Archive for July, 2007

Yesterday, Twango announced that Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has acquired its media-sharing service. With this acquisition, Nokia will be able to offer its customers an easy way to share multimedia content on their desktop PCs and mobile phones. "Nokia's unique vision for social media aligns perfectly with Twango," said Twango co-founder, Jim [...]

Are you one of the million or so iPhone owners out there? Are you consistently feeling a little short on storage? If so, Box.net has a snazzy solution that’ll work quite phenomenally through the device’s Safari Internet browser. First, one very big particular that you might like to know about: If you’ve ever used Box.net [...]

Following search engine Ask’s announcement last week of a feature to be introduced later this year that will allow users to maintain a masked existence on the site, bigger wigs in the industry are now paying greater heed to privacy concerns and stepping out with their own plans on how they themselves intend to keep [...]

In the sea of online video services, it gets to the point where you start thinking that one might be much the same as the other. The basic content is the same, just the way it's served and who's providing the content might alter from one service to another. When it comes to National Banana, [...]

Everyone's been abuzz about Dave Winer and his take on Google and Feedburner. According to Winer, this may CRIPPLE blogging, people! Google may tie Feedburner to Google Reader and if you don't use Feedburner, your blog may end up NOT WORKING in Google Reader. There are days I wish I had the power Dave Winer [...]

Are you unsatisfied with the results that a Google search turns up? Are too many of the links irrelevant or not at all useful? Well, if so, there is a new social search engine aiming to provide you with a new way to search. Sure there are Mahalo and Aftervote, but now there is iRazoo, [...]

Tired of all the social networking news circulating the blogosphere? You’re not alone. There are lots of folks who can’t take the headlines about Facebook, MySpace and all the rest. But the venture capitalist crowd feels the complete opposite. Yes, they’re still very bullish, apparently. Very recently word filtered around that Hi5, a very popular [...]

Spigit is a new social community and game that aims to provide a network of support for start-ups and their founders. It is being marketed as a "virtual game" that can simulate the real-life process of starting and building a startup service on the web. According to the site, the community "provides professionals the ability [...]

CoReap is a new service that combines social bookmarking, social searching and a social network. It allows users to manage their bookmarks and their network directly from the sidebar of the browser for complete ease of use. What is innovative about CoReap is the way that it seamlessly integrates with existing search platforms such as [...]