Web 2.0

The Little Mermaid Gets Review-Bombed So Hard That IMDb Changes Rating System

Several review sites have been hit with ‘unusual voting activity’ driven by bots and an online smear campaign for casting Halle Bailey as Ariel.

Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Is Trying to Save the Internet. It Wants Your Feedback, Please.

Jack Dorsey's Twitter clone wants to cure social media's ills with custom algorithms. On a recent livestream, a developer took real-time suggestions for them.

‘Kidfluencers’ Could Get Compensation Protection Under New Bill

Influencers have exploited children for revenue-driven content for years, but a new Illinois bill aims to ensure minors are being properly compensated.

Social Media Scatters Your Brain, and Then You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need

Using social media puts you in a state of cognitive overload, frazzled and excited, so you'll hit the "buy" without thinking, writes a professor of advertising.

How ’90s Music Tech Paved the Way for Millions of Bedroom Musicians

Massive recording studios were suddenly able to fit on a desktop, record store's inventory could fit in the palm of your hand, and nothing was the same.

ChatGPT Feature Coming to Twitter Rival, Koo

The India-based multilingual microblogging app, Koo, is introducing a ChatGPT feature as it surges in popularity.

Nigeria Terrorist Attack Video Restored on Instagram

A previously removed video of an attack at a church has been restored after the user appealed to Meta's Oversight Board.

China Cracks Down on Liking Posts About Zero Covid Protests

New censorship rules state for the first time that users can be held liable for liking videos deemed harmful or illegal by government officials.

A Broken Twitter Means Broken Disaster Response

The loss of this crucial rapid-response platform could be crippling as climate change makes disasters worse.

New Instagram ‘Notes’ Feature Is a Snapchat/Twitter Frankenstein

The feature that's being tested allows you to post a disappearing message to your followers.

Here’s What People Thought of YouTube When It First Launched in the Mid-2000s

When YouTube first launched 15 years ago, a lot of people weren’t sure what to make of it. Anyone can upload a video to this service? Why do I want to hear what some obnoxious teenager has to say from their bedroom? YouTube was much more than that, of course. Most of the site’s most…

New WinMo and iPhone Apps Give You Palm Pre-Like Social Media Synergy

Yahoo’s new mobile apps, HTC’s updated WinMo UI and a new multi-platform app called 3deep are all chasing after the Palm Pre’s Synergy functionality, gathering all social media/location aware services in one place. The Synergy functionality on the Palm Pre really kick-started this craze back in January, when Palm debuted the system of integrating all…

4 Science Fiction Books Every Social Media Junkie Must Read

Social-media nerds need to read more science fiction, says Web 2.0 blog Anthrogoggles. To get you started, they have a list of four must-read novels, including Vernor Vinge‘s Rainbow’s End, and two William Gibson books.

Why Does Bruce Sterling Hate Web 2.0?

Last week in Wellington, New Zealand, all the brightest future-minded web nerds gathered together at an event called Webstock. And scifi author Bruce Sterling keynoted with a lecture about how Web 2.0 is doomed. I was there at Sterling’s speech, which was both intriguing and confrontational. Here are some highlights. Web 2.0 Is a Ponzi…

How to Follow Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Online

Wondering how you’re going to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama while at work tomorrow? Thanks to Lifehacker, we now have the rundown on ways to watch/stay updated without ever leaving our desks. https://lifehacker.com/lifehackers-guide-to-catching-the-inauguration-from-any-5132476 First, the vital info. The actual swearing in ceremony takes place at 11:30am EST and will go for about two hours..…

Twitter Delivers Death to America 140 Characters at a Time

Twitter is great for grassroots organizing—Obama and McCain both use it to relay biddings to acolytes. That same, real-time insta-blast networking quality would also make it a jee-golly-awesome organizing tool for terrorists, according to a draft Army intelligence report. Mix Twitter with cellphones and you’ve got highly mobile, connected terrorists using the same tools you…

Web 2.0h Yeaahh!!

Some will realize that this t-shirt is really just a clever response to a Steve Rubel piece from last year. But recognizing the allusion is hardly a prerequisite to enjoying Mr. Kool-Aid himself kicking the internet in the groin. Besides, it’s the only thing we’ve got to tide us over until the Web 3.Oh Yeaahh!!…

Sungevity Web App Makes Installing Solar Panels a Piece of Cake

Eco start-up company Sungevity is launching a new web application on Earth Day (three days away, people!) that will take the guess work out of solar panel installations. Enter your address on Sungevity’s website and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof’s dimensions, select the right sized solar arrays and calculate…

Web 2.0 T-Shirt Tells Us All Whether You Facebook Your Life Away

The latest addition to the chic geek’s wardrobe has got to be this web 2.0 T-shirt. The classy bit of kit contains a list of 79 social networking sites, all followed by tick boxes. Tick the ones you belong to and wear. By adorning your scrawny chest with this garment outdoors, you are able to…

The name of News Corp and NBC Universal’s new YouTube killer is…Hulu? [Krunker]