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Last month I was completely underwhelmed by Pownce. If you've been under a Social Networking rock over the last little while, Pownce is a Twitter-like service which updates your social network about what you're doing, new links, new videos, etc. The appeal of Pownce WASN'T the service itself - it was the invite process. Everyone wanted to get an invite, then dangle it over their friends who, in turn, did the same to their friends. While the viral effect on [...]

Though I was apprehensive about the all hoopla around Plaxo over the past few weeks, I must admit the unveiling Monday of the new Plaxo 3.0 was stunning and exciting… at first.
I started using Plaxo, oh, 2004? Earlier? Well, a VERY long time. I liked it because it gave me a very nice little interface between my Outlook contacts and an online interface to access those contacts. I can't tell you how many times I was saved when looking up [...]

With the ongoing success and proliferation of Facebook and other SOCIAL NETWORKING sites, it's now time to take a look at THE NEXT STAGE of this phenomena of Social Networking. It really all began with services such as LinkedIn and MySpace where people created “walled gardens” of their associates or friends. This idea later opened to online “Web 2.0″ services such as del.icio.us, Digg, Flickr, MyBlogLog and a flood of other services wanting to “spread the word” through networking. [...]

Announcement: Steve Jobs has announced at the 2007 Macworld conference in San Francisco a new breakthrough device from Apple Inc. - the iPhone. This sleek new device is a Widescreen iPod, GSM Phone as well as an Internet device running the FULL OS X operating system and a 2 megapixal camera.
Rarely is there a technology announcement which truly catches the world attention. The closest thing in recent years was the announcement of the Apple iPod having video capabilities in October [...]

Announcement: Social bookmarking company Raw Sugar closes its doors.
The last day in December was a sad day in the Web 2.0 world. Ofer Ben-Shachar’s ambitious project - Raw Sugar - closed down its operation.
If you never had the opportunity to try it (it still is in operation as of this posting), Raw Sugar attempted to be a much more potent form of del.icio.us by not only providing the ability to bookmark and share sites, but to also categorize those bookmarks [...]

Review: Widgetbox - depository and interface for those producing web widgets and for those who are wishing to easily place web widgets on their blog or website.
The first time I heard about a “widget” was back in university when studying econimics. The supply and demand of a generic company producing a generic product called “widgets”. In the past couple of years, this “generic product” has moved to the computer realm with Apple leading the way with the ability to produce [...]

Review: Megite RSS aggregator service. The ability to read ALL your feeds on one website everyday.
I find explaining RSS and feeds to a newbie is as confusing and frustrating as explaining what the Internet was to everyone back in 1994. What is it? How does it work? How is it different than a webpage (or back then, using CompuServe?). One of the causes of this confusion is how people read RSS feeds. Some use their browsers (Safari, Firefox and the [...]

End Of Service Announcement: Free SkypeOut calls to US and Canadian phones ends December 31, 2006.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Skype, the world leader in online telephony is about to close the door on their VERY popular promotion - Free SkypeOut calls in North America. So, if you’ve been putting off making those holiday greeting calls or best of the New Year calls to friends, family and colleagues, you better start budgeting your time over the [...]

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Discussion of comparisons between online video services Mojiti and Viddler.
Background
Mojiti and Viddler are two services which provide the ability to take videos which are online to the next level of interactively - the ability to annotate or add words directly to the video at specific time points during the feature.  Each has a different approach which, in turn, makes them useful in different areas.
Mojiti, which I recently introduced on Profy, takes the use of annotation for the purposes of translation [...]