Many Nexus One users have been enjoying  Android 2.2 aka Froyo for a couple of months already leaving Verizon’s Motorola Droid users wondering what the hold up was seeing as how the Droid runs Stock Android 2+ as well.

Now the wait is  finally over, roms of Froyo were made available yesterday for eager users to manually upgrade their Droids. Instructions for manually upgrading to Froyo can be found at Android Forums.

Some of the notable new features of  Android 2.2 are Read the rest of Droid Finally Gets Froyo »

CLCL is a clipboard cache/manager for Windows that I’ve been using for a few years now. Once launched it sits idly in your system tray waiting to be used. It’s simple to use yet highly customizable, letting you configure options such as shortcut keys, menu width, number of items stored in the cache, and left and right mouse click actions.

CLCL also has some plug-ins available for download which allow you to do things like change the letter case of text, add quotation marks, remove quotation marks, remove character formatting,  add tags, or directly edit the clipboard contents yourself. Read the rest of Software Spotlight: CLCL »

The new Digg adds features and layout which emphasize the users network instead of site wide content. I think this is a good move by Digg to stay competitive in the social media sphere considering the rate at which  some networks are stealing incorporating primary features from other sites. The site still maintains it’s focus as a content submission / rating tool, and all comments are still posted on submitted content and not user profiles. But now Digg  focuses on content submitted by a users network first and site wide content second. Read the rest of The New Digg »

There is no doubt that MySpace is no longer the golden child of the internet that it once was and maybe it will never see those glory days again, but with a Google PageRank of 9 and an Alexa Rank of 21 it’s obvious the social networking site is far from dead.

The Benefits of Using MySpace

Customization: MySpace’s double-edged sword. No 1984/Equlibriumesq profiles here, MySpace allows for a level of customization unparalleled by most other social networks. Version 2.0 of its site profiles even switches to tableless layouts with ids and classes which make it easy to apply css styling.  Stylization with custom graphics, colors and layout, are highly beneficial to branding, and can help distinguish user identities and correlate profiles across different networks. The down side of this for MySpace is those profiles with poorly implemented markup, less than tasteful designs, and those bogged down with too many media objects (animations, audio, video, etc), early in its history this also made the site a phishing magnet untill they started filtering external links.  It’s a common belief that the negative aspects of customization caused many people to stop using MySpace, so whats a social network to do?  Maybe scaling back on the amount of customization allowed on user profiles would appease some, I personally think limiting the amount and size of media elements which can be embedded into a profile would be a good start. Read the rest of My Take on MySpace »