Archive for November, 2006

Whilst IE and Firefox duke it out for space in the desktop browser market, there’s a browser subculture subsisting on the appetites of smart-phone users, and a new edition to one of the favorites just broke surface: Opera Mini 3.0.
If you can believe it, with Opera Mini 3.0 one can read RSS feeds as gracefully as the actual web browsing experience is with the program; a treat in existence since its release in August of 2005. It’s come a “long, [...]

Do you hate it when you need to give away your “valid email address” to get that so called freebies? I hate that too, because this means that I am going to get more and more follow-ups from them, which I don’t really need at all. And when I found out about 2Prong, I immediately fell in love with the concept of this anonymous based email service. The design of the website is amazingly simple. The page will refresh and [...]

I have to admit, I’m a web statistics freak. There are at least three different stat packages installed on my websites, sometimes even four! I mainly use Google Analytics, which used to be Urchin, a web analytics company bought out by Google in 2005. Performancing Metrics is also quite good, it goes well with my blogs. The other two are served locally, namely Mint and Analog.
Now, the question is, do I really need another one? I read about Clicky at [...]

Several weeks back, I reported on Weebly, a website creator for beginners which worked in a drag-and-drop fashion. Today, I bring you something far more powerful. It???s called Squarespace.
Created by a Manhattan firm specializing in ???smarter web publishing,??? Squarespace offers a range of products, from blog creation to websites consisting of several pages. It allows those without the know-how of graphic design, HTML editing, or the ins and outs of blog software the potential to publish classy, professional-looking pages.
Squarespace launched [...]

Yahoo! TV has been around for quite some time, but when I heard that an all-new, Yahoo! TV had been released, I simply had to go and check it out. Yahoo! TV 2 has some rather interesting new additions to the already content-rich service it provides. Yahoo’s TV service is truly great. Best of all, unlike many other services, this thing really works! It allows you to surf the comprehensive listings with ease and quickly pick out interesting programs you [...]

For most people in business, email is probably the most useful web related application; it???s replaced snail mail and fax to a significant extent, it provides a quick way to communicate with multiple people, and to send response quickly. Where typically you would spend days waiting for a reply through the postal system, you can expect to get a response within hours to an email; to the point where people now routinely expect same day replies and aren???t willing to [...]

DigitalMediaStocks.com, DigitalMediaStocks.com, the investor and industry news portal for the digital media and technology sector recently featured DigitalFX as their new partner in order to take a bite on the social networking pie.
This new venture is expected to encourage its users to share any digital media content that they generate in an easier way. And the users will be able to share streamed media and podcasting online. DigitalMediaStocks is also planning to market its video sharing application which is available [...]

For once, even the almighty Google has to fail. It’s not often that we see offsprings of the company, particularly highly anticipated ones, just like Google Answers, die such a horrific death. The truth though is, that with Yahoo! Answers offering to pay people, and its existing current success, coupled with the fact that there are 101 other Web 2.0 start-ups out there, promising to do the same, there really was never any hope for Google Answers. Having been in [...]

Wisdump, a bin for news, factoids, detritus, and everything in between, put up a list of ten “losers” of the Web 2.0 world that’s been floating around the web for quite a while, and I thought it was time to give it another once over to see if the list still sticks. I won’t go through them all, because I’d hate to be accused of copycatting a blog post, but I’ll do my best to sum it up.
What I first [...]