Facebook crowns top apps. Rafe does, too [CNET News]
How do you choose the applications you activate on your Facebook profile? Are they applications recommended by friends, or have you searched them out from among the thousands available to Facebook users. If you're looking for the best of the bunch, you'll be glad to hear that Facebook has named five applications as the best on the social networking service. The apps range from a greeting card maker that sends cards from a group of friends to a game that involves trapping virtual mice. The CNET writer profiling the Facebook apps also rates his personal top five, including a neat application that allows users to rate wines and share your rankings with friends.
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money [New York Times]
YouTube has created a whole new profession. Yes, apparently you can make money making YouTube videos. The New York Times profiles one YouTuber who is making six figures with comedy bit videos that are posted three times each week. Michael Buckley's "What the Buck?" videos are well known to active YouTubers, but I doubt many people were aware that people like him are making a living by posting videos. The most interesting part of the story - Buckley started out on public access cable, and posted clips of his cable show on YouTube, launching his YouTube career. He's now over 100 million views on his online videos.
Techdirt writes a short post about cable companies deciding to enter the world of wireless Internet access. One cable operator, Cablevision, has opted to bundle free wi-fi to subscribers to its cable broadband service. The offering is one way the company is competing with Verizon's Internet service. Verizon apparently offered wi-fi service in the Cablevision footprint at some point, but later withdrew the wi-fi from their customers.
We are watching this development and are considering the future technical solutions to wireless connections. Nothing planned soon but we're thinking about it.
We are watching this development and are considering the future technical solutions to wireless connections. Nothing planned soon but we're thinking about it.
Microsoft Issues Number of Patches [Sherman's Security Blog]
It's a record. Microsoft regularly releases patches for its operating systems and applications on the second Tuesday of each month. The patches are designed to remove flaws in the released versions of the company's software. Yesterday Microsoft released 28 separate software patches, the most since it began the monthly releases in 2003. As Sherman notes, several of the patches resolve some very serious vulnerabilities. If you're running a version of Windows on your computer, make sure the "automatic update" feature is turned on for these patches. If you don't have automatic updates activated, you can manually install these patches, which are highly recommended to protect the information on your computer.
FaceBook has also allowed a new affiliate application to be installed that may take off like a rocket. The app is called ChatToText and can be found here: http://www.chattotext.com/amember/go.php?r=456&i=l0
I believe this will add value to FaceBook members account who are using their site for marketing and will be very attractive our younger generation
Posted by: Joe | Monday, February 02, 2009 at 11:13 AM