Entries from October 2008

Gmail Gets More Mobile and Fun with Emoticons

There are two not-so-big news coming from Google’s popular Gmail client recently. One has something to do with version 2.0 of Google Mail Mobile while the other one was about a new feature of Gmail. This new feature, hold your breath now are those cutesy little icons we use to use in online forums and [...]

Twine Helps You to Keep Up with What You’re Into

Unlike most social networks, web 2.0 utilities, and services which becomes useful to you the moment you signed up and create your accounts on their site, new online service Twine becomes more useful the more you use its services. Twine is a smart online service which is powered by semantic understanding which simply means that [...]

Have You Got Something to Say? Use InternetShout to Blurt it Out

Is the social networking world ready for something as daring and yet innovative type of social network such as InternetShout? Why am I asking this? Because hardcore social networking fans may find InternetShout a desecration of the social networking concept. Why? Because in InternetShout you communicate with other members through – Voice. Ain’t it a [...]

Vehicle Recommendation Engine CarZen Launches

Finding a car can be a brutal experience.  Rather than walk into the dealership wide-eyed and clueless, it is best to have a plan; how much you’re willing to pay, what features you want, and of course, the make/model of the car.
Car recommendation engines are a dime a dozen on the Web, but newcomer CarZen [...]

MetaPlace Wants to be the MySpace of the Virtual World

When we talk of virtual worlds, the first thing that would normally come into our minds is Second Life. Despite its flaws, Second Life has become the major virtual community on the web. But that is not to say that Second Life is THE ONLY virtual world. There are still other companies which provide a [...]

All of Your Blog Comments In One Place

An early lesson bloggers learn – at least those who want to be successful – is to leave comments on other blogs.
One problem I have always had with this practice is that I often forget what I said and where. Several times, I’ve received e-mails from people who felt strongly about a comment I [...]

Glam Media Launches Brash Site for Boys and Men

Glam Media has been known for its women-centric content and ad network. So, it is kind of surprising that the company is launching a new content and ad network this time catering to us males – whether you belong to the boys or men’s category. The site branded as Brash.com aims to be the major [...]

Motorola Preps Up its Own Social Smartphone

Recently, Motorola has caused a minor stir among tech blogs when one of its job posting indicated a need for people who will be manning what it calls as the Android Social Smartphone Project. And since the first Google Android-powered handset was officially launched last week and will be released on Wednesday, we can’t help [...]

Britney Spears Goes Social, Sort Of

We’ve heard this kind of news before. Famous people getting into the online bandwagon. Tom did it with his own website. Presidential candidates have done it with their campaigns. And now look who is going social and even utilizing one of the most popular web 2.0 app? Britney Spears on Twitter. But aside from that [...]

Qwitter Tells You Who Unfollow You on Twitter

For the past couple of months, I’ve been getting Twitter messages informing me that so and so has just followed me on Twitter. For those whom I haven’t returned the “honor” yet, forgive me. I’m a very busy man and I rarely open my Twitter account anymore. But I promised to follow you once I [...]

Google Rolls Out Canvas Views for iGoogle Startpage

Google has just rolled out a new feature for its startpage iGoogle – the canvas views from some of its most popular gadgets and full reading views for feeds. For those not in the loop, Google Reader and iGoogle are almost the same product.  Google Reader is a feed aggregator which also supports some Google [...]

Yahoo Profile Becomes More Sociable

Realizing that everything on the web has become more “social” – that is social gaming, social shopping, social news and more, Yahoo has decided to join the “being social” bandwagon by introducing something to the Yahoo Profile service, well er, yeah Yahoo Profile just became more social or universal as Yahoo would like to put [...]