Archive for April, 2007

Jabbits.com is an interactive Q & A startup site similar to Yahoo! Answers with a video twist. The site is aimed at the video and community based search engine segments of Web 2.0. Essentially, Jabbits is a consumer research tool that allows users to upload video questions from web-cams, mobile phones or camcorders that will provoke video [...]

In the wake of the most devastating and violent events at Virginia Tech, people worldwide seem to be restless and even grasping for how to feel and react. Obviously no one is battling with this event more so than the parents and siblings of the victims. I truly and personally am sorry for this unfathomable [...]

Votigo is a new contest site that lets people be the judge of, well the judge of anything really. Votigo simply lets anyone from business to Aunt Bernice start their own video or photo contest. Users can create a contest from anything they are either involved or interested in and there are some pricey prizes to [...]

Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, and Jimmy Wales has operated the multilingual virtual encyclopedia for??6 years without the first ad. If you think about this for a minute the significance of operating one of the world’s most popular web sites without a scrap of adverting for [...]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is calling the hands of Internet number pushers in regard to the validity and measurement of user behavior. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see a watchdog set on one of my pet peeves. So many numbers abound across Web 2.0, but most significantly to me these [...]

As Dr. Marsha Fieldstone from Sleepless in Seattle said, “You can tell a lot from a person’s voice,” and that is the draw of mySay. mySay is like twitter but with voice messages instead of text. What makes this fun is that you can tell far more from hearing someone’s message than you can just [...]

Having had dominated Web video for…a long time, Adobe’s Flash is justifiably the standard when it comes to displaying clips of films, television shows, podcasts, etc. The company has built a vast client base around the platform, and thus regularly attains great amounts of feedback and suggestions, which it internalizes to help enhance the product. [...]

Digg held a party Thursday evening, and we weren’t invited. That’s okay, we’re sure the invitation just got lost in the mail. Maybe we should’ve double-checked our spam folders. They may have been “accidentally” sidetracked onto a route reserved for outcasts and unwanteds. Yikes. Anyhow, it’s cool, no hard feelings. We’ll still wave to Rose [...]

A human rights group is suing Yahoo Inc. on the grounds that the company assisted China's communist government with torture and dropping dime on dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA seeks unspecific damages and Yahoo's participation in securing the release of the dissidents. Just after I complimented them on being more internationally educated and more [...]