I use Google's RSS Reader every day to catch up with my favorite feeds and blogs. I have gotten quite used to the program, with it's lesser points. But this morning I was surprised to see a...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on September 28, 2006
Lots of people always claimed that commercialising the internet would take away it's future. Fortunately, these people were wrong and the internet still exists. To be exact, the internet is bigger...
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AOL Pictures just came out of beta status. The site looks pretty simple, and as we like eyecandy, that's a slight disappointment. I have to say it resembles , and he has some points, but I cannot...
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In my personal opinion, forums have been a pre-decessor of blogs and all other interactive Web2 style things on the internet. With the birth and especially the growth of blogs, I believe that forums...
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Twitter offers something I always expected from ICQ years ago - back in the days when ICQ and Yahoo were the only ones to offer IM. I remember a time when ICQ setup a system where you could send...
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HeyLetsGo is a new Social site that allow you to see if something is going on you can go to. HeyLetsGo helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet. * Ever wish there's one place...
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Although this sounds like someone with a lot of power is going to announce that the internet will be fased out, this is much less dangerous:Pew has released its analysis of how the Internet will...
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Voip (Voice Over IP) is a big thing in the internet and communication today. Recently I've started investigations into VOIP for our home business - why paying for a landline (expensive in Holland)...
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) Two things : Turning software into a webbased service is good But why do it when there are already several services out there that can do this ? Instead of releasing something new that nobody has...
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Islandoo has been up for 16 days and already it has a daily vist cound of 800,000. What is Islandoo ?Islandoo was setup only to find candidates for a UK television show called Shipwrecked, which airs...
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The White House has discovered Youtube, and is repotedly using Youtube to post anti-drugs campaign movies. The ONDCP is the driver behind the movies : Today, the White House Office of National Drug...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on September 21, 2006
Years ago I started hosting my own mail instead of relying on ISP's that don't keep their promises, forward spam while telling you that's your problem and so on. I ran simple unix mail,...
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I have reviewed Zoho's Planner before on this website. Zoho also offers several other programs online, forming a full featured office suite. Zoho is pretty innovative, and this time they've...
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For those amongst you who knew Streamload, they're still there but now are known as Mediamax. Their key product is....space. 25 gigabytes of free storage :MediaMax, powered by Streamload, gives...
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When I reviewed Bloggers new beta last month, one of the first things I realized was that all kinds of sites that integrate in one way or another with blogger, will probably not integrate with this...
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When I discussed Sony's Mylo last month, the device wasn't available yet, although it was announced to be available in september. As of the first of september I've been eagerly awaiting...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on September 13, 2006
There are several sites out there that will hold your images, enabling galleries and alternative layouts and other features for your pics. Most are limited in one way or another. So is Zoto. Zoto...
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eBible is what you could call Social Networking of the religious kind. The site opened a couple of days back :We're open! After more than a year of planning, alpha and beta releases, late night...
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Filed in archive Start-Ups
by S.M. Schrama on September 12, 2006
) And that last sentence is funny in regard to the terms and conditions of the site :Users cannot convert any winnings into real, tangible monetary benefits. A User's winnings (or losses) are...
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Last week I spoke on the manipulation of Digg, or rather the misusing of Digg to become popular. I was most certainly not the only one - but the discussion has gone far and eventually led to changes...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on September 11, 2006
Online video sharing is hot. So hot, that every company with a webportal is opening a video content site. Microsoft has never been one of the fastest with new technologies or developments. After years...
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Secondlife, a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents discovered an exploit last saturday permitting *hackers* to have a peek in the database behind the site :Detailed...
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