Archive for March, 2007

I accepted an invitation to test a website called Grupl.com. Grupl professes to be the "Digg killer" in a forum post, while acknowledging that they may be labeled as just a clone. I joined the community to evaluate at least how good a clone they might be, and really found the site to be quite [...]

Yahoo! made a rather bold decision this week. The company chose to remove all storage limits from its web-based email client. The immediate consensus is that people like the move to limitless very much. A few years ago, unlimited storage may have gotten two thumbs up from Yahoo!’s fellowship, but it wouldn’t have received the response [...]

I don't know why we rather rarely speak of various RSS feed readers. Are we all totally satisfied with our reading experience? Well, I use Snarfer for my daily reading of news and other blogs and I can't think of a reason to move to another reader now. But there is one situation we should [...]

Research by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that an “advertising surge in 2006” on the Web in the UK pushed the net sum spent for ad space past that of national newspapers as a whole, reports the BBC. Online placements made up 12.4% of the United Kingdom’s total market. In total, advertisers purchased [...]

European Internet start-up Webjam raises $2 million in first-round funding. Webjam, a London startup founded by Yahoo! veterans, has just received their first round funding of about $2 million for further product development. We received the press release from Webjam Ltd. announcing this latest news about the versatile online community. Webjam has been in Beta testing [...]

Attempts have been made before. Politicians trying to connect with younger generations. They dress down. They remove neckties for college crowds. They don threads of their alma maters at outdoor events. Some have even gone wind surfing and have done some light all-terrain biking to show their cool sides. And there are quite a few [...]

“YouTube Mobile” has been in the labs for what seems like a century, but we can expect Google remove the veil soon. The mobile annex of the video sharing site will escape from the confines of its lair to greet the public by May for European viewers and June for Americans. The wrap would be [...]

A new community was launched recently that allows users to rate and review anyone they know. SoWeSay is a networking tool approaching community from a different perspective and where users can obtain feedback through "SayWhat", a method for polling other users on topical issues. According to a PRWeb press release, SoWeSay is a unique community for fostering [...]

The gathering was small change compared to Bulgaria’s complete range of torrenters. (That’s a guestimate, by the way.) Hundreds of people swarmed into Sophia, the nation’s capital on March 15th to protest the “forced closure of some of Bulgaria’s most loved BitTorrent trackers.” The protest of the block is understandable. The cutting off of torrents [...]