Another photo service gets funded: San Francisco-based Piczo, which launched in 2004, has raised nearly $4m from Sierra Ventures and Catamount Ventures. The site has been a massive hit with teens and about 50% of the users are girls under 18.
This weekend I took some time off from the Web 2.0 echo-chamber to explore some more mainstream social software. My conclusions? MySpace is likely to be bigger and more influential than the blogosphere within a matter of months (if it isn’t already).
Now this is all pretty intuitive and I probably don’t need to explain it - simply put, the youth demographic consists of extremely sociable early adopters who remain constantly connected via cellphones and the Internet.*
Yahoo! Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator.
It is to web services, what the unix pipe ( the ‘|’ character) is to the command line.
With its nice visual editor, you can manipulate very easily multiple feeds, send them to other web services and so on…
