Archive for November, 2007

Venture Capital has played such a key role in the wildfire spread of Web 2.0 startups and innovations this last year. As writers we often report on funding for this company or that, but I think we seldom think of what this money goes for, how it is offered or what a big role it [...]

I'm always intrigued by the uses of customized software, such as the custom versions that Particls released back in June, so when we received news that Snarfer was creating their own customized RSS readers, I was raring to check it out.
The new custom Snarfer RSS reader still has all the same features that created converts [...]

We all knew the memo would come.
It’s the last day of November, and Google’s decided it fitting to top its monthly quota of announcements off with an official notice of intent to “apply to bid for wireless spectrum” in the new year.
The collective reaction from the public? Finally.
Yes, the message has been delivered not [...]

Facebook’s gotten some major flack for its controversial Beacon utility. The addition was made to the network some weeks ago, and since then the company has been forced to contend with a barrage of less-than-sparkling reviews from tech critics, frosty feedback from annoyed users having witnessed their product consumption choices writ large upon their [...]

The Web 2.0 blogs are abuzz with a Google Labs experiment that no actual person seems to have gotten their hands on yet: a voting mechanism for Google search results. It's been called Digg-styled while others think it's just a way to personalize results.
I don't think it's either one. I think Google [...]

Wondering what to do with Grandma's special box of Christmas cookie recipes you only break into once a year? Have a knack for holiday dinner parties (or just any time dinner parties), but don't know what to do with all those cooking notes? Make a TasteBook!
TasteBook is a site dedicated to helping you organize your [...]

Yesterday, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley published a post highlighting the news of Google’s feature enhancements and additions to the company’s Maps utility. And he proposed a question: “Is Google Earth on borrowed time?”
Now, I’m sure some of you are thinking that such a query doesn’t hold much ground. That Google Earth is hardly [...]

You know, you really want to root for the underdog. You think, okay, Google’s basking in its record profits and empirical glory, so you’ll take a little time to cheer it’s Sunnyvale-based foe, Yahoo!, regardless of whether it’s really got anything in its arsenal to rejoice over.
But it’s getting so effin’ hard to throw a [...]

Up until this point Google Gadgets, the widgets or small applications that run in Google Desktop, were only available for versions of the Windows operating system. Although Mac OS X user have the Dashboard feature complete with a wide variety of downloadable widgets, Google's directory of more than 27,000 gadgets dwarfs the seemingly sparse collection [...]