Artists sign up and upload some of their music. Users listen to it. If they like it, they pay $10. If a band reaches $50,000 in donations, SellABand helps them record an album with a studio and expert...
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Tomorrow, Scrapblog, a hybrid media-sharing and online journal site, will be demoing the new version of their Flash-based online scrapbook application (Techcrunch) It is said scrapblog will fall in...
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Have you ever felt you needed some quick advice on an important, interpersonal matter, but haven't wanted to use some 'public' talk radio, new program, or love line to find out how to...
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LG Electronics (LG), a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories, and Google today announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google's services on millions of...
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Years ago, when Google started offering over 2 gigs of storage on their mail solution, the world changed. I used to host my own mail as regular mail providers would give you a louzy 25 mb for a mail...
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Mobile browsing is nothing new. I did it on my gsm years ago, but it wasn't really very usable - these days a lot more is possible as mobile browsers have grown up and mobile devices offer color...
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by S.M. Schrama on March 27, 2007
Kathy Sierra, the author of Creating Passionate Users, a good and skillful writer, as received several death threats on her blog. Without going into detail, the threads are scary enough to make my...
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From time to time, out of curiosity, I take a peek into Gmail's spam folder. Today I did and I am amazed by the stupidity of spamrunners : Do they really think this will get through ?? Or is...
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by S.M. Schrama on March 26, 2007
Almost every (big) search engine has one : a personalized start page. And there are others. Netvibes, Pageflakes and more have popped up sometime last year, and they all offer largely the same : a...
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It's not the first time I blog about imified here; I have posted before and if you've read it you know how I am a big fan, especially because of Imified's innovative nature. Instead of...
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My best friend, who is no authority on web 2.0 but an eager follower, said it in a few simple words : "Twitter ? They will have disappeared in a couple of months." And to be honest, I think...
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you've just created. Just as he says, after the initial attentio of big blogs like Techcrunch, the attention will slowly slow down and eventually disappear.The web 2.0 savvy audience is overloaded...
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When running a business or project, you often need to discuss things with your coworkers. Sometimes it can be done on the phone, but in some cases you need to virtually meet. So what can you use ?...
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I have to apoligize for not postig yesterday, as you would have expected me to. I do have a very valid reason for not posting : I have been really busy trying out what I believe is the most...
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Twitter has been around for quite some time now - I reported on it a while back. It seems that twitter is on the move - I see a lot of twitter activity on blogs, for some reason it seems......
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There's a rumor saying Google is talking to Orange about a cell phone that is to be produced by HTC, the biggest producer of smartphones. What does that teach us ? HTC makes mostly hardware to run...
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by S.M. Schrama on March 16, 2007
Dutch Social Network Hyves has developed into one of the biggest and mos popular Social Networks in a very short time. Hyves has over 3 million members as of last week. The site, and the company show...
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A couple of days ago I discussed two mindmapping applications, Mindmeister and Mindomo. Yesterday I checked out Bubble.us and I was very surprised. Bubble.us is, although it's in beta and certain...
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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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The social web can be very addictive. If you don't have much else to do, why not stay online all the time to hang out with your friends ? The problem that occurs is when you (have to) leave...
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Anne Zelenka reviewed three mindmappers. Mindmappers are very useful in alot of ways, and I have used several in my lifetime. So what is it ? Simple. Where you would write down issues on paper, draw...
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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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