Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

A couple of days ago we posted screen shots of a new search interface being bucket tested by Google that lets users vote up or down on search results. The resulting interface was very Digg-like, and included a total vote count, etc. Today Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango, noticed ...

It appears that the beta for Facebook’s new user profiles is now live. To check out what your re-designed profile will look like, just head to www.new.facebook.com once logged into your account. This will not change your actual profile yet, but it will show you what your profile ...

Updated (Bottom) Like Last.fm? Want it on your iPhone or iPod touch? Pay a visit to Apple’s App Store [iTunes], and you can. Announced today, Last.fm’s mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch is now officially available for download, either through the iTunes storefront for directly from the mobile ...

Finding a good dotcom domain name (without paying a hefty premium for it) has long been a virtually impossible task, leading otherwise obscure countries to offer up domain extensions like .tv, .to, and .fm. to allow you to register something with some semblance of being a real word. However, the ...

If there’s one thing Habbo’s online virtual world is good at, it’s making a big deal out of anything and everything. And the recent milestone of 100 million users is nothing to snuff at. In true Habbo style, they threw a big bash and gave the 100 millionth ...

I’m sure you’ve seen the Austin Powers-inspired Capital One commercials, promoting the new customization options for credit cards, allowing you add your own images. In the hopes of embracing the web’s media-sharing prowess, Capital One is allowing users to tap into their own Flickr accounts in order to ...

This is one great week for widgets. RockYou received a hefty round of funding yesterday, and today marks a dually beneficial partnership between white label network solutions company KickApps and widget maker and distributor Clearspring. This partnership is especially focused on the marketing potential of joining forces, as ...

We first mentioned a plan devised by television network operators BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to form a joint Web-based video venture, code-named “Kangaroo,” last November. Which seemed rather intriguing at the time. It would allow users to do all manner of things with different pieces of content, including rent ...

Microsoft Live Messenger is the latest to integrate Facebook chat, meaning you can talk it up with your Facebook friends directly from Microsoft’s instant messaging client, according to a report on allfacebook. This integration is a passive and useful way in which Microsoft can utilize the social network into ...

Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe’s traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe Reader) into an online environment, allowing users to create, manage, and share Adobe documents ...

Gone are the days where you did something so pedestrian as pick up a phone to order a pizza. Now you can employ Pizza Hut’s new application to do the talking for you! Adobe Air is a wonderful platform, no doubt about it. Still, who thought it would hit the mainstream ...

Facebook is quickly moving into the aggregation game, today adding a half dozen different services you can now import into your Mini-Feed. The new services include YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader. To try it out, I added my Google Reader Shared Items. Much like FriendFeed, it ...

As go celebrities, so go other things in our culture. Today Seesmic got a HUGE win. The Indiana Jones crew, including famous movie stars and movie directors, are on Seesmic. Here, check them out: http://seesmic.com/cate http://seesmic.com/georgelucas http://seesmic.com/harrison http://seesmic.com/steven http://seesmic.com/karen There’s a lot more on this over on TechMeme this morning. These celebrities are so well known ...

I’m justifying this gadget profile with the fact that it’s got a bit of social networking built in (or at least that’s how it was pitched to me by the tipster who sent me Conner Flynn’s writeup at Slippery Brick). This Lego mindstorm looking device is a new terrestrial radio ...

Apple iTunes is to offer movie downloads on the same day as their DVD releases after securing deals with major US film studios

The number of Britons joining a social network is expected to treble from 9.6m to 27m by 2012, according to Datamonitor

The BBC iPlayer is now available via a TV platform after a partnership deal between Virgin Media and the BBC

Update: Microsoft’s Bill Sisk offers a denial on the company’s IIS blog that the MS SQL Server technology has no association with the SQL vulnerability described in the security concern mentioned below. SQL, one of the most widely utilized server technologies today, is going through a particularly rough time. According to ...

We’ve got the scoop on an announcement set to be delivered by Steve Pearman this morning at the Web 2.0 Keynote address. Pearman is the Senior Vice President of Product Strategy for MySpace, and he’ll be unveiling the MySpace Application Gallery. The gallery will showcase all the applications available to MySpace ...

Many branded applications on Facebook have failed to take off as members of the social network choose not to install them.