Archive for October, 2006

FON Freedom Friday event in Union Square is a give away of 500 FON routers to those milling around mostly workers on their lunch break, now ain’t getting free stuff so cool. Joanna Rees Gallanter, the company’s new executive in charge of U.S. operations said the low cost subscription fees for non-community member day passes will bring in revenue, plus once the company gets to a sizable amount of users there are other ways to bring in revenue from a [...]

Bittorent has become the staple innovation for sharing files, both large and small, with an efficiency factor directly attributable to the number of active users at certain moment. It’s known to keep bandwidth allotments stable and evenly spread, and succeeds in keeping demand, however high, from crashing any single server. Of course, it’s known to be utilized for illicit purposes, but it has also been widely adopted by many in the open-source - and a number of proprietary software developers. [...]

This is an unusual turn of events to make even the most experienced marketing analyst turn round and stare. Google, (no need for an intro into who they are!) have bought the highly popular, online wiki creation service, JotSpot. Recently, it seems, Google have been buying out all of its competitors and expanding its company into the next gen Web 2.0 media frontier dramatically, with this acquisition being only the next step in their roadmap to total domination. JotSpot, used [...]

Yesterday’s post highlighted resources on the web for the uber-geek coder delighting in applets, widgets and mashups by the dozen. But what if you prefer a safe swimming pool to the ocean deeps? What happens if the ends rather the means are what take your fancy? If building the networks and the community are your thing, not tweaking code for bug eradication?
One of the beauties of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies is the infinite array of options available to [...]

Pocket is a service provided by ThinkPocket. It functions as a storage site to allow you to share your favorite url links with others and allows you to see what others have kept. You can also use the ‘Add’ button but you still have to key in the url and a title. There is also space to write down notes. The sites you add show in will be show in your pocket as thumbnails and on mouseover some details are [...]

Company Hits Milestone Membership and Records More than $20 Million in Loans Within Months of Launch
 
San Francisco – October 31, 2006 – Prosper (http://www.prosper.com), America’s first people-to-people lending marketplace, today announced that its membership has topped the 100,000 mark. The company, which launched in February of 2006, has also generated more than $20 million in loans within that same time period.
“This milestone signals a shift in the way Americans are managing their money, proving that many of them desire a [...]

Judging by the Google’s PageRank of Certifyr.com, which is 7/10 (shown in Firefox 2.0 browser) as at 31st October 2006, it looks like a lot of people are flocking to this Web 2.0 site to… what else… if not getting their website certified as Web 2.0 compliant.
And what would you think the criteria used for certification? Hold your breath….
What is your website address?
What’s on your site? (separated by spaces):
Example: blog streamingvideo ecommerce humor video searchengine
What’s your site about? (separated by [...]

Here’s another good news for online communities!! Vicito is a group messaging site that allows you to send text messages to your members from anywhere. It can be used for e-mail, cell phone text message or Google talk, Jabber.org and Gizmo project instant messenger systems. Vicito allows its members to form their own group according to topic of interest and location.
Members can also join  existing groups within the Vicito community. Members are in control over when and where messages reach [...]

If you just love using Yahoo! Online tools, then you should try the new Yahoo! Bookmarks that makes surfing the web easier. You just need to only login once and all your favorite apps are available. Yahoo! Bookmarks is as good as del.icio.us and has its own appearance or superb layout. The available options included organising and tagging your bookmarks so that it will be easy to search. I would think that Yahoo is pretty slow in coming out with [...]