Daniel's Web Trends Blog May 2008 Archive

Microsoft has launched a preview of their latest attempt at social bookmarking called, simply enough, Social Bookmarks. This will be Microsoft's third attempt at social bookmarking in the last ... Read More

It's basically like fighting fire with fire. Google's OpenSocial initiative has the backing of some pretty big players in MySpace and Yahoo, but Facebook's development platform has taken off ... Read More

Skyfire Labs has raised $13 million in Series B funding, which brings its total funding to $17.8 million. Skyfire's mobile web browser has drawn a lot of attention ... Read More

An article in the Financial Times about Web 2.0's failure to produce revenue caught my eye this morning. It wasn't so much the article itself as it was ... Read More

Trendi is a new social shopping website that combines the art of shopping with the activity of social networking. Wanting to leverage the good of going to the ... Read More

Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb has posted an excellent article on how to create social awareness and work towards social change by using different forms of social media. Sarah notes ... Read More

Opera, the developer of the popular Opera Mini browser for mobile users, released its State of the Mobile Web report for the first quarter of 2008 this week. The ... Read More

A couple of months ago, I was asked in our forums who used social networking sites more -- men or women. After some furious Google searching, I found that ... Read More

How would you like to be Jerry Yang right now? For months, he struggled against the Microsoft buyout bid, reaching out for deals with News Corp, Time-Warner and even ... Read More

As a way to help everyone get through the weekend, I went through the grueling task of playing games all afternoon. Don't get me wrong -- I wasn't having ... Read More

Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has banned Google's Friend Connect from connecting to its data through its API. Facebook issued a statement that they are concerned with privacy ... Read More

Comcast doesn't have the best reputation among Internet users. The second-largest Internet provider in the United States, Comcast has become a premium example of the importance of net ... Read More

Disney is exploring uncharted territory with DGamer, a social network that targets kids through the Nintendo DS portable game system. Traditionally, the Nintendo DS hooked people together through ... Read More

It's no big secret that Mobile 2.0 is ready to take off. Smartphones and PDAs are becoming powerful little computers that we carry in our pocket, and with browsers ... Read More

Wordless Wednesday

Other than World of Warcraft, the biggest thing in gaming right now is casual gaming. Stimulated by the popularity of social networks, casual gaming has skyrocketed in the past ... Read More

I was recently able to take a tour of the Skyfire mobile web browser, and I must admit, I was very impressed. In fact, even though it is still ... Read More

In April, I wrote about how the increasingly niche social networks that keep popping up are putting more pressure on technologies such as OpenSocial that will make keeping up with ... Read More

Have you ever wanted to build your own web mashup? Last week, I reported on some really cool mashups including some of the best mashups on the web. ... Read More

The current trend in social networking is diversification and personalization, which is a fancy way of saying that new social networks are popping up that target a niche audience. ... Read More

After abruptly ending negotiations with Yahoo over the weekend, Microsoft has conducted some informal talks with Facebook about acquiring the social network according to an article in the Wall Street ... Read More

In the past few months, we have seen a wave of artists start their own social networks from 50 Cent to Ludacris to Radiohead. With companies like Ning ... Read More

The winners of the 2008 Webby Awards have been announced. Among the big winners were Apple, who got awards for best design and best use of video, PostSecret, winning ... Read More

It was a busy weekend for the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. On Thurday, Microsoft hinted that it would raise its offer price when Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's Chief Executive, told employees, "I ... Read More

Web mashups are all the rage these days with web mashups ranging from HousingMaps, a mashup that will help you shop for a new house, to MusicMesh, a mashup for ... Read More

"We ought to announce something in relatively short order," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told to his employees in a Thursday company assembly. According to the Wallstreet Journal, ... Read More

Tired of wearing your eyes out staring at tiny text every time you type a search string into Google? Wish you could see the contents of a page before ... Read More