Revamping it!

A lot of new things are happening on the net the last few days. It seems everyone is releasing new designs lately. Last week we saw the new layout for Linked-In. Not only the layout changed by also the ability to add a message under your name in Facebook styling.
Youtube announced it will be broadcasting LIVE streaming.  Just after having released a new personal page last week
As asked:

Meyers: “When are you guys gonna do live video on YouTube?”

Chen (co-founder): “2008. We’ll do it this year. Live video is just something that we’ve always wanted to do, we’ve never had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google, we hope to actually do it this year.”

They also announced a new home page with more web 2.0-like features as custom recommendations, latest feeds & friend activity. The youtube experience as they claim themselves will be “to gauge people’s interest in having a YouTube that’s tailored to the individual.”

Also news sites are following. The BBC announced the launch of their new homepage with drag-n-drop features.
As always Belgian news sites are way behind! Our local news site De Redactie

is way behind the powerful features this website offers. (I’m not the only one finding “De Redactie” a very ugly site by the way!)

This new BBC page let’s you customize content & layout. Quite handy for a news site since YOU decide what you want to read first.

Other sites announced updates. Facebook has added a few translations. You can now add German & Spanish as default languages. I myself am starting to skip all posts concerning Facebook.
Why? Because it’s starting to bother me extremely. We all know and must admit that Facebook is a SPAM-generator in your mailbox. I’m getting tons of unwanted e-mails. I’m even considering making a new e-mail account only for Facebook and other social website’s… (-> If I want to be social, I’ll be social I don’t want my mailbox to be socialized )

I was glad to find another blogger thinking what I’ve said since the beginning: Facebook is annoying & ugly. It only has one handy feature: nearly everyone I know is a registered user…!

more updates soon I guess