YouTube Labs, in an obvious jab at its own Web 2.0yness, has created The Smiley Face Factory, a profile picture creation tool. Why, you ask? Because “profile pictures are so Web 1.0”. You might find this feature a little underwhelming, but YouTube doesn’t think so.
We believe The Smiley Face Factory will revolutionize how the online world expresses itself and will push the boundaries of Web 2.0 into Web 3.0.
I compliment YouTube on its willingness to break new ground and always be on the cutting edge of innovation, I just hope they haven’t gone too far this time ; ).
[YouTube - The Smiley Face Factory]
doodleBug’s “oodles of doodles” offer a Web 2.0 style sneak peak/behind the scenes look at the creation of some very beautiful pieces of art. The site features a myriad of black and white drawings, and when you click on them, you can watch the creation of each piece, line by line. There’s even a rating system so that you can view only the best. A neat concept indeed.
[doodleBug]
[Via: bookofjoe]
If you’ve been dying to get your blog/social network on, but MySpace and Facebook just don’t do it for you, Vox may be your savior. A new and simple blogging platform from Six Apart, Vox is a new site that’s aiming to give you an outlet to the world (or something like that). Interesting features include the ability to share video, pictures, and anything you can grab from YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Amazon, etc., 150 stock designs so you can’t clutter everything up MySpace style (king of Web 1.0), privacy controls so you can only stalk those you know (ala Facebook), and easy following of what your friends and family are saying (ala anything Web 2.0). Having just come out of beta, Vox is sure to be the social networking bandwagon of choice for the next few weeks, so jump on it soon, you never know when one of these things is going to take off.
[Vox]
{Via: Mashable!]
Flickr has reached a total of a quarter of a billion uploaded photos, and gained 150 million photos in only seven months. Very impressive work for the king of Web 2.0.
[Flickr]
[Via: Boing Boing]
[Via: Media Culpa]
…Draw Here lets you tag the web?
Draw Here is an interesting and unique way of interacting with web pages. Using their bookmarklet, you can draw over web pages with the given tools as you browse them. Then, if you save your drawings, others will be able to see them the next time they visit that same page. The drawings can be used to share artwork, comment on web pages, or to just doodle while you’re browsing. Of course the popular web sites (anything web 2.0) will probably be covered in a constant stream of stupid doodles and tag signs, but I think the real potential of this would be to hide your drawing on a somewhat obscure site so that it isn’t covered over or altered by others, and then someone can stumble across it one day and really appreciate the work that was done. Sadly, It’ll probably just end up in the hands of twelve year old boys drawing stick figure porn all over the place until it fades into obscurity, but I guess that’s just they way things have to be sometimes.
[Draw Here]