Entries from January 2009

SlideShare Becomes Even More Useful with YouTube Video

For those who upload their Powerpoint (or Keynote) presentation online, chances are your using either SlideShare or Google Docs Presentation. SlideShare has been around in this web 2.0 niche for quite some time now and has made great strides in making their service as useful and as functional as possible. And the latest feature [...]

Stick To Your Fitness Plan With ThinQ

ThinQ Fitness is a Website designed to help those that are looking for some help sticking to a fitness plan. Or just for people that revolve their lives around fitness. Or it is for people looking to shop for fitness related items. Basically, this site is for everything fitness!

Facebook Grader Tells You How Famous You Are

What comes after finding out about your Twitter grade? Obviously, to know how you face in Facebook. Yes, in case you’re still not aware of it, this two web 2.0 application are the most popular and most widely used today.  So, if you want to know how you fare on your Facebook activities, based on [...]

Would You Like to Get Married on MySpace

What else can we probably not do on social networking sites?  We can meet friends, both old and new, promote brands, get hired for a job, and more. Now here’s something that’s quite different. How about getting hooked through MySpace? MySpace in partnership with popular reality TV producer Endemol is launching a new reality web [...]

Find the Fat in Restaurant Menu Items

Just in time for your New Year’s resolutions, Fatburgr allows you to check out nutritional information from some of the most widely spread fast food and restaurant chains. Of course, it won’t actually help you lose the weight- just let you know how badly off course you have gotten. Its primary focus is to unveil [...]

Nine Social Music Sites that Let You Listen, Share and Enjoy Music

Social music sites are not really that big compared to other niche social networking sites. Well, it is understandable since the restriction on music access is quite limiting social media fanatics to share and make their music files available for sharing on the web. The best that we all can do is create a playlists [...]

Weekly Blog Highlights: YouTube Gets Into the Limelight, Again

It has been a busy week for YouTube with several news coverage reporting various changes on the number 1 video uploading site. These changes include the muting options for uploaded videos, YouTube TV Channel for game consoles, YouTube Channel for the U.S. Senate and House of Reps, and the most recent video download option.  With [...]

New Social Network for the Wealthy

Now here’s a social network that I have no chance of joining.  Not because I don’t want to, but because they won’t have me.  Meet Affluence.org, the social network designed for society’s wealthiest to mingle.  Think of it like a virtual black-tie cocktail hour with some random pastry puff thingy.

Adult Social Network Members are Increasing

Young members of social networking sites should take necessary precautions with the personal stuff that they are putting up on their social networking profiles. It won’t be long until your parents found at about your social networking activities, as a PEW study revealed that adult internet users have increased from 8% in 2005 to a [...]

BarCamp Idol – there will be blood

As it was last year in the first weekend of February Barcamp Baltics will take place in Riga. From February 6ht to 8ht we will have presentations, ideas and many discussions about different aspects of web. If you are familiar with the Barcamp idea in general you know how much fun is to be there [...]

Is Google Trying to Destroy YouTube?

Update: The YouTube Blog has finally made a statement regarding this new muting policy.
One of the things that made YouTube such a big hit was the fact that it enables users to upload their originally recorded video, be it coming from their videocamera or a slideshow of photos created using Windows Movie Maker. Using [...]

ScreenToaster 2.0 Offers Screencasting in the Clouds

The first time I came across new screencasting service, ScreenToaster 2.0 a couple of weeks ago it was still in private, by-invitation-only beta mode. Although I was able to get an invite, unfortunately I wasn’t able to test it out during the lack of time. Anyway, ScreenToaster 2.0 has just announced that it is now [...]