Posts Tagged with ‘press-release’

News of one of my favorite Web 2.0 programs, One Laptop Per Child, and its upcoming roll-out of 2500 computers for some of the world's poorest kids. The press release announced that the project is about to distribute the first installment of the neat little PC's to eight nations this month. This installment is an [...]

We recently reviewed a site called WeWin.com where users are rewarded for sharing and viewing video. We really like the site, with a few reservations, as the incentive based community is innovative and entertaining. In a press release by Market Wire - February 5, WeWin and Mondera announced a campaign that would award $5000 in gift certificates [...]

Vidavee.com announced the release of Graffiti, an innovative technology that allows users to communicate via Internet video (Hmm!). The service allows users to comment, add content to or brand video in seconds. All the user has to do is paste the URL of a video into Graffiti and then add text bubbles, animations, captions, external [...]

I bet you never suspected that this January 27th was Thomas Crapper Day! I mean here we have been so focused on the CES, DEMO 07 and other events that we nearly missed "Crapper" Day! According to a press release by Roto-Rooter via Yahoo! News, the average person spends 11,862 hours in the bathroom, or 1 [...]

In an article by Michel Marriot I learned of an innovative and rather fantastic new toy that incorporates the most advanced technology. A robotics company called WowWee plans to release a mass produced functional ornithopter (a device that flies like a bird). The device is a radio controlled toy that mechanically flaps its Mylar wings and flies [...]

PRWEB - February 5, Yesterday a new incentive based video sharing site WeWin.com announced a giant leap in membership and stored video content. Since their Beta launch in November of last year, the new site has reached the 150,000 member milestone. According to the release, WeWin is on track to compete with MySpace and YouTube.
Early successes [...]

Today, Nexo Systems, Inc. launched a beta version of a revolutionary web community. According to a press release by PRNewswire, the company is the first web community to bring ease of use, security, personalization, and communication together for users to express themselves and manage a variety of online interfaces. Nexo is one of the innovations [...]

My-Currency.com, showcased at DEMO 07, to launch today!
My-Currency.com is a new web site designed to utilize prediction markets and social applications to help professionals build and maintain reputation. If you are not sure what that means, you are not alone! A press release from Market Wire on January 25th pointed out that the new [...]

I Predict News Junkies And Plenty Of Them! 
U.S. teachers are utilizing Internet news more than any other source in presenting news to their students. Fifty seven percent of teachers use Internet based news. A study based on news use in the classroom surveyed 1,262 teachers in grades 5-12 in the fall of 2006. The study was released [...]