Facebook Apps, to take it possibly to the next level by allowing them to create Apps that would work on any website out there. All this is done through a simple JavaScript library that the developers could use to display their apps on other website’s. Here is what Wei Zhu of Facebook had to say about the new library Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook... Read The Rest →
One Click Rules 'em All! Get Rid of all Facebook App Requests
One of the biggest problems with Facebook is that, app requests keep pouring in at a rate more than you can keep up with. I had over 250 invites to various Facebook apps ranging all the way from boring to fun. I just wanted to ignore all of the app requests in a simple elegant solution, but there was no “Ignore All” button to be found anywhere on the app requests page. Clicking the Ignore button on every single app request would have taken eternity for me to clear them... Read The Rest →
Over Half a Million Private Myspace Photo's leaked
This is not good news for the News Corp owned Myspace. Myspace has had its fair share of privacy concerns in the past. But this major leak puts all of them to shame. Over half a million photos have been leaked on BitTorrent, and the catch here is that all the leaked photos have been taken from private albums on Myspace. Well that just made just about everyone’s private moments for the whole world wide web to see. This sets a very bad precedent for Myspace, and I am sure... Read The Rest →
Digg to Launch Image Section Later Today
Digg is about to Launch the most awaited Images Section later tonight. In conjunction with the release of the image section, Kevin Rose also decided to bump a few things up, and add a couple of new features here and there. Most of the new stuff is related to Images Anyways : Well here is what Kevin Rose has to say about the new stuff on Digg : New Universal TaxonomyNow you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg! Categories will be consistent across the board,... Read The Rest →
Rumor : Digg May be for Sale
The Rumor mills are at work again, and this time its Digg which is making the rounds. Apparently Digg is up for sale for about $300 Million. Valleywag editor Owen Thomas tells that "a source rules out all the big Internet players–not Microsoft, not Google, not Yahoo, not News Corp.," and that CBS had "taken itself out of the running." Thomas also went on to speculate who the actual buyers might be, and he thinks it might be the New York Times, or the Washington Post. The reason you are... Read The Rest →
9rules lets Ali2 out of the Bag
Popular blog network 9rules has done a major redesign to its site. Ali2 as the new design is called is the sixth major redesign of the popular Blog Network. The new design looks refreshing and has the ability to sucker in new visitors into its network of Amazing Blogs. Exploring the new design, I took some quick screenshots, and here they are for you to look at : The New Homepage. One of the best homepages of a blog network I have ever seen all my life as a blogger.... Read The Rest →
I Have 5ive Streamy Invites to Giveaway
If you haven’t already heard of Streamy the Digg Killer then Streamy is the web aggregator that brings you the best news from all the over web. I have been playing around with Streamy for the past few days and I must say that it exceeded my expectations from it by leaps and bounds. From now on Streamy becomes my chief source of Blogosphere news after Techmeme and Digg. So if you want to try out Streamy then drop in a comment in the following posts : Firefox Campus Edition... Read The Rest →
Orkut gets a Fresh Look
Finally Google has turned its eyes back onto social networking. To start off with Orkut will be getting a fresh design that sticks with traditional Google policy to keep things simple. While Google is still working on the design slowly a few users are starting to see the new design.. Old Design :
