Web2.0 Startups
5 Incredibly Simple, Yet Useful Web Sites
Sometimes (very often, in my case) youd like a web site or service to cut through the crap and just keep it simple, right? Well, every now and then a service thats really easy to use ends up in our ....... read more
3 days ago
Phlook at This and Tell Me What You Think
Photo annotations are not new, but that hasnt stopped Singapore-based Phlook from jumping into this market. The service aims to make photos interactive by housing them within a Flash widget. The fea ....... read more
3 days ago
Meezoog Really Understands Your Relationships
Upon first glance, Meezoog seemed like just another dating social network to us, but the developers insisted that we should take another look, claiming that its really different from the rest. Theyr ....... read more
4 days ago
Lycos Europe To Shut Down; Is Recession Taking a Toll on Old Giants?
Remember Lycos? It was once an unavoidable name on par with the Facebooks and the Twitters of the current world, but things change fast on the Internet. Its European arm, Lycos Europe, is shutting dow ....... read more
4 days ago
Pandora vs Mufin: A Head to Head Music Melee
Jennifer Van Grove is a Social Media Strategist. She authors a blog about San Diego, technology, startups and social media at JenniferVanGrove.com.
Online music sites have been offering up a melodiou ....... read more
6 days ago
Drop.io Has a New Face, Makes File Sharing Even Simpler
File sharing service Drop.io has undergone a front page redesign which gets rid of everything unnecessary and focuses on really simple file sharing.
Additional options like password, permissions and ....... read more
7 days ago
Lively, and Three Other Google Flops
Google was once invincible and unable to make a mistake. Well, although its share price is not what it used to be, one can argue theyre still invincible in most areas theyve dabbled in, but the mist ....... read more
11 days ago
Zenbe: Email Aggregation Socialized
Zenbe, an email aggregator that dips its toes in social networking, adding a hefty number of features to your regular webmail experience to make it worthwhile, is now out of beta and available to ever ....... read more
14 days ago
Mint 11: Hang With Celebs and Elites for Just $10 a Month
There?s social networking of the MySpace and Facebook variety, and then there?s social networking of the premium, ?classy,? ?sophisticated,? ?not-for-everyone? kind that carries a price to join. The l ....... read more
15 days ago
Twingr: Create Your Own Twitter
There are a number of microblogging engines in existence today that work the build-your-own angle of the market. The corporate and closed Yammer and the open source Laconi.ca are two such enablers.
We ....... read more
18 days ago
Twitter: One Billion Tweets. Wow.
Popacular, a site that measures popularity of websites according to the number of related tweets, has a huge counter that counts the overall number of tweets. I dont know how accurate this thing can ....... read more
19 days ago
Yahoo Reinvents the Web Portal
Want to know what the future for big web portals will look like? Yahoos developer team might just have an answer. Using YUI 2.x and YUI 3-based framework, theyre working on a new front page that wil ....... read more
19 days ago
Keepaboo: Your Child in 3D
Playing off the age-old ?Peek-a-Boo? game played by kids and adults near and far, Keepaboo is a semi-3D digital book creator that lets users share unique and beautiful memories.
Most anything can be i ....... read more
19 days ago
HOW TO: Grow a Startup 300% in 3 Days? SocialMedian Tells All
SocialMedian was barely a thought for people back in February, but it has gained a solid following in the 9 months
of its existence. Many people would ask why this startup has gained any traction. It ....... read more
20 days ago
What to do After Selling Your Startup to Microsoft? Sell Toilet Paper and Trash Bags
In 2007, Microsoft acquired Jellyfish, a social search engine that ultimately became the Live Search Cashback program. The company?s founders ? Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire ? have since moved on, an ....... read more
20 days ago
RefSeek is Google for Students and Scientists
Google used to be a great tool for researchers, but then it got swarmed by billions of links from companies trying to sell you something. Clearing your way through all this information can be (and oft ....... read more
21 days ago
Social Bookmarking for Firefox: A Refresher
Reddits developers have been busy adding a bunch of new features to the site. One of them is a neat Firefox plugin that brings a lot of Reddits functionality directly to the browser. Lets take a lo ....... read more
21 days ago
FriendFeed Now Has Cute Little Maps
VentureBeat has discovered that FriendFeed has quietly rolled out a new feature: support for geotagging and geoRSS.
This means that whenever you update a service that contains location information, F ....... read more
Fri,
07 Nov 2008
Drop.io?s New API Lets Anyone Build a File Sharing Application
File sharing service Drop.io has just launched a new API that allows developers to utilize most of the functions that the site offers in their own applications. This means that you can allow users of ....... read more
Wed,
05 Nov 2008
Remember The Milk Comes to the iPhone
Fans of Web-based calendar/reminder application Remember the Milk will be happy to know that the iPhone version of the application is now available in the App store. This is different from the Web ver ....... read more
Wed,
05 Nov 2008