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by Greg Cruey on November 18, 2008
Most of the time, I really don't care who you are. My little portion of the blogosphere is about ideas and information - and it doesn't matter whether you're really a 60 year old gay...
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by Greg Cruey on November 13, 2008
paidContent.org reported today that the well known travel site, Lonely Planet, is going to start paying amateur travel writers for their opinions published at the Lonely Planet site. According the...
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by Linda Roeder on June 12, 2008
The Uber Index helps you create your own news portal complete with only the news you want. Build a group on the Uber Index about a specific topic you want to cover. Whether you like knitting, music,...
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by S.M. Schrama on July 19, 2007
Jing is a program you can download to your computer, which you can use to take snaphots, or record whatever you are doing. The software integrates nicely with IM and mail, but also with...
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by S.M. Schrama on March 14, 2007
Amongst the finest in software is a beautiful little app called Google Image Ripper. What it does ? Exactly what you'd expect. You key in your keyword, choose size and start downloading.Normally,...
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by S.M. Schrama on March 12, 2007
Last week, posting has been somewhat slow on Web 2.0, I apologize. I have a good reason though - last week my new site opened officially : Tech Intelligence. But here's what happened right here,...
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by S.M. Schrama on February 26, 2007
What happenend last week on Web 2.0 Weblog ? We learned some aspects on how TV will transition to the internet here and here We saw some of the beauty of using thickbox on websites We have learned...
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by S.M. Schrama on February 21, 2007
VoIP News � Blog Archive � Skype Pro Launches in EuropeWhen the first news around Pro came through at the end of last year, I thought they were doing what a lot of companies do : get a lot of......
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by S.M. Schrama on January 15, 2007
Sealand, a fromer fort in the sea near Britain, was unused and converted into a principality years ago. Saeland has it's own passports, stamps, and such. An internet company has had it's...
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by S.M. Schrama on January 09, 2007
* Breaking News * As an original apple fanatic and a gadget lover, I've been awaiting the much anticipated news from Apple's Steve Jobs all day long, and now it's out there and I totally...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 28, 2006
In the ongoing soap opera around mp3 download site AllofMp3, a number of record labels *from the US* have filed a lawsuit against the site. I don't understand why this website has to die, but...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 22, 2006
When Japanase Sun-eployee Hideya Kawahara showed a software package he created to his collegues a couple of years ago, he could not foresee that his creation would become a 3d window manager that sets...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 27, 2006
Bittorrent is a peer to peer protocol I have never used in my life. Bittorrent is supposed to be very efficient in means of data transportation. For that reason, bittorrent is used a lot by people who...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 18, 2006
Websites that offer music downloads are more popular than ever. The reason is simple : Music on cd or dvd or another carrier is too expensive. Personally I can't speak for the USA, but in Europe...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 17, 2006
One of the world's best browsers, firefox, has just had a release candidate for version 2.0. According to it is several months late and it won't offer a lot of new features compared to version...
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Jeteye, Inventor of the Jetpaks will be supported by Yahoo! messenger, Yahoo! announced yesterday. The new Yahoo! messenger is available in beta and has lots of improvements.Yahoo! is bringing the...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 12, 2006
A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of talking to David Hayden, CEO of Jeteye. Jeteye was founded late 2004 and released it's software around april 20 2006. The main aim of the company was...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 07, 2006
Google Spreadsheets has launched, although it's a limited test. Currently google doesn't give accounts to everyone. The Specs are not too different from other products in this category such as...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 06, 2006
Only last week I discussed Project Comet, a Web2.0 blogging platform by Sixapart. A quick check today reveals that Project comet is now called VOX - and although the site says preview, they already...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 06, 2006
Liam Breck from Network Improv has sent and published an open letter to Tim O'Reilly concerning the possible trademarking of the term "Web 2.0". Although it seems that after the...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 06, 2006
Canvas Painter is one of the smoothest webbases apps I have ever seen. As the app is obviously meant for demo purposes, all your art work is lost when you leave the site. Tom Trenka from...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 06, 2006
IBM has announced their support for the dojo Toolkit and foundation. They're not the first one to do so, but their involvement could mean a big push for the Dojo Foundation.Dojo is the Open Source...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 06, 2006
Yahoo relaunches it's Yahoo My Web 2.0 Social bookmarking site tonight at 7 pm PST. Yahoo is to be considered a big player when it comes to Web2.0 : It owns del.icio.us as well as Flickr....
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by S.M. Schrama on June 02, 2006
There are many blog searchengines out there. Yet another one has seen the light : Gnoos. What's different on Gnoos ? It is is a local blog search engine - for Australia. I don't no if we...
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by S.M. Schrama on June 01, 2006
Shopify is a webshop, AJAX'ified and, more important, hosted. It has not been released yet, but a preview is available on their site.Why is Shopify Hosted? Hosting Shopify allows us to improve the...
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