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Earlier I told you about Second Life, the next big thing in online networking and communication. Meanwhile I had a chance to further check it out and to get some background of the growing pains of this hype.
The word ‘hype’ always had a negative sound, but I can assure you that Second Life will not give you a negative experience provided you have some patience to learn the tricks to ‘live’ your second life and if you are prepared to [...]

If you are a marketing specialist you’ll find lots and lots of web 2.0 tools which you can use in your business. There are options available to help you in finding information about your customers and target group, establishing connections with useful people, managing your contacts and projects online and in other activities. In the Web 2.0 era it would not be wise not to benefit from at least some of the tools. Which ones are a ‘must’ and add [...]

If you are a recruiter you’ll find lots and lots of web 2.0 tools you can use. There are various tools intended to help you in your hunting for candidates, communicating with your customers, evaluating fit between the prospective candidates and your customer, establishing connections with useful people and managing your contacts. In the Web 2.0 era it would not be wise not to benefit from at least some of the tools. But which ones are a ‘must’ and add [...]

 
Do you know that feeling… searching the internet for hours only to find your information in bits and pieces at various locations? Most people google and click on the answers Google gives you on their first page. But maybe you don’t want to search for answers on a normal site, maybe your answer is hidden within video-content or on a blog that isn’t very well indexed.
For business users there now is a very useful tool named Netvibes and it is [...]

 
Plaxo has been around for years now. It was one of the first web 2.0 sites where you adopted an online service (in this case manage your contacts) efficiently.
It is so simple that there isn’t really much to tell about it. What they do is that they offer you an online tool to upload and download your contacts. That in itself doesn’t offer any new added value, the thing is that when you use it, it connects to the Plaxo [...]

 
First, for all of you that don’t know Grouper.com yet; it is a files and video sharing site much like Mydonkey was on which you can also upload your videos and manage your friends network in the same way Youtube.com does. A few months ago Sony bought it for a modest $65 million and now the Sony plans are becoming clear.
The functionality of Grouper has become enormous and what’s more it is presented in a very user-friendly way, simple and [...]

Everyone is using Skype these days. Sure it is good and relatively cheap to use, but the drawback is that you still have to pay to call someone on a normal landline.
The fact of the matter is that you don???t have to. You can call anyone with a normal phone for free using Voipbuster! And yes, you don???t have to get connected to the internet to receive phone calls from someone using Voipbuster.
So how do you use it?
You use it [...]

 
Hyves has been around for a few years now and has grown to the most successful Web 2.0 social networking portal in the Netherlands. In every aspect you can compare it to Myspace.com; it has roughly the same user interface, the same contact management system and you can find people with the same interests (same interest groups are called ‘Hyves’ here) and publish & pimp your blog. If you go there you will notice that it is focused on the [...]

What a hit it is! Youtube.com created an instant success and a whole new opportunity in profiling. You are used to reading about my web 2.0 business networking tests so at first you might be a bit astonished by my assessment that it is also a web 2.0 networking and business tool. That is because you know Youtube as a provider of short web videos, and you are right, it is but it can do a lot more for your [...]