Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube - a few of the Web 2.0 & mobile applications tracking the Mumbai attacks in quasi real time along with the aftermath. Twitter was apparently faster than CNN in reporting the initial events, according to TechCrunch:
These are actually a couple of years old, so avid users of Flickr may have already seen them. I just came across them for the first time last night, however, via a link on Hacker News and found them very amusing, so I thought I’d share.
Flickr's streaming videos are concise, higher-quality than similar vid-sharing sites, and hard to download using web-based converters. Orbit Downloader, the runner-up to our readers' five favorite download managers, can grab the FLV file from a Flickr video and drop it wherever you'd like, and the software's maker has posted a short tutorial on how to pull it off. Orbit doesn't seem to work with Chrome all that well, but users of IE, Firefox, or Opera should have no trouble getting their files. As for the FLV itself, check our list of the Top 10 free video encoders and converters.
I'm noticing recently that a lot of business/company blogs are very stale and boring. Here's some simple ways you can add flair and personality to your blog.
Guess which US state has Flickr users most likely to post their photos with privacy restrictions turned on? Utah. Think you can guess relative emphasis put on privacy by Flickr users in South America vs. South East Asia? How about Hawaii vs. Alaska? (That one might surprise you!)
An unbelievable fotograph - on Google Top 30 for three days.
I’ve been a big fan of Moo, a printing company that makes diminutive business cards drawn from Flickr images, for a few months now. The cards I created with a picture of Adam Reuters on the front and my Second Life contact details on the back were a hot ticket when I did interviews [...]
I noted in a recent post that interest in machinima is broadening rapidly. So, if you would like try your hand at it and to learn some machinima basics, Moo Money, Kiwi Alfa and other members of the Second Life...
So basically it combines all the myspace features minus the slow as hell loading and the features of facebook minus the plain look. and adds its own features like picasa, flickr, and delicio.us integration and others. theres like 10 people on the site right now and it would be cool if myspacers switched to it so spread the word. :)
Inspired by the Flickr Buddy Icon Reply script posted earlier today, I put together a short user script that lets you quickly add a fellow commenter's name to your Lifehacker comment for easy responses meant for individuals. With the script installed, a [reply by name] link will appear within each comment in a thread.
