Archive for October, 2006

ReminderFeed is a very interesting application based around the idea of notifying your feed-reader at a certain time of a certain event. You can subscribe with any reader out there, but ReminderFeed conveniently adds a few chicklets in the left hand sidebar for you anyway! ‘MSN’, ‘Bloglines’, ‘Yahoo’, ‘Newsgator’ and ‘Google’ mean that if you use one of the previously mentioned services, you can get your reminder up and running instantly.
How does it work? Well, the page is a plain [...]

When I was informed by Colbert that a startup was looking for a blogger, I became instantly interested. I didnt’t even know the name of the startup, but neither did I ask. All I knew was that it is about everything Web 2.0. When I was accepted, only then I knew it was Profy.com.
The name was really catchy, nice and easy to remember. Upon knowing Profy.com, my mind instantly tried to figure out what is it really the founders wanted [...]

Own a small business? Operate a club at college? Just looking to find a way to collaborate with others while remaining free of software licensing issues more making great expenditures just to do virtual group work as seamlessly as possible? We’ll there’s hope, and it lies in the fingers of the clan over at 37signals.
Their products aren’t grabbing headlines at the WSJ, and there’s only a tiny chance that they’ll bring industry megaliths like Microsoft to the ground, but with [...]

Zapr.net’s homepage looks rather advertising, but unlike all of the other big companies offering you fantastic free hosting offers that never come real, if you’re just looking for a place to store and share your pictures, videos or documents, Zapr is for you. The Zapr.net homepage promises to let you ‘Share stuff with your friends. No file size restrictions. No uploading. No attachments. No charge. It’s Free and easy.’ and for once, one of these big companies is actually telling [...]

Since Profy.com is a fresh site, I’d still want to blog about what the heck Web 2.0 is all about. I’ll let the other talented ProBloggers at Profy.com scour the net and feature all they can find about Web 2.0 sites… hopefully there will be some left for me to cover when I am done…if ever…with this….:)
I’d like to bring your attention to Michael Arrington’s get together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about [...]

Thumbq is a new image hosting that gives trendy, stylish, flexible and free images hosting service to the users and webmasters. It has currently five features which is the typical collection page, gallery view, slide show, transitional thumbnail set, standard links, account area, and collection or set creator. In a nutshell, Thumbq is a very straight-forward image hosting solution that makes uploading and sharing images easy. I just hope this site does not die off after one year and it [...]

I’m hooked on the name alone. Filangy is a beta product created for breaking the chains of a one-PC lifestyle without having to reorient yourself or start your online journeys from scratch with every visit to a machine that is not your main box. Call it a remote cache server, simplified.
How it works: Say you’ve been researching a great deal of information at work or at school, and you can’t lug a tower back to your residence. This is where [...]

You can’t have Web 2.0 without Web 2.0 development, can you? In that case, if you’re a developer looking for a pool of usefuls, you’ll find Ajax goodies galore over at Real World Software Development.
Ajax, short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, has contributed enormously to what we now consider the new generation of web apps (spiffy email clients, integrated real-time web page aggregation services, etc.), so much so that your survival as a designer/coder depends on your knowing the ins [...]

Quite a number of people consider Google to be the top search tool - according to Searchenginewatch, it’s a shade below half of all searches. But is that really the best option.
For general searches, maybe. But if you’re looking for some specific information, do you really fancy wading through a gazillion links to find the one that you’re looking for? Especially when you’re not too sure of knowing which answer is right?
Enter any number of niche search-and-answer contenders.
Kosmix offers niche [...]