Archive for December, 2006

Dear John C. Dvorak, Something’s been bugging me for a while now. Having heard you rant on This Week in Tech and your new-ish IPTV development, Cranky Geeks, over the past several weeks, I must say, I’ve come around to your humbug nature. It was tolerable at first, and later quite irritating, but I stuck [...]

For many people, it’s a no-brainer; if you want to blog, you need to go to Blogger. Founded by Pyra in 1999, Blogger was one of the earliest blog platforms; a combination of ease of use, no-fees with an ad-supported business model, and word of mouth made it an automatic choice. Google bought it over [...]

If you want to show off to your friends what programs you have in your computer system, you should consider joining Myprogs. If there’s any program that you find interesting and think you should own it too, then it’s Myprogs again where you can browse around and find out what other geeks use to make [...]

Is it possible to have a blog and have no idea on what Technorati is? I doubt it. Technorati allows you, in short, to see what others are saying about your blog, who they are, where they link to you and what they think. It shows a quick brief of what people on the net [...]

Prior to its worldwide re-introduction (itList is where it all started, circa 1996) through the underground hit, Del.icio.us, social bookmarking was – and to some, it still is – an item that puzzled many. I know I was lost for quite some time on what it even meant. Now, just a couple of years since [...]

For all the hype that follows YouTube, Flickr and other new Web 2.0 offerings, the biggest Web 2.0 success story has really been weblogs and blogging. A report on Technorati talks about the explosive growth; the number of blogs today is over a 100 times what it’s been 3 years ago, with the size doubling [...]

?? The Million Dollar Homepage, created by Alex Tew, the student who made a million, has now embarked on his latest project. Pixelotto. However, after the success of The Million Dollar Homepage, many have been quick to heavily criticize Tew’s latest venture, including TechCrunch, who have called the idea ‘stupid’. I wouldn’t go for that, [...]

?? If you share your??photos on Flickr, then perhaps you have come across a few photos that you like so much that you wish to set them as your mobile phone wallpaper? There is an Ajax based service that allows you to do just that. All you have to do is submit your query in [...]

At the ITU telecom world event in HongKong, Microsoft kicked off its connected services sandbox; a way for developers to work with service providers to develop and test new kinds of offerings, fusing Web 2.0 with classical communications services. Given that mobile phones outnumber PC’s, and many people expect that it would be the preferred [...]