Archive for January, 2008

We have already covered the new European web 2.0 conference Plugg on Profy. I would like to remind you that Plugg is a conference that is intended to show the European perspective on web 2.0. The first edition of the event will take place in Brussels on March, 19. It is also important to mention [...]

Twitter. Pownce, Jaiku. Cromple. When Twitter exploded onto the scene, introducing the concept of easy, social micro blogging, it caught on like wildfire. Since then many competitors have emerged with varying degrees of success. MessageDance (currently in private beta) is the latest in a long line of apps that think they can do it better. [...]

It wasn't enough to just go along with the useless MySpace “agreement,” New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo joined forces with State Sen. Joseph Bruno and State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver in announcing the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (E-Stop… isn't that CUTE?), which is a new bill that promises to prevent [...]

To increase the footprint of Google's AdWords service from online advertising to print advertising, the search engine giant is relying on a new implementation of barcode technology. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Google is placing high expectations on small, square barcodes (as seen in the image at left) to be strategically placed at the [...]

It seems like every other week there's a new headline: Digg Killer, Google Killer, Facebook Killer. This time, however, it's an old dog learning a new trick, with Slashdot adding a sideshow to throw its hat into the ring with Digg, Fark, and the rest with their launch of Idle, a non-tech version of the [...]

For those of you who have not yet heard of Qtrax, it is an upcoming peer-to-peer (P2P) music service, aiming to offer free high-quality music from major labels in exchange for being served advertising while utilizing the Qtrax website and service. Think of the free model in use at SpiralFrog for an idea. In fact, [...]

Are you reading The Drama 2.0 Show? If not, you should be. One of the hard parts of blogging about Web 2.0 is trying to maintain a balanced view of the latest and greatest in web technology as a whole. Note that I don't say each news item or review, because there will always be [...]

FaceBook has raised the bar for social networks once again in its latest move: allowing FaceBook applications on regular web sites. This mans that FaceBook will be acting as a king of application host, something the no one else is doing right now. The FaceBooks applications (apps) will be served by a JavaScript client library. [...]

How would you like a project planner that helps you plan for the bumps in the road? LiquidPlanner, releasing today at DEMO '08 , claims to be just that. They are calling themselves an “on-demand project management solution”. They have taken traditional project management software and added what they claim is a patent pending probability [...]