Entries from October 2008

McCain vs. Obama = Website Wars

We might not know who is going to win the U.S. presidential election come November (well, we have a pretty good idea), but we do know which candidate has the better Web site.
More than 100 Internet experts served as judges for the annual WebAward competition held by The Web Marketing Association.
And it looks like a [...]

Plan Your Funeral Before It’s Too Late

As a kid I used to always think that when my time on this fine planet came to an end, I wanted my remains sprinkled around Yankee Stadium.
Given the new stadium and all of the corporate greed surrounding the sport, you can strike that from the record.
Rather, I’d like the unfortunate event to pass like [...]

FriendFeed Gives Us Another Reason to Procastinate More – Live Feed

Here are some more reason to slack on our day job, procastinate and enjoy what our Friendfeed friend’s are doing in real time. Friendfeed has just rolled out a new feature which gives us real-time view of our Friendfeed friends’ updates. Utilizing a technique that it calls “long polling” which practically eliminates to send a [...]

Facebook Photos Hits the 10 Billion Mark

Wow! 10 billion photos uploaded on Facebook is certainly a lot considering that it is not really a photo uploading site per se but rather a social networking site. Facebook’s Engineering Blog reported that there are now over 10 billion photos uploaded on the site. According to Caroline McCarthy of CNET.News’ those figures are more [...]

Sing Your Heart Out with the Redesigned MySpace Karaoke

In the land where I am right now, Karaoke or the now popular videoke is the favorite past time of simple folks during simple gatherings. It’s always a good way to practice your singing voice as well as annoy the wits out of your neighbors. Hopefully, MySpace users who would visit MySpace Karaoke would make [...]

Tip’d Brings a Digg-Like Social Bookmarking Tool to the Financial World

There are many startups and web service which tried to emulate Digg’s structure, platform and overall form but many failed while some succeed to live another day until such time that users finally realize that they need to go back to using Digg. Tip’d which describes itself as a community for financial news, ideas and [...]

Meebo Gets More Partners

Instant Messaging and online communications client Meebo has some great news to spread. Hot on the heels of reaching around 72.9 million users, with around 26.2 million of which are US based, as reported by comScore, Meebo is also announcing that they have reached partnership agreement with more web-based services.

VidEngage.com Offers Social Networking with Video

Although YouTube is a pretty powerful video uploading and sharing site, it however lacks some social networking features. Despite the great amount of content uploaded and shared on its site, YouTube remains to be just like that – a video uploading and sharing site with some dash of social networking features. New social networking site [...]

Kidzui Launches a Kid-Friendly Social Networking Feature and a Homework Helper

Remember the kid-friendly website that we featured not so long ago called Kidzui? Well, the site has just introduced some social networking-related features plus a Homework Helper service as well. This new features come hot in the heels of the first-ever WiredTrust Best Practice seal for a children’s site.

Ning Embraces OpenSocial

Ning.com, a web tool/application/service which allows you to create your own social network has been around for quite some time now. Despite the lack of publicity and hype and too much media coverage, Ning managed to sustain itself and has gradually build-up a large userbase. Well, what can you expect from a web service such [...]

Mahalo Gets a News Ticker, Wants to Liveblog the World

Those who know Jason Calacanis would certainly be aware of Mahalo, his human-powered search engine. For quite sometime now, Mahalo has been struggling to make it big in the search engine market. What if you are proposing a new way of searchign the web and up against industry giants such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft? [...]

The Future of TV is Online, and YouTube Wants to be Part of It

Google is really trying to find ways of making YouTube viable and sustainable. For quite some time now, YouTube has failed to bring in some considerable revenues to Google despite its popularity and high-traffic. Recently, YouTube has rolled out a Click-to-Buy service which enables users to purchase soundtracks and music featured on vides that they [...]