Archive for March, 2007

Web TV using your house's power circuit, Devolo raises the bar in connectivity solutions.   Web 2.0 has been the most sensational networking, innovation and communication venue of the last year or two. When we think of technology and Web 2.0 we generally focus on Web companies, startups, widgets or user empowered communities. There is another [...]

Newcomer Kincafe.comis a new social network for families, allowing relatives to share pictures, genealogy, scrapbooks, photos, and blogs. Using a family tree structure, Kincafe.com allows users to change settings for privacy on each of the content features. Kincafe.com is more than a genealogy site; it lets you track contact information, birthdays and anniversaries, share stories, [...]

If I write an article about "my" RSS aggregator, then in fairness I should write about a new one. Oddly enough a new one was just released called Fresh Reader, a productivity booster from sidefeed.   Fresh Reader is a Web based, server type RSS feed reader that runs exceptionally fast. Fresh Reader is designed for [...]

With the explosion in social networking comes a risk. The more you put out there online about yourself, the more potential there is for risk to your privacy and personal reputation. From blog comments to revenge ratings to angry retaliatory comments, almost anything can end up visible in a Google search. Employers are already using [...]

There are a great many social networks in existence today. Too many. It?s an industry inside an industry, and it?s starting to get stretched thin. By now you?ve probably found your favorite among the choices. If you?re a die-hard music fan, you?ve probably skipped over MySpace for a more specialized circle, one with plenty of [...]

Fuelmyblog.com has just been launched, and promises to be a popular online blogger gathering place. Kevin Dixie, a British blogger based in London and La Rochelle, France created the site to allow bloggers to publicize their blogs for free. Fuelmyblog also lets users recommend blogs to their friends and networks by rating each entry with votes. The [...]

Cisco agrees to give WebEx several suitcases of crisp, clean, stackable Benjamins and suddenly yesterday’s news (figuratively speaking) of Microsoft’s purchase of Tellme for $800,000,000 starts to look insignificant. Not that we’d mind wading in a pool of that kind of green. Just, you know, big news was soon followed with much bigger news. An amusing [...]

Alien News Vacuum Revealed! Snarfer – Changing to Suit Humans.   We review a great number of communities, startups, gadgets and other technology related to Web 2.0, but I have never really thought of reviewing something that I use to find some of this stuff. Snarfer is a friendly RSS manager that sits down there in my system [...]

Now I have found the perfect Web site! This is so Web 2.0 it may just change the way we think about our attics, garages and storage spaces forever. Junkdepot has created the eBay for die hard pack rats (or their spouses). We ran across this site and just had to announce this new venue [...]