Archive for April, 2008

New social media service Strutta gives new meaning to the term “bragging rights”, as applied to home video. If you constantly brag that you are the best at handstands in three counties, Strutta gives you a place to prove it. If you have an obnoxious friend or coworker who won't shut up about how great [...]

By now, most of us have heard about the global warming crisis that is endangering the planet. Al Gore spoke on the topic in the phenomenally popular documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and you can even find several sites across the web (even a blog) out to educate the world about the issue and how it [...]

Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by. My personal blog is firmly in the first [...]

New on the music scene in social media is Route Note, a service designed to enable musicians to use the social web to manage their music library. Designed with the indie artist in mind, Route Note puts the strength of contract negotiation and marketing into an easy web based package. Route Note entered its public [...]

Rumors started circulating earlier in the week, but today, Microsoft confirmed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that it purchased Seattle-based Farecast at a rumored purchase price of over $75 million USD. Farecast has also confirmed the sale on their blog. Farecast is a nifty little application that attempts to help you judge when the best time [...]

It may be time for Popular Mechanics to be declared dead. The 468 individuals who Digged the article should hang it up as well. There are really 468 people out there who think that How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It is actually news? The concept of a semantic web was [...]

The big announcement from Sun Microsystems this week is the background on its new Internet hosting platform project, dubbed Project Caroline. The project is a research and development vehicle that will potentially provide the hosting for various SaaS providers. Sun was in the news earlier this year with its acquisition of Open Source server application [...]

Anyone who waded into the comment section of my DimDim review noted a mini-debate began about my feelings about the service. Mainly, why I felt that its current lack of support for Mac and Linux users was a deal-breaker. Web 2.0 has been all about people and web apps. Conversation and creating accessible apps for [...]

If nothing else, the social web has made it easier than ever before to change how you work. For businesses and people seeking a more personal work flow, they can find it via Web 2.0 tools and other unique ideas born out of the Internet melting pot. From Google Docs, online document sharing and virtual [...]