Archive for April, 2007

One of the most innovative and interesting startups from the Web 2.0 Expo is a comprehensive development environment called Bungee Connect from Bungee Labs. This on-demand web development tool allows for the building and deployment of a large number of APIs onto the Internet. The scope of this service is vast, but perhaps the most [...]

On a very slow day I finally found a very interesting story about the lawsuit against Statsaholic by Alexa. Alexa is suing Ron Hornbaker the developer of Statsaholic over the domain name Alexaholic, which was Hornbaker's original domain for the feature filled ranking site. The depth of the story was reported by TechCrunch back in March, [...]

Mailemotion allows you to send videos via email easily, so that you don’t have to type your messages any more, but can record a video of your message and send it to your friends and family. It is simple to use, with 4 steps: load the video, choose who to send it to, include a message, [...]

The modus operandi for Web 2.0 sites to date has been to grow the site big enough to have it snapped up by a bigger fish. Unlike the "Web 1.0" move which was to go public as fast as you could without being purchased, Web 2.0 sites seem to be treading water while waiting for [...]

Google has been on a multi-year tear through the online advertising world, and its moves as of late in the Web application genre have proven no less significant. Gmail continues to grow both in space and in users; its Calendar app is consistently said to be one of the best out there; and Google Docs [...]

One million hours of television and radio programming provided on-demand via the Web. That?s the BBC?s plan. The media colossus intends for an archive which will include many of its new and old recordings to be opened to the public if a trial to selected 20,000 UK-based individuals proves successful. ?Successful? can mean a lot [...]

MySpace is apparently branching out to challenge Digg and Netscape in the News Arena. MySpace News will bring the news to its huge audience with essentially the same user recommendation capabilities as Digg and Netscape, but unlike these sites will scan thousands of web journals and news sites. The new service appears to be aimed [...]

Review Basics is a new feedback gathering platform that allows professionals throughout industry to share ideas and provide reviews to a wide variety of content. Besides providing a universal set of review tools RB offers customized solutions targeted at specific markets and industry sectors. The backbone of the RB is the utilization of Flash and [...]

One of my favorite bloggers was reportedly banned by the Thai government today. Pete Cashmore wrote to his readers that Mashable has been banned because of his blogs reporting on the YouTube ban incident. The ban, if there is one, is not the subject of this post, but the ability of a great blogger/news-person to ride [...]