Archive for March, 2007

There are few places that you travel to in your online journeys that you admire for the template as much as you do the content. GigaNet’s very recently updated NewTeeVee is one of those destinations. One of the best-looking IPTV news sites on the Web today, it’s constructed in a manner that you can truly [...]

News today from Time Inc. notes the passing of yet another icon of print media. A story from Reuters via Yahoo! News announced Life magazine will no longer grace newsstands with its photography. We talk a good deal about traditional media coming to Web 2.0, and it is usually really good news for those of [...]

VOIP is still a second-class citizen in the world of telephony, but it continues to take the front page of tech journals and blogs. Dozens upon dozens of articles having something or other to do with Voice Over Internet Protocol have surfaced in newspapers in the months and years past as well. The latest words to [...]

Where are they now? It is about time we looked at some of Web 2.0 startups to see what kind of progress they have made since we last reported, so here are a few favorites and not so favorite Web 2.0 Startups we have reviewed. I submit this first group of re-visitations for our readers [...]

A few weeks ago, I started noticing a trend in some of the latest community site releases from some heavy hitters. iVillage was rolling out a new community feature. Even the usually hyper-paranoid-about-image Disney was launching a user-created content site. There definitely seems to be a trend with companies to attracting women, particularly mothers, to [...]

Zooped.com is another social community along the lines (heck more like a copy of) MySpace. The best things I can say about the site are that it is colorful, neat and allows users a good deal of flexibility for using the site. Music, video, dating (well maybe), games, news (2 days old) and even a [...]

When I first read the press release for the creation of AutismTown, I was thrilled. While there have been some niche community sites created, none of them have been very high profile, nor have they been created by the organizations already providing support to those niche communities. AutismTown is a joint creation of Autism Speaks, [...]

I wrote an article a short time back about hakia, a semantic based search engine that I found fascinating. The reason I found it so fascinating is because I have a normative mind set. This is a function of a human mind trained to accept empirical evidence, but compelled more by the feeling or nature [...]

I caught a WiredNews story by Kim Zetter about some recent resignations at Wikimedia, the 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects. According to the article two top foundation employees resigned citing disagreements with the governing board of the foundation. Danny Wool has been the grants coordinator at the foundation since 2005 [...]