Archive for January, 2008

UnLtd World is a new beta that I was invited to test today. This charity based social network has a vision to be a platform for social entrepreneurs and a base for socially minded people to interact. My first impression of the site (outside the slick design) was skeptical I must say. My vision [...]

For a long time bookseller Borders has been saddled with an affiliation to Amazon. Amazon has run its web site, leaving Borders to run its offline stores. This year Borders has been given back control of its web site by Amazon, and is in the process of developing a new site, currently in [...]

The social music and online radio site known as Jango has proved to be quite the popular newcomer, having announced today that the free service has more than 1 million listeners who have created a total of more than 3 million custom Internet radio stations.
Pretty impressive news for a service which only publicly launched just [...]

Last month Leslie asked if 2008 would be the year of Open Source, and I commented that most successful Open Source applications ended up bankrolled and under the control of one of the major industry players. Sun just rolled one more Open Source app under it's gigantic umbrella, this time purchasing MySQL AB for [...]

Odds are, if you are on Facebook, you've played at least part of a game of Scrabulous, a virtual duplicate of the popular board game Scrabble® that currently resides on a list of the top 10 applications installed on Facebook.
I've played several games, most with my Profy colleage Leslie Poston, but from the first moment [...]

The original intent of the Apple TV set-top box was to make it easier for anyone to transfer media files from their PC to their television, which is an idea that seems to have been somewhat accepted by consumers although the interface still presents some problems to users.
Now, to make it even easier to [...]

Remember when Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors on the cheap? Bootstrapping a Web 2.0 start-up is the name of the game, but one of the problems with this mentality s that apps aren't built to scale out of the box. Services like Amazon's EC2 can help with scaling your hardware needs, but you still have to [...]

Our politics and social networking series continues with a focus on the tech savvy candidates who have decided to host their own social network or work within an existing social network to communicate with their supporters. Perhaps the most well known of these is Barack Obama with his own network, but even unexpected candidates [...]

DEMOFall 07 introduced us to some fascinating and potentially industry changing startups and technology. One of my favorites was MyQuire , a very effective but simplified project management tool I reviewed in September. MyQuire has been chugging right along since then and has just released their latest upgrade derived from user feedback. I [...]