http://adamloving.com Seattle Facebook, OpenSocial, and Web Development Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:34:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's the Beginning of the End for the TV Biz, Says Analyst | Epicenter from Wired.com "We believe the feature film and TV content businesses are on the verge of structural changes that appear to impact the core revenue and profits of entertainment business models," wrote DiClemente. Viva la revolution! I just ... http://adamloving.com/2008/07/08/its-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-tv-biz-says-analyst/ David over at Design Commission captured a sampling of 92 home pages. It is a great compendium of the state of the art in Web Design. Start Screens - a set on Flickr http://adamloving.com/2008/07/04/web-design-reference/ Image via Wikipedia This is interesting, and certainly makes sense in the Facebook application world. Seems to me the Long Tail is already a prevalent concept in music though. Prof. Elberse describes research showing that even in our cultural consumption we tend to be intensely social folks. We like experiencing the same ... http://adamloving.com/2008/07/03/the-long-tail-is-a-lonely-place/ Image via Wikipedia Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web - ReadWriteWeb This is an interesting service making some really big claims architecturally. In fact the more I think about it, the more impossible it seems. Gnip is trying to become the hub for some really interactive sites. Piping all that ... http://adamloving.com/2008/07/02/gnip-aggregates-social-services/ Image via Wikipedia I was googling around for a free (and legally re-usable) text dictionary, and found this one with a very creative software license. WordWeb free version may be used indefinitely only by people who take at most two commercial flights (not more than one return flight) in any 12 month ... http://adamloving.com/2008/07/01/green-software-license/ Image by Getty Images via Daylife Steve Rubel had an interesting post today about where you should invest your time "contributing" online. Micro Persuasion: Should You Rent or Buy Social Real Estate? "Renting" in this context means participating in discussion on someone else's site (like Twitter). "Owning" means collecting content on your own ... http://adamloving.com/2008/07/01/blog-twit-or-regurgitate/ Slowly but surely desktop software is being replaced with Web based software. The Web browser is becoming a platform for more complex software applications - the window through which you do everything - not just browse the Web. Web based software (coupled with "cloudcomputing") has many advantages such as, automatic ... http://adamloving.com/2008/06/30/javascript-and-google-gears/ I wrote previously about prosper.com defaults causing me to stop loaning money. Also, it looks like earnings have decreased for lenders by around 3-4% on Prosper's built in portfolios. This is likely due to the federal reserve lowering rates on loans around the country, but could also be due to ... http://adamloving.com/2008/06/29/prosper-default/ Playlist: 1. The Ting Tings - Great DJ 2. Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris - Dance_Wiv_Me 3. Weezer vs Nelly - Beverly Grillz (Edit) 4. The Wombats - Lost In The Post 5. Dead Kids - Fear and Fluoride 6. Art of Noise vs Rakim - Close to the soul (kozmikdj mashup) 7. Digital Rust - ... http://adamloving.com/2008/06/28/porta-party-mix/ Joshua Allen wrote an interesting post about how SearchMonkey is disruptive because it could enable semantic Web technologies. Basically the "Semantic Web" is a more meaningful internet (see my post from 2004 for a better description). Internet inhabitants have been trying unsuccessfully to bootstrap the semantic Web for a while. ... http://adamloving.com/2008/06/27/yahoo-searchmonkey-apps/