Bitwine offers an interesting alternative to a lot of websites. When you are looking for expertise in a certain field, it is often nice to talk to someone. Bitwine enables this. How does it work ?...
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I am furious. And disappointed. And sad. Because I just received bad news : AllOfMP3 will shut down. Apparently the russian government has bent over and took it from behind :The document specifically...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on November 27, 2006
One of the things I hate most about Web 2 websites is the registration. A lot of websites require registration before you can use their services. In order to register you have to enter a valid...
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Resizing images online is not a rare find on the internet today - many sites offer this functionality. Last site I checked out was Mypictr, a site that offers you quick creation of avatars you can use...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on November 26, 2006
I review a lot of websites that are supposed to be Web 2.0, or claim to be Web 2.0. Most of them are Web 2.0, some of them try to be but are not. So what makes a website Web......
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Techcrunch's Marshall Kirkpatrick got my hopes up when I read his piece on ) When I hurried over to the site to see what it looks like now, I was pretty disappointed. Changing the order of feeds...
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Filed in archive Business
by S.M. Schrama on November 22, 2006
Susi Weaser used to make movies for Youtube she uses on her blog, ShinyShiny. Her blog is dubbed "A girl's guide to gadgets" and is all about, gadgets for girls. All her efforts have...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on November 22, 2006
Yesterday I did not find the time to post for you, my much appreciated readers. Why ? I am on vacation. Yours truly is in Kansas, USA. What am I doing here ? Well, I am visiting family not far......
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The virtual world is not a safe place any longer. Last sunday a worm made all users of Second Life block others but themselves. Besides that, the worm added golden rings to the site. According to the...
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Myspace, probably the bestknown social network, has been sued by Universal Music. The reason ? You can probably think of that yourself : copyright infringement. Interesting is that the real battle is...
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NHL, The National Hockey League has signed a deal with Youtube to highlight marketing clips.NHL already had a deal with Google to highlight video's on Google Video, and now that Youtube is owned...
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Youtube contained a lot of Comedy Central's videoclips until they ordered Youtube to remove the clips. Loud noise was heard and they allowed Youtube to put them back on the site. But now, Comedy...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on November 16, 2006
GMail is good. Very good, I could say. Impressive search capabilities, nice interface, lots of features, and it's fast. What more could we possibly want ? Even more features. But doesn't...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on November 15, 2006
The photo search company focusing on facial recognition Riya has launched a quite revolutionary search engine called Like. Why revolutionary ? Let me explain. I always wanted a program or script that...
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*Breaking news* Techcrunch received a letter from Youtube's lawyers, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, accusing the good crunchers of violating YouTube's Terms of Use and more. So what...
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Recently I spoke about the fact that Mac's iCal talks to Google's calendar service with the use of a little piece of software. Today I am a happy man. Google's Calendar is now...
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Worldcoolers.org's goal is to raise public awareness to climate change. How ? From the website you can install a desktop application that will receive updates, articles and such. If you run...
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Latest addition to the growing list of foodrelated websites is ) So how is it revolutionary ? Simple. When you enter the site, it allows you to choose a number of characteristics of the diet...
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Filed in archive General
by S.M. Schrama on November 13, 2006
The internet is in many ways free. That is good. But I see more and more movement around licenses, (il)legal content and such. And that is not good. It will kill the free net, and the free world with...
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Anyone who works via the Web knows these days that search engines can be your best friends. It is all about your ranking, and there are many tricks of the trade and important strategies to learn when...
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PayPerPost is a terrible site that pays bloggers a fixed fee to write about certain topics or products. Where PayPerPost doesn't require disclosure of this information, newcomer ReviewMe does :...
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I have always had problems remembering things. So I have to walk around carrying a PDA that holds all kinds of information and has audible reminders. Being a gadget freak, there's no problem in...
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