Posts Tagged with ‘web-site’

My-Currency, “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Phil Butler

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 site had been selected as one of the 68 products showcased at DEMO 07.
I was not sure what to think about a press release [...]

AdKafe - Spelled Wrong - Just Wrong

Phil Butler

AdKafe.com announced the launch of a new service where consumers design the ads for marketers. The innovative site allows users to create designs that will benefit both marketers and designers. According to the release, designers will have direct access to the creative minds of the world.
The service brings ad seekers and ad designers closer by utilizing the power of collaboration on the Internet. Companies seeking advertisements benefit by tapping into the world's creative minds and make purchases only after viewing [...]

Ziggs - ZZzzzz

Phil Butler

Ziggs announced yesterday that the Ziggs People HubTM would allow online users a free utility for organizing the Internet around their people, their work and their lives. The people hub allows users to customize their own hub for organizing and communicating with people and assisting with managing a variety of online activities central to professional life.
Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Ziggs, said, “The Internet has proven to be a great way for people to connect. Web 2.0 capabilities [...]

Mojiti - Testing For Fun

Phil Butler

We were given an invitation to test drive new features prepared by Mojiti for public release last week (when it was available to press only). So we hopped in to see what the new website is like. Now the new features are available to anyone - so you can see everything for yourself.
Mojiti is a new website for uploading, creating, and enhancing video already on site or from remote upload. The site is a platform for introducing Flash Spots onto [...]

Miniclip - Pennies from Arthur

Phil Butler

Quickly Calculate The Value Of 34 million Cents!
Miniclip.com announced yesterday the launch of a new game based on "Arthur and the Invisibles", the highly anticipated animation movie scheduled for release in February in the UK. The new game was developed and placed by digital agency Grapevine and is called "Loot Out". Arthur fans can help the animated hero collect treasure in order to save the land of the invisibles.
"We know kids are eagerly awaiting the wild adventures of [...]

Giorgio Armani 2.0

Phil Butler

When will we know the Web 2.0 has arrived? When high fashion meets high tech!
I think it may be safe to say Web 2.0 has arrived when Giorgio Armani broadcasts haute couture live on msn.com! Armani fans did not have to scramble for tickets to his latest fashion show, as the world famous Italian designer took the fabulous show to everyone with an Internet connection on Wednesday.
Hollywood actresses Cate Blanchett and Katie Holmes sat and watched from the front row [...]

ByIndia.com - Update

Phil Butler

                                                                          Update ByIndia.com takes on a new Web 2.0 look!
Web2.0Corp's search engine ByIndia.com is continuing its new makeover. The site is about to launch India's largest Internet sweepstakes worth US$5 million dollars.  Even the site's logo, which has been the same since its launch, is being updated to reflect the site's Web 2.0 character.
"ByIndia.com is a different site than it was four months ago," says William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp, "we thought it was time to update the site's [...]

Odiogo For Audio Blogging

Phil Butler

OdiogoTM has launched a new web 2.0 application that allows users to create audio media from text content. With this new application bloggers can create and podcast textual blog entries to be viewed on MP3 players, PDA's, cell phones and laptops. The blog entries are converted into high fidelity voice files that can be loaded to devices anywhere.
Odiogo extracts textual content from blog posts or articles so that it can be listened to “on the go.” Odiogo essentially transforms [...]

ShoutPost In The Wilderness

Phil Butler

ShoutPost has just launched a free, innovative site for creating blogs. Following the new trend for advertising free blog sites, the creators of tBlog.com have built a site where users can be heard without the "noise" of advertising.  According to their press release, ShoutPost is the first free blog syndication host with no advertising.
Unlike sites such as MySpace.com, Friendster.com and blog.com ShoutPost reserves user spaces for user content only. The new site also provides a unique syndication system that enables bloggers to create their [...]

CBBC - Virtual Toddler

Phil Butler

The BBC announced yesterday that their affiliate CBBC is developing an online virtual world for children. CBBC is a channel for 7-12 year old children, and the new plans will allow digitally capable children to access virtual character avatars. The children will be able to create the characters and build an online presence with an array of resources aimed at the age group.
CBBC World bosses said that this new world would not have the financial aspects of other virtual worlds [...]