Rev2.org » Podcast http://www.rev2.org Profiling Web 2.0 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Facebook’s Easter Egg Contra and Apps That Show Profit http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/08/facebooks-easter-egg-contra-and-apps-that-show-profit/ http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/08/facebooks-easter-egg-contra-and-apps-that-show-profit/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 21:12:59 +0000 Craig Agranoff http://www.rev2.org/?p=2488 There’s two things to remember about Easter eggs: they’re usually hidden in plain sight and they often have goodies in them.

By now, most already know that the Contra Code will create a screen flare effect in Facebook.  If you didn’t know this, you should try it.  Log into Facebook and use the Konami code: up up down down left right left right b a (enter).  Now wherever your mouse is on the screen will have a flare.  Fun!

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To see the Contra Code in action on Facebook without using it on ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/08/facebooks-easter-egg-contra-and-apps-that-show-profit/feed/ 2 Why There Won’t Be a Google Killer http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/28/why-there-wont-be-a-google-killer/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/28/why-there-wont-be-a-google-killer/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:57:49 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=1885 A search engine which has been making waves in the blogosphere for the last day or two is Cuil (pronounced "cool"). You've probably used it twice already, and its random search results (in some cases, the worst ever served by a search engine) do less to serve and more to amaze. ]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/28/why-there-wont-be-a-google-killer/feed/ 20 The Rev2 Cabinet: MixerCast http://www.rev2.org/2008/03/09/the-rev2-cabinet-mixercast/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/03/09/the-rev2-cabinet-mixercast/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:26:18 +0000 Zach Sims http://www.rev2.org/2008/03/05/the-rev2-cabinet-mixercast/

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Online advertising is no joke. Recent estimates peg interactive ad revenues in 2007 at $25.5 billion, a 27% increase over 2006's approximate revenues. The quick moving segment currently makes up approximately 6.1% of the global ad market. An IDC report sees a general pattern that "companies are redistributing advertising dollars from ...

]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/03/09/the-rev2-cabinet-mixercast/feed/ 4 The Rev2 Cabinet: Idée http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/28/the-rev2-cabinet-idee/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/28/the-rev2-cabinet-idee/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:21:46 +0000 Zach Sims http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/28/the-rev2-cabinet-idee/ Most of the companies that get the most publicity are for personal use only. Yet others, whether they appeal to the commercial market or something else, help to form the very backbone of the internet. Idée Inc. is one of these companies. Idée is a pioneer in the field of image recognition and visual search. The company's two hallmark products, PixID and Piximilar, target different areas of the market while utilizing much of the same technology ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/28/the-rev2-cabinet-idee/feed/ 4 The Rev2 Cabinet: RockYou http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/19/the-rev2-cabinet-rockyou/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/19/the-rev2-cabinet-rockyou/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:16:52 +0000 Zach Sims http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/19/the-rev2-cabinet-rockyou/

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Interview with Jia Shen, CTO of RockYou!
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Now, nearly every website you visit has a widget. Almost everything is embeddable, whether it’s the ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/19/the-rev2-cabinet-rockyou/feed/ 7 The Rev2 Cabinet: Zoho http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/13/the-rev2-cabinet-zoho/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/13/the-rev2-cabinet-zoho/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:03:11 +0000 Zach Sims http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/13/the-rev2-cabinet-zoho/ Podcast Interview with Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist at Zoho [Download MP3] [50:56]

Introduction What does Zoho do? It's certainly hard to define. No matter how they do it, they're going about it differently than the ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/13/the-rev2-cabinet-zoho/feed/ 11 The Rev2 Cabinet: Pageflakes http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/06/the-rev2-cabinet-pageflakes/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/06/the-rev2-cabinet-pageflakes/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:58:46 +0000 Zach Sims http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/06/the-rev2-cabinet-pageflakes/ [Download MP3] [50:56]

There was a time when reading from one source was enough for anyone. The New York Times, or portals like Yahoo! captivated the attention of readers in the pre-Web 2.0 era. In the modern day, however, the need for information can’t be sated by one source. Instead, users traverse the Internet in search of dozens of sites that appeal to the niche they’re looking for information from. RSS feeds, invented by web pioneer Dave Winer, are widely touted as one of the greatest successes of the “Web 2.0 revolution,” and with good reason. ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/02/06/the-rev2-cabinet-pageflakes/feed/ 5 The Rev2.org Podcast Episode 1: Facebook Roundtable http://www.rev2.org/2007/06/19/the-rev2org-podcast-episode-1-facebook-roundtable/ http://www.rev2.org/2007/06/19/the-rev2org-podcast-episode-1-facebook-roundtable/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:57:11 +0000 Zach Sims http://www.rev2.org/2007/06/19/the-rev2org-podcast-episode-1-facebook-roundtable/ Editor’s Note: Yes, the rumours are true, Rev2 now has its own podcast! The podcast is essentially, well, a podcast version of the blog — focusing on ‘Web 2.0, technology, and new media.’ We’ll feature exclusive interviews, roundtables and profiles with and of some of the most important people and players in this industry. We need your subscriptions! Here’s our podcast feed. You can also subscribe through iTunes.

The release of the Facebook Platform has enabled a large number of things for developers and players in the Web 2.0 space. In this episode, we host a roundtable ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2007/06/19/the-rev2org-podcast-episode-1-facebook-roundtable/feed/ 3