Archive for October, 2006

LuLu.com, aside from meaning ‘ReadRead.com’ in French is a great book self-publishing service which just so happens to be free. You write a book, upload it to LuLu and people can buy it straight away. LuLu does all of the printing, meaning that you just have to set a price. LuLu deduct a percentage of what you make as a fee for the ‘on-demand’ printing service, but you get the majority of the profits made from your book. Your book, [...]

The Flickr Logo Maker from NOSV is nothing more than a simple online tool that lets you create your very own Flickr style logo. Flickr’s simple, yet revolutionary logo changed the face of the internet forever back when it was first released. The simplicity, the style and the elegance combined together in one snazzy package. Although nothing more than the word ‘flick’ in blue and the ‘r’ in pink, it introduced a whole new era of design standards into the [...]

YouTube has given itself a rather sleek, new re-design in the past few days. A new logo, new buttons, fonts and colouring, frequent YouTube users are having to adapt to the new, re-vamped design. The ‘channels’ section has gone green, the ‘groups’ section taking a more bright orange. The social filters no longer show up down the right-hand side, but the left and a footer has been added to every page, allowing for quick access to major features of the [...]

ProjectPipe.com is a brilliant Web 2.0 solution that helps teams of people to easily collaborate, reduce the risk of a late deadline or delivery risk by simplifying management. ProjectPipe has many great and interesting features including RSS, Tagging, the ability to manage any project data as an outline, and some really top-notch Microsoft Project/Excel integration. The integration between the Issue list and in-built subversion source code repository provides an easy alternative to standard methods with its nice automated bugfix workflow. [...]

Veeker is a mobile video site which makes Mobile Video Communication fun and easy. The service is free of charge, which is good if they want to capture the teen market. Veeker will let you and your friends communicate instantly using the video cameras in your mobile phones which is called as an instant video communications “video peeks,” or VEEKS. The service catches mobile video clips sent by MMS and delivers the mobile video clips to contacts, public and personal [...]

Been tracking an interesting discussion on homophily on O’reilly - the social behavior of tending to interact and get together with people who think the same way. And whether social networking sites emphasise this.
You know, the old people who saw this also saw feature, or the friends feature reinforcing similarities.
But there are two natural tendencies - or maybe, human tendencies - which would break this.
First off, look at most of the social networking or interactive sites - digg, flickr, youtube [...]

An interesting sidelight to Web 2.0 is the emergence of new names to describe activities. Top of the list is “googled” as in “have you googled it?”, but there are others.
But there could be some inadvertent trip ups. Especially if you’re trying to make money off it. Consider this media firm, that wants to enable plinking. For those who’re interested, that’s product linking in consumer videos.
Here’s where the “oops” comes. Because someone forgot Google and Wikipedia.
Actually, Wikipedia isn’t too bad [...]

Bla.st is a new form of advertising created only recently by a team of leading experts. Already used by some of the biggest names around. Take Google, Digg, Skype, Mozilla, Flock and 9rules as some great examples. Bla.st lets you upload your own ‘cards’ for free. What are cards? Well, each card comes in a 270px X 175px size and can contain whatever you want. An image with your company logo on the front, some plain old text, whatever. Your [...]

MediaFire just launched earlier this month and it has been growing at a blistering pace. It is currently one of the top 13,000 most trafficked sites in the world (for today) according to Alexa Rankings.
The site allows you to host any size file you want at no cost. There is also no limit to how many files you can host and the service is financed soley on ad revenue so there is no cost for the user. Another great aspect [...]