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Time Waster: U Can Beez a LOLCATZ with LOL Feeds

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This is probably the awesomest thing we've seen in a while. LOL Feeds takes the lolcat phenomenon and melds it with Twitter, Jaiku, Wordpress, or anything with an RSS feed!

Basically, you plug in your user name for Twitter (or an RSS feed of your choosing) and it will make what you've written into a lolcat complete with images and LOLFontz!

Here's an example one for you to play with:
http://lol.ianloic.com/feed/www.downloadsquad.com/rss.xml


The possibilities are endless here. Your blog, your Facebook news stream, Barack Obama's twitter account!

Make your own and post the link in the comments!

Filed under: Internet, Social Software, web 2.0

Obama most popular with tech savvy voters

As you may know, the New Hampshire primary for the US 2008 Presidential election is today. Although web 2.0 itself has not been positioned as a major campaign issue, the power of the web and social networks has played a large role in not only individual candidate campaigns, but in the debate process itself. Additionally, with his victory in the Iowa caucus, Democratic candidate Barack Obama has become the first candidate leading in Internet metrics to pull off a major victory. So this begs the question, are Obama's fans the most savvy and "connected" supporters? Well, in addition to having the most friends on MySpace and supporters on Facebook, Sen. Obama is also leading in the war of campaign widgets.

According to Widgetbox, a major distributed widget marketplace, Obama has nearly double the number of widget impressions as his nearest opponent. In fact, he has almost as many impressions as his two nearest competitors combined! These widgets are embedded on personal web pages, blogs and social networking sites. This certainly gives additional (if ancillary) credence to the idea that Obama is the most plugged-in candidate.

Widget Impressions from Widgetbox Widgets

What effect, if any will the candidates online popularity have on the polls? Keep checking the news, and DownloadSquad, to find out!

Filed under: Internet, Video, Features, Web services, Social Software

Politics 2.0 - the big one is here


In politics, candidates have to contend with big money, big labor, big special interest groups, big corporate, big media, and now, they have the mother lode of all bigs to exploit contend with - netroots. Netroots is derived from grassroots + internet to describe a new brand of political activism organized through blogs and other online media, including wikis and social network services. With over 100+ million American internet users, netroots is the ultimate big for politicians, where size of votes really does matter.

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, some 15% of all American adults say the internet was the place where they got most of their campaign news during the 2006 mid-term election, up from 7% in the mid-term election of 2002.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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