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Web 2.0 news: iJigg, MySpace issues, Web 2.0 usability, Hi5, Get a First Life

iJigg logoIt's another iService. iJigg at least has some reference to the service it is providing, and is also a play on "Digg", because it's a music ratings service. I like music discovery services, though as TechCrunch points out, this system is as susceptible to vote rigging as Digg is. The music is only playable via the service itself, or any web site that embeds the music, so at present there's no way to download the music (I suppose you could record it the old-fashioned way)

Mashable reports on the ongoing saga of MySpace (supposedly) disabling Flash support. It seems that nearly all is well again.

Meanwhile, MySpace is being sued by parents whose children had been abused by people they met online. It's a horrendous situation and raises the interesting point of how much responsibility parents should take for the well-being of their kids online. A lot, I say.

Ujj has an interesting post on the visual usability of some Web 2.0 sites, writing that Web 2.0 graphics may be hurting your eyes!

TechCrunch reports that Hi5 may be the second largest social network, after seeing traffic surges - up 15% month over month according to an executive at a widget startup company. This traffic seems to be coming from a large international (non-US) market.

TechCrunch reports on Darren Barefoot's "Get a First Life" parody site.

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