The jerky, slow loading videos you’re trying to smoothly stream on YouTube aren’t only failing on your computer. Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen an increasing number of YouTube Lag complaints showing up in tweets, live commentary on ustream and other blogs. My YouTube experience has been less than stellar for the past several [...]
After giving up on Hulu during one of my recent posts, I headed over to YouTube trying to find a good playlist to occupy my speakers over the next few hours. Once the first video began to play I noticed a new button near the top of the player. I moused over the button and [...]

Facebook has acquired FriendFeed and the marriage is the biggest topic today across most social networks. FriendFeed has been a great resource for many people, including me. FriendFeed’s simple interface allows members to combine all of their social feeds (facebook posts, tweets, blog posts, youtube activity, blip.fm, etc) into one single page. The beauty of [...]
Twitter‘s updated front page now shows a giant search box with trending topics under it. Is this where Twitter’s cannonball into the pool last summer really starts to create a giant splash? Now people can search results taken from content updated within the past 1 second. Twitter’s search algorithm is expected to evolve quickly (currently [...]

AT&T BlueRoom featured great live performances this weekend from the scene of the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester Tennessee. One unplanned gift AT&T gave Bonnaroo fans watching from home was multiple live video streams being webcast from the iPhones in the crowd. As I write this article, a fan is broadcasting tonight’s live Phish [...]

It doesn’t matter if you’re at the track, in your car, or at home, you can keep up with all the happenings at the Indy 500 this weekend by following the Official Indianapolis Motor Speedway Twitter Feed, drivers, and other fans at the track from your PC or mobile device. I expect Sunday will bring [...]

Does the list of Trending Keywords hurt or devalue Twitter overall? Twitter has became the ultimate game of “telephone”. Now that Twitter has redesigned user’s homepages with a toplist of trending topics spammers and misfits are immediately able to figure out how to target massive amounts of users. The resulting pyroclastic flow of posts on [...]


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