But Why only 90 seconds?

While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.

I think it’s a great way to get more exposure if you’re a photographer. Bring along your video camera on your next shoot and film yourself taking photos. I can definitely see videos popping up with wannabe models posing, covert product endorsements, etc though.

Video on Flickr is going to be defined by our incredible, diverse, far-flung and fabulously talented members. Some answers that we’ve come up with:

1. A long photo
2. Personal
3. Simple – not overproduced or slick
4. Possibly the best answer so far: The Great Unknown

Personals?

Hmmmmmmm. I can already see this as not good for Flickr. Hopefully they can keep it under control.

Check out the Flickr blog and also their video faq

Maka-Maka encompasses Google’s grand plan to build a social layer across all of its applications to compete with Facebook.

Google already has so much data on you, depending on how many Google apps you already use. It just needs to bring everything together. Your contacts are in Gmail. Your feeds are in Google Reader. Your IM buddy list is in Gtalk. Your upcoming events are in Google Calendar. Your widgets are in iGoogle. And don’t forget about your search history. Overtime, Google will connect all of these together in different ways, along with data about you from other social services across the Web, and give developers access to the social layer tying all of these apps together underneath. The real killer app for Google is not to turn Orkut into a Facebook clone. It is to turn every Google app into a social application without you even noticing that you’ve joined yet another social network

Now I don’t know about you but I think there are enough social networks online. Just last week I deleted all my personal info from my myspace account because I don’t want to be a participant in that joke of a site. I’ve recently joined Facebook though just like everyone else because well, since my friends are there I have to be there too. Facebook is a lot more professional and actually works. I’ve only received a few errors on Facebook compared to the multiple errors I receive every time I am on myspace when doing simple things like responding to an email or comment.

There is only so much time in the day to devote to social networks so there has to be only one. Will facebook win out over all others? Only time will tell.

“A deal would demonstrate a remarkably swift return on News Corp’s investment in MySpace, which it acquired for $580 million in summer 2005.

Yesterday Yahoo! was worth $37 billion. A quarter stake in an enlarged company would be worth $12.3 billion.”

Webware is really a big part of what web 2.0 is about; usable applications run via your browser.  Whatever use, although it might not be social in nature.

Check out Webware’s Top 100 - Do you use a lot of these sites?  Think you might use some of them once you know about them?

There’s a lot of great, useful sites on that list.

Can’t you just wait for the day when bandwidth is no more?  When you can run Photoshop via Adobe’s website.

How old will we be then?

Don’t spend your time bookmarking sites seperately onto each of the social bookmarking sites you are a member of… Go here to Social Poster and post your links once to multiple bookmarking sites. 38 sites in fact. Social Poster gives you a convenient Bookmarklet to use in Firefox to easily get to.

Bookmarking your own sites definetely doesn’t hurt in SEO. I actually recommend bookmarking your own sites once in awhile. Hell you spend all your time bookmarking everyone elses sites so why not yours right?

If you do SEO yourself for your own sites you are more then likely already doing this. If not you should start. Seriously. Don’t go bookmarking every page of your site though. You want to be under the radar a little bit. There’s nothing wrong with it. Go on.. Bookmark. See what happens.

Social Poster.

Myspace seems like it’s totally out of control. They seem to be building more features onto a site that doesn’t work. It needs a total overhaul from the ground up. I’m sure that won’t happen any time soon. It would cut into their monthly ad revenue. I’ve said this for awhile, but Myspace’s time has come and gone.

As you know social networking is the biggest thing on the internet right now and I pay close attention to what is going on. Afterall there is big money to be made, seeing how myspace sold for 580 million and youtube sold for 1.6 billion.

If you watch or are interested in social networking sites like myspace, friendster, youtube, etc. you will love Pete Cashmore’s site Mashable.