Archive for October, 2006

MyBlogLog is a new community service to empower blog’s authors and readers to learn about and engage with one another out there in the digital world. Readers can become friends with other people who read your favorite blogs and see what else they are reading. It also features MySpace, Friendster profiles and ability to view [...]

The Jamendo homepage bravely states ‘Jamendo – Open Your Ears’. Unfortunately, there’s no jazzy music on the homepage for me to bop to, so the whole thing seemed flawed from the start. Thankfully, after testing the service myself, I found that it’s a case of not judging a book by its cover, or in this [...]

Are you a webmaster? Try to ask yourself some of these questions: How well marketed and popular your website is? How well designed and built your website is? How accessible your website is, particularly to those with disabilities? How satisfying your website is likely to be? You can easily check your answer HERE( http://sitescore.silktide.com ) [...]

You have your NYTimes’ front page, and your Yahoo! News, and a myriad of other items, but what if you’re looking for something a bit different. Something with a bit of everything, without looking congested or draped in intrusive adverts, maybe? Enter, Topix. Coined as a destination built around the mantra of “Local News for [...]

If you’re the owner of a Web 2.0 just like Profy.com or my own Tech.co.nr, then you’ll know that even if you have the best content out there, it’s no good if people don’t read it. I’m just going to give you the top few tips I use to drive people to my blog. There’s [...]

Bright Cove, the popular video startup company, has officially announced the launch of what they call the BrightCove Network. The new service allows “small time” directors and movie makers to monetize their work and present it to a large audience over the web. Using BrightCove gives video makers credibility as the company has worked with [...]

Popular shopping search engine JellyFish.com just announced that they have raised over $5 million in series B funding from investors that included Kegonsa Capital Partners and Clyde Street Investments. The web site, which is still in Beta, allows users to search for products they need, and then get in depth reviews and pricing information. The [...]

Paul’s post on Ajax for the Common Coder touched on the core of Web 2.0 development – you just can’t build a community fast, unless you’re building with the community. In time 2.0, the difference between borrowing the barrow or reinventing the wheel is the same difference between leapfrogging, or being left behind. Wiki’s and [...]

A new helpline, if you happen to have a boss you’d rather not have. One option, of course, is to find another position. But if you’re quite happy where you are, and he (or she) is the only fly in the ointment…. Employmint is a new … um, you can’t really call it social networking [...]