Entries from December 2008

Open Web Awards – Final Voting Round

Voting on Open Web Award nominees are on final stage! Only top 3 companies in each category left and competition is really tough – every vote matters! Take couple minutes and choose your favorites as already dos more than 80,000 people according to Mashable.
Mashable Open Web Awards

Social Networking World Forum

Next year you have a brilliant opportunity to attend two day conference dedicated to social networking and mobile social networking. Event will be held from 9th to 10th March 2009 in Olympia Conference Centre, London featuring speakers form large social networks, companies working in internet and mobile markets.
Here are some of the speakers:
Anthony Lukom Managing [...]

Facebook Video Goes High-Definition and Embedabble Too

Although I don’t find time to post updates and make use of Facebook as often as a I want to due to busy schedule, I still make it a point to check on my Facebook account on a daily basis. But want I don’t really notice that much is Facebook’s video feature. If you’re not [...]

Social Bookmarking Site Qitera Comes Out of Hiding

If major social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Delicious are already boring you to death, you might want to try out the newest kid on the block Qitera. Knowing that it is entering what could be “a dying market” Qitera has infused some cool features to its social bookmarking services in the hopes of [...]

Student Views of College Life

They always say that having more options makes the decision exponentially more difficult. Choosing a college is no exception to the rule, whether you are looking at any school across the United States or simply within a certain radius from your home.
Stuvu.com- Student Views of College Life- intends to make that decision easier by allowing [...]

Flicrk Mobile Adds Video Streaming Feature

With the growing interests on its mobile site, Yahoo’s photo uploading and sharing service Flickr has just rolled out, or should we rather say overhauled its mobile site boasting of new features including video streaming. Yup, Flickr is starting to become more like YouTube folks. You can now play videos you uploaded to the site [...]

GoodShop: Give Without Giving This Holiday Season

With the economy slipping, charities across the nation are bracing themselves for declining contributions this holiday season.
While individuals still want to support their favorite cause, they may not have the time or the money to do so. There is a solution. More than 70,000 nonprofits have partnered with a new Yahoo-powered search engine [...]

Compare Colleges Web 2.0 Style

There are a few heavy decisions that most of us make in our lives that stay with us until the very end. Probably the one that requires the most attention is choosing a partner. The one possibly right behind it…choosing a college.
CampusCompare puts a plethora of information at your fingertips. Videos, audio, photos [...]

Amazon.com Now Has an iPhone App, and It’s Pretty Cool Too

Receiving major news coverage today is Amazon’s entry into the iPhone apps market with its very own free iPhone application which is simply called Amazon.com. What makes this new iPhone application cooler is one of its features which let you snap photos of things you encounter and the app will match it with the same [...]

MySpace to Launch Mobile Video Streaming via Members Pages

Hoping to leverage on rival Facebook and also to boost its mobile phone presence, MySpace is launching a new feature of its mobile MySpace interface that would let members watch video clips from their MySpace pages as well as TV shows on their mobile phones. The new feature will be made available soon on various [...]

Find Movies w/ the Movie Genome Project

What do you want to watch tonight? I don’t know. What do you want to rent? I don’t care.
We’ve all been there. Well this new Web site, Jinni.com, helps make the decision a bit easier. As they refer to it, their “movie genome project” helps match up users to movies and TV shows by sorting [...]

Social Search Engine Scour Gets More Personal

Remember the social search engine called Scour.com we covered not so long ago? Or are you still using it since then? Well, latest news coming from Scour is that it is introducing some new personalization features that will allow you to customize your Scour search experience including the ability to track your friends’ comments as [...]