According to a post in the Yahoo Search Blog by Randy Farmer, Yahoo has officially started an invite-only beta of their social networking/photo sharing/blogging platform Yahoo! 360. Randy’s 360 page can be found here - I wonder why that URL needs to be that complicated and unreadable. If anybody can send invites allready, I would love to get one: thomas at fruetel dot net.
Wombat Mobile shows how to use the integrated browser in Wipeout Pure to actually surf the web using a PlayStation Portable. The catch: A regular PC is needed as proxy to do this, making it rather useless as a real world application. Still it’s a nice prove of concept.
Update: Somebody had to improve on this. Seni from Wombat Mobile just pointed me to this site, which shows a way to do it by just changing the DNS settings on the PSP to a special public gateway without requiring any extra computers.
Most bloggers are curious what Yahoo’s blog platform will look like, and if and how they are going to integrate Flickr. Charlene Li had the opportunity to have a look at Yahoo! 360 and published an interesting review along with two screenshots on her site. No sign of Flickr yet.
You want to provide a podcast on your website, but are afraid of high bandwidth costs? Blog Torrent might be the solution: It is a script for offering downloads from your website via the bittorrent protocol. It promises easy uploading of large files, and publishes an RSS feed of all published torrents.
The Flickr blog just announced that Yahoo! has finally acquired Flickr. While Flickr is the only really useful photo sharing website on the net, it might be good to finally have a major player behind this. Let’s just hope that big Y does not cripple the platform as it did with it’s on groups before. It will also be interesting to see if and how Flickr will be integrated in Yahoo’s soon to be launched Blog Platform. The event is also discussed at Flickr Central.
Del.icio.us is a great web application, but the interface is just plain ugly to most users. Jeff Bostick has a short tutorial on how to make del.icio.us look a lot nicer. You need Firefox and either the URIid or the chromedit extension, as well as a stylesheet originally developed by Jon Hicks for use with the Mac.
In a five minute screencast, Jon Udell demonstrates the power of the social bookmark service del.icio.us. This is a great example of structuring and organising information by tagging and sharing.