Entries from August 2008

Lulu Teams With WeRead

Self-publishing is a tough racket. On paper, the business model looks good; anyone can write a book and then sit back and watch the money roll in. Not so much. The reality is, most people have very limited success in generating interest in their goods.
Lulu, a major player in the self-pub sector, [...]

KiwiBox is a Social Networking Site Built by Teens for Teens

MySpace have had its share of bad experiences with teen members getting entraped by malicious adult members or even by fellow teen-age members. Hence, we couldn’t blame parents for trying to control their kids participation in social networking sites. But, we couldn’t blame also our teen-age member of the web 2.0 world if they won’t [...]

AtomKeep Keeps Your Accounts in Sync on All Social Networks

If you’re a social networking fan like Andrew, Maris and I, or if you are looking for a job or perhaps a better job and a professional with contacts listed on various online boards, then you might find AtomKeep a useful online service.

2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ Coverage Via Web

Adobe and CCTV.com are joining forces to create an “Olympic Network TV Station” with international appeal. Rooted in Adobe Flash and Flex technology, millions of sports fans in mainland China and Macau will be able to keep their eye on the games.
Thousands of hours of video will be available on CCTVOlympics.com, with sports fans [...]

RotorBlog Podcast #5: Tour Tracker and Buddy Updates

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Popular social bookmarking site Delicious and social netowork for bloggers MyBlogLog have updated their design. Looks like AOL also had busy summer working on new projects – check out Tour Tracker and Buddy Updates.
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Football Lovers Unite at Footbo Social Network

We haven’t really featured too many sports-related social networking site here at Rotorblog. But while scouring the web for a new social networking site to feature, I stumbled upon Footbo, a social networking site for football lovers. At first, I had second thoughts on whether to feature Footbo, but I couldn’t help it. The site [...]

Create an Interactive Portable Profile at mEgo

If the 3D-ish avatar or personal icon of Second Life turns you off for being to juvenile, your best bet for creating your own interactive profile might be mEgo’s interactive portable profile which you can use in your various social networking profiles. But why would you create an interactive profile anyways? We couldn’t really think [...]

10 More Twitter Apps for Your Tweeting Needs

Twitter has had some nice and not so nice share of publicities lately. The downtime continous although it has become minimal the past few days. On the good news side, Twitter has once again proven that it has been a pretty useful online communication tool, especially when chips are down during the South California earthquake. [...]

Socialmedian Connects You with Personalized News and Information

First, some facts – we’ve seen the explosion of great content on the internet for the past couple of years and content creation and distribution has become easier with the web 2.0 phenomenon. But with information explosion comes the need for web 2.0 users to wade through great content and find the most relevant for [...]

Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking Sports a New Look

Finally, after teasing its loyal users with a new design and interface, social bookmarking site previously known as Del.icio.us, has made its changes official. And it even comes with a new domain name, it is now known as Delicious.com minus the excess dots of the previous site. The old site still works and will point [...]