Archive for April, 2008

Returning back home after Web 2.0 Expo, I felt bereft. No longer could I turn quickly to my trusty RAZR, send a Twitter message to @fireball, and find out where people were. It's a silly thing to want, but if you are making plans to go out, it's helpful to have, especially if you are [...]

MySpace Apps Gallery has been in private beta for a while. This week marked its debut into the public eye. MySpace Apps is meant to compete directly with FaceBook, a company that has offered third party applications for quite while. Much like FaceBook's ubiquitous applications, MySpace Apps seems full of silly games and quizzes. In [...]

I have a lot of posting to catch up on after Web 2.0 Expo this week, but I'm not saving the best for last; I'm starting off my catch-up posts with my review of the Blogtropol.us Bloggers Lounge. When I first arrived at Web 2.0 Expo, I was a little bit incensed that bloggers had [...]

Coming fast on the heels of the Yahoo and Google ad pairing is Yahoo's new partnership with CNET. The two companies signed an agreement tying them together via content and ad sales for three years this week. For the next three years Yahoo will be able to sell ad placements on CNET's network, and CNET [...]

Even smart people need to find love. In fact, some might say that smart people need more help, since the stereotype states they spend more time with their minds doing other things than looking for connections. Enter Intelligent People, a new dating service that requires you to pass an IQ test to to be considered [...]

You would have thought that companies involved in selling digital media (especially those with DRM content) would have learned a lesson after the fiasco Google went through when the company decided to close its video marketplace. That was last August, when Google abruptly cut off access to the videos that many customers had rightfully purchased [...]

Now that FaceBook's instant messaging feature is live and I have had a chance to play with it, I must say it is getting a resounding "meh" from me. I was looking forward to a feature that would enable me to talk with my FaceBook contacts without having to resort to one of the intrusive [...]

It's been absolutely insanely busy here at Web 2.0 Expo. It's great getting to meet so many people and showing them the Profy platform, but I'm also a little bit bummed I haven't been able to get around to more booths and attend more sessions. It's like Disneyland here: too much to do in four [...]

Ubuket is the new darling of the music playlist creation set. Entering the ring with recent darlings MuxTape and Grooveshark, among others, Ubuket gives you a way to pull music from a variety of places online and on your computer and make playlists. You can even grab music from video sites like YouTube. Ubuket is [...]