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 they are at, well, anything - put it on video and use Strutta to prove them wrong (or right).
Strutta is a fun web site with [...]

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 takes each of us individually to commit to changing our lifestyles to make a difference. The problem there, though, is that most people fear change [...]

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 segment, but I'd probably put myself in the last category to an extent in my "work" writing. I started out as a journalism major, but couldn't [...]

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 beta phase this week.
The focus Route Note puts on the musician is its ace in the hole. Navigating the landscape of music distribution and [...]

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 is to buy your airline tickets. They are also beta testing a version that does the same for hotel rooms. By entering your travel [...]

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 introduced years ago. References to it can be found as far back as 2000, with a more formal definition appearing in a column on O'Reily by [...]

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 MySql, a possible prelude to this announcement.
Sun plans to reveal the details of Project Caroline and several other projects at its Sun Labs Open [...]

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 sharing and conversing and socializing. so why is it important that everything be non-platform specific?
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claims that, if you back out purchases [...]

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 assistants to telecommuting, mobile offices and coworking, there are hundreds of ways to customize your productivity.
Online application sharing and virtual office application use [...]