Posts Tagged with ‘web-site’

hakia Gets - American Idol and Ask.com

Phil Butler

American Idol fans will now be able to search the hakia American Idol GalleryTM. Fans of the popular American Idol talent show can simply type in "American Idol" to see hakia's innovative GalleryTM results displayed.
In a post a few days ago we tested hakia.com to test this newly released aspect of hakia. To be frank, we loved it! It looks like hakia is pulling out all the stops in an effort to be the first-est and best-est of 2007's [...]

Woodpecker Search 2.0

Phil Butler

Robot ornithologists search for rare bird! Birdwatchers have a new high-tech weapon in their arsenal, an automated birdwatcher-robot. According to the press release, the new device has been placed in a US wildlife reserve in Arkansas to catch a fleeting glimpse of the elusive Ivory Billed Woodpecker (not to be confuse with its cousin Woody). This woodpecker was once thought to be extinct, but sightings in 2004 have renewed hope that the bird still exists. The observation robot uses two [...]

hakia Galleries - Perhaps the Best Yet

Phil Butler

Hakia, the Internet's new meaning based search engine announced the development of hakia GalleriesTM, a new unique feature of the search engine. The galleries categorize search results to short queries by delivering 10 relevant results for just one short query. These categories are meaning based aspects of the topic searched for.
hakia GalleriesTM is now available at hakia.com for covering a wide range of topics from medical diseases to sports figures. Examples of hakia GalleriesTM include Anna Nicole [...]

Out of Their Own Big Mouth

Phil Butler

24-7PressRelease - February 16, 2007 - On Valentine's day bigmouthmedia and Global Media finally integrated the two companies for a match made in …Well made in the UK, which I suppose is heaven to my pals on those beautiful Islands. So now Global is part of bigmouthmedia and all their UK and USA clients will now be under the bigmouthmedia banner.
Global Media is one of the premier web marketing companies that have been focused on Continental Europe and Asia. Bigmouthmedia [...]

Polish Poets Threaten Google Supremacy!

Phil Butler

Google has launched legal action once again, this time against a group of Polish Poets! How's that for coming down hard on the little guy? In the press release Google is evidently trying to get the money hungry, robber baron poets to give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl.
I don't see how Google stood for this type of piracy this long, but Izabela Krawcyz of GMAil - the “Grupa Mlodych Artstow I Literatow, ” or Group of Young Artists and [...]

Web TV from South Pacific Islands

Phil Butler

The South Pacific Island archipelago of Vanuatu is debuting the first Internet based TV station from that area of the world. Vanuatu TV will introduce Vanuatu's customs, tourism and businesses to the world via TV programming professionally produced for Internet transmission.
CEO Grant Abbot decided to create Vanuatu TV after he spent a holiday there in 2006. Now people all over the world will be able to share the beauty and uniqueness of Vanuatu with one click of a mouse. Online [...]

Oh! Oh! Veoh!

Phil Butler

We received an invitation to check out the new features at Veoh, so let's see what is up at the popular video community.In case you don't know, Veoh is a unique community for distributing TV and video content. The Veoh player software enables users to distribute full screen TV quality video via broadband connection to sites around the world. Anyone from major movie studios to desktop PC users can broadcast their video over this secure platform.
According to out newest information, Veoh [...]

XO To Roll Out This Month!

Phil Butler

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 "experimental" model for the mass production of the little "Green and White Machines" set for July of this year.
The $150 laptops are a technological triumph [...]

WeWin Partners with Yahoo!

Phil Butler

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 redeemable at Modera.com during the month of February. Mondera was voted “Best of the Web” by Forbes Magazine and is recognized for its quality gems [...]

Tangler To Untangle Web Communication? Tested

Phil Butler

We have received an invitation to beta test another innovative product named Tangler. From the moment I signed up for the Beta I was really impressed with the different look and feel of the community. Tangler is essentially a forum, but with capabilities outside the realm of a traditional forum platform.
The browser based UI and controls at the site are really simple and easy to use, and the iconic based organization looks and works better than many forums. Adding [...]