Offering the biggest storage capacities of all the file hosts on the Internet will surely drive some traffic to a file hoster’s website. Oosah did just that with the announcement that they would offer 1 Terabyte – that is 1024 Gigabytes – to everyone signing up for their file hosting service. And while they surely [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Is It Reasonable To Offer 1 Terabyte of Storage As A File Hoster?
MySpace Music Venture
Joshua writes about cool interesting stuff over on his own blog Extendably. Feel free to check it out, I’m sure you’ll like it. No matter what your opinion is on MySpace, the announcement of the MySpace Music store and service is big news. Perhaps the real question should be, “Why so long?” After all [...]
Desktop Apps with Bubble
I must admit I had never heard of Bubbles before I tried out the time tracking service SlimTimer. Bubbles is a Windows only ‘browser’ which lets you create site specific ‘bubbles’ to run in the system tray. It can actually be very useful for any web service you find yourself constantly using, but as of [...]
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Facebook Chat and Google Talk on the Desktop
Gabtastic provides desktop access to the chat applications Facebook Chat and Google Talk. Those two are normally only accessible on the Facebook and Google Mail websites which require a permanently opened browser during chat. The chats put some strain on the browser and system and using them in a desktop client instead could be a [...]
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Lockr: Access Control for Web 2.0
The major difficulty that I see with all those Web 2.0 social networking websites is that there is no central administration but one for each website you are a member of. Want to share some private photos with friends at Flickr ? Then tell them they need access to Flickr so that you can add [...]
Finally! Block Applications on Facebook
I have a lot of friends gushing over popular social networking site Facebook but I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s so great about it. It’s cluttered, difficult to navigate and then, there are the applications. I’ve written about my dislike of Facebook apps earlier and was looking for a way to [...]
Which Facebook Apps do You Think are Worthless?
I’m not a big social networking person. There are way too many social networks out there like Myspace, Orkut, Hi5, etc. All my friends are on one network or the other and I keep getting a bunch of invites. So, I’ve sort of joined the bandwagon and have profiles in some places. Of course, being [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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I’m on Facebook. Now What ?
I did receive another email today asking me about my Facebook user name. I never put much thought into joining Facebook or any other hyped web community. The main reason for this was the question about the why. Why should I join Facebook ? Only to show everyone a list of my friends, to show them what I’m doing ? Will it turn out to be a “I’ve got more friends than you thing” in the end ?
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Send Music to your Facebook Friends
I must be one of the few users on earth that does not have a Facebook account yet and who does not have any plans of creating one in the near future. Still, Facebook is extremely popular and this following Facebook application could be useful – I think it definitely will find lots of users who like it – for some users of Facebook.