Entries from November 2008

Find Great Deals at Yahoo Deals

Another just in time for the holiday shopping post from us here at Rotorblog. In times like these when everybody else seems to be tightening their belts, finding sites which offer great bargains and deals on Holiday stuff seems to have become a necessity today. And Yahoo’s Shopping Portal knows exactly done and is bringing [...]

MySpace TV Now Streams Video from Hulu and other Channels

MySpace just launched a new internal application called MySpace Primetime which would allow you to embed a video widget on your MySpace profile and homepages. That MySpace Primetime video widget is your ticket to watching contents coming from the ever growing Hulu as well as other MySpace video content partners including Sony and Warner Bros.

BuzzDash Launches New Features

BuzzDash, which offers live online polls on everything, from news, politics and sports to celebrities, relationships and fashion has announced some spankin; new features.

Just in Time for the Holidays, Social Gift-Giving WebGiftr Launches

If you’ve been struggling to keep up with so many birthdays, anniversaries and other important events of your friends, family and business contacts, new social gift giving site Webgiftr might just be able to help you out.  Webgiftr an independent social site aims to help you out in remembering dates and special events and will [...]

Are You a HealtheHuman?

New Year’s resolution time is not far off.  Here are a few things you probably asked yourself during the year.
- When I actually was exercising, what was my routine?
- What was the name of that allergy medicine that nipped the problem in the bud?
- Am I eating too much red meat?
We are all concerned with [...]

Google Enables Video Chat Inside Gmail

If you find switching from email to chat using Gmail helpful and convenient, you might be even more glad to know that Google has just enabled voice and video on Gmail’s chat facility. Yes, you read it right, Gmail Chat has become a Skype-like service with pseudo-VOIP features. The new video and voice chat facility [...]

Google Toolbar for IE Gets the Orkut Icon

I find it really amazing that despite the popularity of both MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Friendfeed as a web application for connecting to people online, there are still some other social networking sites which managed to stay on, do their thing and gets ample membership base. One of this sites is the Google-owned [...]

Shrekster Offers a Social Networking Site for TheatreOgres

Call it a spoof of Friendster, a take on Facebook, or simply a fan site for the huge green ogre we all know as Shrek, but Shrekstre is certainly a fun community for what they call as theater ogres or theatre fans. Shrekster which just launched recently, was created in line with the opening of [...]

AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine, VideoCrawler

AT&T has just a launched a new video search engine called – video crawler. Although it is not quite clear as to why AT&T is venturing into a video search engine, VideoCrawler which was created in cooperation with startup Divvio, is a pretty sleek and robust search engine catering to the video-hungry users like us.

FT Previews its New Home Page, Is it Pink or What?

I just received an email from Financial Times announcing about the sneak preview of their newly redesigned home page. According to the email, the redesigned was aimed at establishing a sophisticated look and feel for the site which is consistent with the Financial Times branding. This branding includes a clean and uncluttered executive briefing on [...]

VentureDig Is Like Twitter for Entrepreneurs

Who really has the time to find all the best new websites and products out on the web?
I don’t, and certainly the creator of this new website, VentureDig, doesn’t either. The founder, Scott, started this Web site within the past month as a sounding board (or micro-blogging board, as he refers to it) for new [...]

UpToUs Lets you Connect with Parents in your Trusted Groups

The search for a social networking site that both fit parents and protects their kids continues. This time we have UpToUs, a new social networking site which allows parents to create their own groups of trusted parents to socialize and share their experiences with their respective kids, ages 3-14.