Archive for January, 2008

Social networking isn't confined to the fully abled community anymore – it has stretched into the communities of the differently abled as well. The hearing impaired and Deaf communities, especially, are getting their own social networks online. The most recent of these is the tween and kid oriented network Hearing Exchange Kids. Started by hearing [...]

Everyone on Twitter today has been holding their collective breath waiting for 1 PM PST, when Duncan Riley's post at TechCrunch would go live. The big news? Facebook, Google, and Plaxo joined the Data Portability Workgroup. I suppose, for me at least, this huge news was actually a let-down. Anyone who followed last week's PR [...]

Microsoft just announced that they will try to acquire Fast Search & Transfer, which is a Norwegian enterprise search solution. The deal is reportedly in excess of $1 billion and is dependent on FS&T shareholder approval. The big three in search, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been locked in this search battle for some time [...]

For years and years there have been those who believe (myself included) that the music industry is no longer developing quality music that people actually want to hear, but rather relying on revenue-generating formulas and focusing solely on financial details with no regards to the quality of the music being created. It is more about [...]

Social Networking and Web 2.0 are changing the face of politics. This year you no longer have to rely on outdated news outlets or slow newspapers, nor do you need to depend on television news channels with an obvious party bias. You can get all of your candidate information delivered to you 24-7 via the [...]

Wikia Search , the new user-generated search engine from the Wikimedia Foundation, launched today to much fanfare. Still in alpha, Wikipedia founder and CEO Jimmy Wales admits that as an alpha release, it still lacks user data, leading to poor results, but he expects the search to improve over the coming weeks. According to Wales, [...]

Roll A Name is a new social networking site currently in beta testing. The idea is that users can benefit by gaining visibility and using “shameless” self promotion. As with any other run-of-the-mill networking site, Roll A Name members can create profiles, add friends, set preferences and so on. According to the site, users can [...]

Have you always wondered how to tell someone to get out of your cube… in Chinese? Google announced the release of a translation bot that works with Google Talk and its mobile and Blackberry IM modules. You are just a simple chat message away from seeming fluent in 23 languages. Up until now I've gone [...]

Iloggo claims to be an Internet desktop that anyone can use to navigate their favorite sites and the sites that others visit using a grid containing logos and graphics. After spending some time trying it out, I'd have to say I'm underwhelmed. It doesn't seem to do anything other social bookmarking sites don't already do, [...]