Archive for May, 2007

It looks like Pentagon further restricts the way military personnel uses the world wide web. Military personnel and civilian employees will not be able to access YouTube, MySpace, Pandora, Photobucket, hi5, metacafe and several other “recreational Internet sites” (I like the term, by the way) when they are using the Department of Defense network. The [...]

Yahoo! just launched two initiatives in an effort to establish their position as a major resource for Web 2.0 environmental leadership. The major component of this initiative has been dubbed Yahoo! Green, an information portal to deal with global warming issues, environmental news, information and help guides for people to live a more environmentally conscious [...]

Does competition drive you to better yourself and get in shape? Then check out introPLAY, where fitness becomes a game. You can create teams to start competitions with other members to see who can do the best in terms of reaching their fitness goals. You get points for various activities that help your fitness and [...]

More Google news here, and yet again the good and the bad. The company is ramping up its advertising business to work more closely with the theme of YouTube. That is, video. The Google subsidiary is placing a shuffle of text ads along the bottom of viewers’ video windows. (If viewer shows enough interest to [...]

Would you like to know how safe the Web is? Statistically speaking, it’s pretty darn clean. That doesn’t mean all is well, however. Far from it, in fact. How do I know this? Google told me. Well, actually, Google told everyone. The search giant spent a few extra clock cycles looking at some of the [...]

The world tends to revolve around one thing: money. And if Web 2.0 is about social interactions and using the Web as a platform, you'd have to expect that money would play more of a part than simply getting venture capital or monetizing your app. While banking may have been a bit slower out of [...]

Want to create some new dishes and improve your cooking skills? Rouxbe provides professional quality videos that show you step-by-step how to cook a variety of different recipes. All of the recipes are from professional chefs, but they focus only on the food and how it?s prepared. If you want some more detail on the [...]

If a crime occurs in a virtual world, is it still illegal? As social networks which utilize virtual worlds become more popular, it's inevitable that some virtual events may occur that violate the laws of the citizens' own real-world countries. Right now, the offline world is still catching up with the online one, so we [...]

Most of the time, we enjoy the fruits Web 2.0 creations indoors. Offices. Dorms. Bedrooms. Even class rooms. Rarely do we do things like consume online audio and video where we can breathe less-than-clean air and commiserate with freshly hatched insects. The folks at NewTeeVee want to change that. Beginning May 24th, Malik and gang [...]