Archive for February, 2007

Yesterday we received an invitation to revisit the social network for geeks Shuzak.com. We did a review of the site earlier when it was running on a sub-optimized server, and the resultant problem was a 404 error. I really wanted to see what the community was like and was pleasantly surprised to find the site's [...]

Rumors are floating around that Amazon may have invested approximately $1 million in Web 2.0 site Shelfari , scooping the site from other the noses of venture capital firms who were interested. If the rumors are true, this is Amazon 's first real dip of it's monstrous toes into the social shopping area. The Seattle-based [...]

I’ve been waiting for the beta launch of Jubii with great anticipation. If you are at all like me, you have at least one email account, several IM accounts, your cell phone and/or Blackberry next to you at all times, and feel like you are using up every byte of available RAM keeping all the [...]

There are many ways to shop online. Thousands of specialty stores hawk all types of goods and services. There we see Amazon as king. Then there are smaller operations, like TigerDirect, Newegg, Musicians Friend. The long tail is at the bottom. It’s where mom-and-pop shops are vying for the attention that either don’t want to [...]

American Idol fans will now be able to search the hakia American Idol GalleryTM. Fans of the popular American Idol talent show can simply type in "American Idol" to see hakia's innovative GalleryTM results displayed. In a post a few days ago we tested hakia.com to test this newly released aspect of hakia. To be [...]

Feelix Growing is exploring sensory robots! BBC – February 23, 2007 – Making robots that interact with humans emotionally is the objective of a British led European scientific project. Feelix Growing is a research project that involves six countries and 25 robot scientists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists. Coordinator Dr. Lola Canamero says the aim of [...]

Imagine a site which pooled everything from eBay, uBid, Yahoo! Auctions, and others into a single feed. Now imagine that all products have been replaced with websites – e-businesses, forums, single-page domains, etc. Throw in a few shadow effects on some big buttons and you’ve got yourself BizMP. The problem: the site doesn’t seem to [...]

An Egyptian court sentenced a blogger to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president. The trial of Abdel Kareem Soliman is the first time a blogger has been prosecuted in Egypt. Soliman used his blog to criticize Egypt's top Islamic institution al-Azhar, and the blogger also called President Hosni Mubarak a dictator. [...]

If there is one thing that people like to talk over and about, it’s food. That’s the premise behind the new Web 2.0 foodie site GroupRecipes. Blending a searchable recipe database with mini restaurant reviews and an online community, GroupRecipes strives to give its users a total food experience, from cooking to dining out to [...]