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How Apple Could Improve iTunes Genius

Posted by Chris September 17, 2008
Categories: Apple, Featured, Social Networks

Genius was introduced in Apple iTunes 8. It is a feature that enables users to created playlists of music that ‘go together well’.

Since its introduction iTunes Genius has had an unfair amount of criticism. While it is not perfect, Genius is a useful tool which will improved upon given time.

While Genius relies on mass user input to work perhaps Apple should consider joining forces with some software and web-based services that already exist to greatly improve the feature.

Firstly, when I first read about Genius (before the official launch) I thought it would actually analyse the music itself rather than just data about user music collections and playing habits.

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New Design Makes Bookmarking Site Delicious [dot com]

Posted by Chris August 01, 2008
Categories: Design, Featured, Social Networks, Web

Today del.icio.us became delicious.com as the infamous bookmarking website’s excellent new design went live. The long awaited redesign looks streamlined and incorporates fast loading ajax features that simplifies use.

“The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at.”

Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

A short animation was also published to illustrate the differences between the old del.icio.us and the redesign:

A year in Beta

This redesign has been in the pipeline for over a year and early previews gave a clear indication of what was to be expected of the new site. However the aforementioned blog post by The Delicious Team also indicated that new features are in development and may be added in the near future.

“It has taken us a while to get here, and we really appreciate all the patience and support you’ve shown us. Now that our new platform is in place we expect to release new features more quickly.”

For more information about the changes take a look at the Delicious What’s New page.

Best comment about the redesign so far?

By DrFunke on digg.com:

“Hmm, now I can’t access it from work because the network nannies think delicious.com is a porn site. Anyone else having this problem?”

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delicious.com screenshot

Posted by Chris August 01, 2008
Categories: Design, Social Networks

delicious.com screenshot, originally uploaded by Marshall24.

The great redesign for the relaunch of what is now delicious.com — cleaner, fresher and more dynamic and a lot faster.

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Popular FriendFeeders

Posted by Chris July 07, 2008
Categories: Social Networks

Step 2—Geek Party!, originally uploaded by bizstone.

This screenshot, uploaded to Flickr by Twitter’s Biz Stone, provides a clue to how certain people have become increasingly ‘popular’ on friendfeed.com.

Allen Stern, of centernetworks.com explains why the likes Loic Le Meur, Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte have so many followers:

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