There are two big items that made waves this week – the great Gmail outage of 2009 and the continuing discussion about the Facebook TOS issue. All these news items generate too much buzz around the tech blogging community, so much so that their Techmeme contextual entries stayed on the front page of the tech [...]

Maybe because it’s because I’m in the market for a new mattress, but sleep-related Websites have been on my radar all week. One of the cooler ones is Yawnlog, a Website that acts as a ’sleep tracker.’
After registering (there are currently several hundred users), you tell the Website when you went to sleep, when [...]

If you’ve used the “Following” feature of Google Blogger which was introduced a few months ago, you may have enjoyed how easy it is for your readers who also happen to be on Blogspot.com to follow your blog updates. Well, in fact according to the Blogger Buzz, nearly 3 million communities have used the said [...]

Since I’m a fan of drinking wine more than I am learning about it, you’re more likely to find me at the bar rather than hanging out in a virtual cellar.
But if you are a modern wine enthusiast who likes to talk bouquet and get wine suggestions from people with more (or less) experience than [...]

Frankly, I’ve never used Apple’s Safari browser before. I kept on getting a prompt from the iTunes Store asking me to install Safari but I didn’t since I’m already using 3 browsers – IE8, Firefox and Google Chrome. I said don’t need another browser. When I read about the Apple announcement regarding Safari 4 Beta, [...]

I was just going to blog about something, but the topic completely escapes me.
OH, wait, I remember!
I was going to warn you about the damage some scientists feel social networking sites are doing to our brains.
From Twitter to Facebook, MySpace to Bebo, British neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warns that these sites and ones like it are [...]

What do you get if you combine Wink.com’s people search technology and Reunion.com’s more than 50 million userbase? – MyLife.com, a new people search technology offering an effective and efficient way for people to find and keep track of everyone related to them, including friends and business contacts. MyLife.com offers a database of over 750 [...]

Last night the Academy Awards boasted an ‘economic-friendly’ skit that features “The Craigslist Dancers.” The reference to the free classified site is further proof that the Web 1.0 site is woven into our 2.0 fabric.
Classified ads might take up a small amount of text in newspapers, but they account for big business on the [...]

An oft overlooked Web 2.0 niche in the Web is PRIVATE scrapbooking. Let’s be honest, many of us like the concept of keeping a ‘journal’ but are less than enthused about sharing it with the world.
In my mind, the “my life is on display for everyone” line gets even wider when it comes to [...]

It’s been awhile since we’ve compiled this list for Twitter. It’s not the Twitter applications are getting scarce. On the contrary, the splurge of Twitter apps/extension continues and they keep on getting better. With Twitter becoming the no.3 social networking site, expect more of these applications/extension to come out. Here are eleven more Twitter [...]

You’ve heard the joke a thousand times: Remember when MTV used to play music videos?

As a child of the 90’s, I’ve always been a fan of the low budget music video. Insert grainy black and white effect HERE.

A new venture between Next New Networks and Verizon FiOS, 99DollarMusicVideos, hopes to connect the bridge between rookie artists and independent filmmakers. The site plans to release a new music video weekly and distribute it through YouTube and iTunes.

If you got excited when Sydney Morning Herald reported that the full copies of U2’s latest album No Line in the Horizon have found their way to the web, you might want to stop scouring the web to find ways of obtaining it the not so legal way. MySpace  is offering an alternative, by way [...]