Archive for May, 2007

I have just been told by one of our readers that we underestimate one current trend in Web 2.0. He mentioned that many people now have their online presence scattered around the web in blogs, photo and video sharing sites, social networks, etc. And so new services are created that are intended to gather all [...]

A few months back I wrote a piece involving online reputation tracking. One of the companies I discovered at the time was ReputationDefender, a company that would monitor your online reputation for a monthly fee, and then help eliminated any invasive or defamatory information, if found, for an additional fee. What happens, however, if the [...]

Veoh continues its steady ascent to the top of online television and video ladder. Today at the Facebook f8 event Veoh announced the Veoh Favorites Player which is an application built on the Facebook Platform. Veoh CEO Dmitry Shapiro and his developers continue to incrementally add one excellent aspect after another in an obvious quest [...]

I've been reading many a blog lately with folks trying to get away from the behemoth that is Google. Reasons are anything from privacy concerns to their increasingly-Microsoft-ish feel. I'm in the opposite camp; I can't imagine getting through a day without Google. Forget Google Docs (I hate them). I've migrated away from my iGoogle [...]

Since Web 2.0 is all about people and content they create I'm sure soon all users will expect to be able to earn money by creating content. Instead of uploading an interesting video to YouTube or other video sharing website and promote it on Digg – thus generating additional traffic to the community (which definitely [...]

The most underutilized aspect of Web 2.0 is education, but students in Singapore are about to get a technical boost as blogs, video conferencing, tablet PC's, podcasts and interactive whiteboards are about to be employed in the classrooms there. A program called FutureSchools@Singapore is rolling out a new initiative to harness emerging technologies with innovative [...]

South Korea is poised to establish a code of Internet ethics to curb the distribution of pornographic and other inappropriate materials there. A bill is being sent to their parliament for approval this year according to Vice Information Minister Yoo Younghwan. The growth of South Korea's Web presence has grown exponentially and essentially without regulation [...]

Attendio is the site for any busy urbanites wanting to be in the know of what’s going on around them without having to spend a lot of time searching for that information. Just type in your interests and Attendio will save them, giving you their relevant and recommended information on upcoming events. You can then get [...]

Let me start this entry off with some perspective: “Diggspose” sucks. It’s terrible. Absolutely terrible. Digg Expose, a mashup of Digg.com and Snap.com’s polarizing code (there are those who love it and those who hate it) created in the wonderfully rich environment that is Adobe Flash and even hosted by Yourminis, is a showcase item [...]