Author Archive

The Jamendo homepage bravely states ‘Jamendo – Open Your Ears’. Unfortunately, there’s no jazzy music on the homepage for me to bop to, so the whole thing seemed flawed from the start. Thankfully, after testing the service myself, I found that it’s a case of not judging a book by its cover, or in this [...]

If you’re the owner of a Web 2.0 just like Profy.com or my own Tech.co.nr, then you’ll know that even if you have the best content out there, it’s no good if people don’t read it. I’m just going to give you the top few tips I use to drive people to my blog. There’s [...]

ReminderFeed is a very interesting application based around the idea of notifying your feed-reader at a certain time of a certain event. You can subscribe with any reader out there, but ReminderFeed conveniently adds a few chicklets in the left hand sidebar for you anyway! ‘MSN’, ‘Bloglines’, ‘Yahoo’, ‘Newsgator’ and ‘Google’ mean that if you [...]

Zapr.net‘s homepage looks rather advertising, but unlike all of the other big companies offering you fantastic free hosting offers that never come real, if you’re just looking for a place to store and share your pictures, videos or documents, Zapr is for you. The Zapr.net homepage promises to let you ‘Share stuff with your friends. [...]

LuLu.com, aside from meaning ‘ReadRead.com’ in French is a great book self-publishing service which just so happens to be free. You write a book, upload it to LuLu and people can buy it straight away. LuLu does all of the printing, meaning that you just have to set a price. LuLu deduct a percentage of [...]

The Flickr Logo Maker from NOSV is nothing more than a simple online tool that lets you create your very own Flickr style logo. Flickr’s simple, yet revolutionary logo changed the face of the internet forever back when it was first released. The simplicity, the style and the elegance combined together in one snazzy package. [...]

YouTube has given itself a rather sleek, new re-design in the past few days. A new logo, new buttons, fonts and colouring, frequent YouTube users are having to adapt to the new, re-vamped design. The ‘channels’ section has gone green, the ‘groups’ section taking a more bright orange. The social filters no longer show up [...]

ProjectPipe.com is a brilliant Web 2.0 solution that helps teams of people to easily collaborate, reduce the risk of a late deadline or delivery risk by simplifying management. ProjectPipe has many great and interesting features including RSS, Tagging, the ability to manage any project data as an outline, and some really top-notch Microsoft Project/Excel integration. [...]

Bla.st is a new form of advertising created only recently by a team of leading experts. Already used by some of the biggest names around. Take Google, Digg, Skype, Mozilla, Flock and 9rules as some great examples. Bla.st lets you upload your own ‘cards’ for free. What are cards? Well, each card comes in a [...]