The guys over at CSS addict have a great article about web 2.0 design products that I though everyone would enjoy. As of late there are web 2.0 companies poping up everywhere and there are even more web 2.0 style designed sites, flash buttons etc. Below is a list of some of the most useful web 2.0 design generators in the marketplace today, and the best thing is they are all free!
It has just been announced by Imeem that they are now supporting OpenSocial on the Imeem Media Platform (http://www.imeem.com/developers).
Here is what imeem is releasing today:
· Full support for the core OpenSocial JavaScript APIs, including access to people and relationships on imeem as well as access to data persistence APIs
· Added support for the OpenSocial gadget xml, making it easy for developers to specify their entire application in the OpenSocial gadget xml standard
· imeem-specific OpenSocial extensions, making it possible for developers to access imeem’s media metadata through the OpenSocial JavaScript APIs. This includes the ability to get back a specific user’s media, search for media in imeem’s vast media library, as well as get access to music, video, and photo content on imeem.
Developers will be able to port their existing OpenSocial applications and place them into the Imeem network. Currently Imeem has over 24 milion users and this is now sure to increase because of this integration. OpenSocial is now reaching over 300 million users every month and Google just keep signing new member every month.
On the old Crenk website we profile Lending Club and now it seems that they have been able to secure some funding. Lending Club has closed a round of $10.26 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
Lending Club provides a peer lending service for Facebook users and now hopefully with this funding it will be able to expand. The site needs to be taken beyond Facebook and expanded on its website and possibly other social networks. The peer-lending and micro-lending market is experiencing quite a boom right now, with companies like GlobalFunder also getting investment for their services as well.
