Here’s a interesting Adobe AIR application made in about 5 minutes.

It literally took me 11 lines of code and a good 15 minutes to build. Decided to send it to Leo and was happy to hear how excited he was about the app and did a plug for it on the net@night and MacBreak Weekly podcasts.

You can use the application to watch the live video stream and see the schedule for upcoming shows. Looks like it was released just in time to see him do the 24 hour iPhone 3G launch marathon.

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In a recent launch of Google’s (GOOG) Friend Connect, Facebook has banned Google’s access temporarily until Google complies to Facebook’s specifications of sharing private data.

It’s hard to tell whether Facebook will ban Google completely but I think they are really trying to protect their own privacy policies at this point.

The day that Facebook goes public, I am buying shares though.

The fact is that Google is taking perfectly adequate steps to protect user privacy with their Friend Connect product, and it is a useful product for users. After talking with both sides, it seems to me that Facebook is relying on a very convenient catch-22 to stay out of Google’s network. They are the ones in control of their own API functionality, and they could add features that fix this problem. Until they do, there’s nothing Google can do to remedy the “problem,” and the walls around the Facebook garden get ever higher.

via techcrunch

It seems like everyday we see more web apps geared toward Facebook and Twitter.

Well, it should be obvious to everyone in the Web2.0 world that there’s a lot of money to be made by piggybacking on those bigger “whales”.

LiveTwitting brings you conference twitting at its finest with their launch.

Say you’re at a conference about the latest and greatest Twitter experiment and you want to tweet to your friends about what’s going on as it happens. Live Twitting will record all your tweets and assemble them into a single page for easy reading. It works with web, IM, SMS, twhirl, or twitterific.

via KillerStartups

I’ve been using Spotplex ever since their launch about a year ago.  A popular widget/digg like service, Spotplex announced yesterday (or today officially), it’s going offline for good.

Couple weeks ago, I tried to access Spotplex, the site wouldn’t load.

Yesterday, I tried to access Spotplex, the site loaded with a message saying Spotplex will be gone.
Today, I tried to access Spotplex, they now have a single HTML landing page like this:

We regret to inform you that Spotplex is going offline. This was a very hard decision for us and we are sure you will miss the service as much as we do.

If you are interested in our assets or in knowing more on the shutdown of Spotplex, you can reach us at support@spotplex.com

Thanks for your support.

The Spotplex Team

Condolences

Note: If you have embedded a Spotplex tracking code on your site, please remove it. You might get an error message if you still have it beyond 5/9.

I have been checking their traffic stats and they did great at launch but failed to keep it going.

I suspect their failure has something to do with failure of thinking about site revenue and viral marketing.

Although a great service (it used to be), here’s my condolences.

I wish they had kept the site running though, probably wouldn’t take more than 1 dedicated server at this point.

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