Archive for October, 2006

If you’ve been contributing your fair share to the podcasting scene and have been using your post-production time frantically playing the role of a sonic god, adjusting audio levels, trying to get it all perfect and compressed before the file gets pushed out to the masses – there’s hope. The savior comes via GigaVox Media [...]

loc.alize.us is a smart way to browse and locate Flickr images on a large map of the world. loc.alize.us makes heavy use of different online resources in the form of mashups of services like Google maps and Flickr photos. loc.alize.us is fairly easy to use and you can simply ‘Geotag’ to let your friends who’re [...]

If you can’t beat them, join ‘em. What do most students do with their laptops in the classroom? Surf Flickr, Digg, MySpace, Youtube (or is it now GooTube?) or others of their ilk. Block access to these through the network? Scores of proxy sites like this one springing up to meet the demand. Ban Laptops [...]

Remember the old days when everyone and his brother jumped on the “dot-com” bandwagon? And the famous “We’re the dot in dot com? ” (As an aside, looks like Sun wants to update it to “We’re the dot in 2.0″) As the latest buzzword, Web 2.0′s become de rigueur in any kind of promotional activity. [...]

Perhaps one of the best, if not the best free ajax powered shoutboxes out there, Planet MiniBox looks the part with its streamlined CSS design and plays it well. The most exciting feature that sets MiniBox apart though is not its excellent chat, but its tabbed private messaging service. You can have a confidential chat [...]

Yahoo upgraded their charting software with new web 2.0 like charting features to join in the crazy trend. Visit the stock summary page at yahoo and click on “charts” on the left. It will load a new AJAX like stock quote chart for that stock symbol. The interface is nice and quick and even allows [...]

San Diego-based WebSideStory has launched a new Ajax-based site search product which is available to its customers. The Active Browsing is part of the firm’s WebSideStory Search offerings. It provides interactive searches of e-commerce web sites which allows users to browse through a web site or product catalog interactively without having to reload pages in [...]

Online companies that include user-generated content, aka a “blogging” community, as a huge part of their business model have been around for a while now. This model is even being used by search engines, with http://del.icio.us/ as the most prominent example. The web 2.0 site, del.icio.us (pronounced as “delicious”) is a social network for storing, sharing, [...]

With the growing popularity of Internet Videos and the rising trend of major television networks playing new shows online before they air, FOX has announced that they have teamed up with MySpace to air new episodes of upcoming shows. It was announced that the first two episodes of one of the FOX’s most popular shows, [...]