Entries from November 2008

Tweetag Another Way to Browse the Twittosphere – through Tag Clouds

It’s been awhile since we’ve featured a Twitter-related application or service. So, it’s a good thing that Tweetag – which offers a unique way of browsing through all the public tweets on Twitter seems to be a pretty exciting new Twitter tool.

Star Chefs Collaborate On Cookstr, Recipe Finder

Just when you thought the rise of vowel-phobic domain names was yesterday’s news, a new one gets cooked up.
Cookstr offers up 200 star chefs, cookbook authors and publishers, all sharing their recipes and culinary expertise.. Unlike sites that allow any ‘chef’ to share their instructions on how to make ‘perfect grilled cheese,’ this site limits [...]

Local Search Engine City Search To Add Social Features

CitySearch, a local-entertainment web site owned and operated by the InterActiveCorp or IAC is introducing social networking features in a bid to attract more advertising sales as well as entice users into sharing about local businesses. If you’ve been using CitySearch, these new features will let you highlight restaurant reviews and other recommendations by other [...]

Mozilla Lets You Accesorize your Firefox Easily With Add-Ons

Mozilla’s web browser Firefox is a browser – we all know this fact. And we have known this a long time ago that’s why Firefox has steadily grown through the years. Part of Mozilla’s success was mainly due to the available extensions which third-party developers and Mozilla folks themselves have made available to use together [...]

wePapers Aims for the Largest Study Group Ever

Years removed from my education, I often wonder how the Internet and its bevy of study tools would have affected my grades.  Could it have been the difference between a C+ and a B-?  I guess we’ll never know.
Launching this week is wePapers, a Web site that operates like an online study group.  People from [...]

Drop Cards: Upload. Design. Distribute.

This Web site is geared towards companies that specialize or utilize some form of digital media and downloads. Dropcards are the size of credit cards, made out of plastic or metal, that can be tailored to your company’s specifications, wants and needs. They are designed to be distributed to whomever your audience may be, and [...]

Voice-Enabled Search Comes to the iPhone

Last week, a rumor of a new Google Mobile App for the iPhone is making the voice-recognition feature a reality. Many waited for it to become available as early as Friday but for no apparent reason it didn’t show up in the iTunes apps store. What it needed was a single post from the Official [...]

Black Friday Looms; Get Your Shop On

Spoiler alert! BlackFriday@GottaDeal.com is a website that for 6 years running shows off most major retail stores Black Friday sales a few weeks in advance. Why is this important? Well it gives you time to do some comparison shopping.

Share Your PowerPoint Presentations with SlideBoom

PowerPoint Presentations are powerful and engaging tools for promoting your brand or conveying project results. But most PowerPoint presentations are heavy on the file size and difficult to share via attachment. Hence, most of us turn to online slide presentations to share the contents of our PowerPoint presentations. But most if not all of these [...]

Google Profile on the Way to Becoming a Lifestreaming Service?

I wasn’t really paying attention to my Google Profile until now when I read Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion writing about its new feature which lets stream photos to your Profile. If you’re using Picasa Web Album which is Google Photo uploading site, you simply tick on it to let Google Profile stream your most [...]

Facebook Ensures You’ll Never Forget Birthdays Again

Frankly, I’m wondering why Facebook took this long to implement this feature or service. Friendster has a birthday reminder for a long time now, where it sends you Birthday reminders of your friends through email alerts. And I must admit that I found Friendster’s birthday reminder alerts pretty useful in ensuring that I get to [...]

Windows Live Service Gets More Social

Perhaps taking advantage of the growing popularity of social networking sites, Microsoft is almost short of turning its Windows Live Service into a full-blown social network. Microsoft has just rolled the new version of its windows Live service integrating various online services and tools for communicating and sharing. Among the new services being rolled out [...]