In the web startpage niche, Netvibes is among the pioneers in the market. And when web widgets became popular, Netvibes was also among those who join the bandwagon and have been offering personalized widgets. But then again, web startpage platforms were never really given too much publicity and hype despite being one important aspect of [...]

Social network for bloggers BlogCatalog continues to improve on its site features and services as it just rolled out its own Blog Search Engine. Similar to Technorati and Google Blog Search, BlogCatalog’s search feature is a total aggregation search engine that aims to deliver relevant search results not only from its directory but from member [...]

Google’s email client, Gmail is a powerful web-based email client. Although it still hasn’t achieved the unlimited storage feature like Yahoo mail, Gmail’s storage capacity keeps on growing everyday. With its simple and clean interface, Gmail has become the top choice for a web mail account by many. To make it even more useful and [...]

Despite having not too much noise during the time that it has been operating, StumbleUpon managed to survive the test of times and was able to gain followers and users. In fact, the StumbleUpon site its number of stumblers to around 6,089,710 already. Despite this numbers though, StumbleUpon still has not managed to emerge as [...]

In what could be a glimpse of what the future holds for Twitter, the top microblogging site has launched Twitter Election 2008 or simply TE08. As if there were not enough users taking full advantage of its site, Twitter is leveraging on the Election 2008 to attract more users, and perhaps give us a glimpse [...]

So what would you get if you combine two of the most popular web 2.0 applications, specifically an information aggregator and a microblogging service? We’re talking about Twitter and Digg of course and their combination is certainly a cool new site called Dwigger.

If you were following TechCrunch50, an annual event which TC has started last year, whereby startups are given to demo their product to a panel of judges and whoever gets to pass on certain criteria gets to bring home with the plum. Whereas last year’s winner, MINT is an uber cool startup with its innovative [...]

Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn is introducing several enhancements to its site in the coming months. Among these new features an enhancements are Group Discussions, Group Home Page, enhanced roster, and digest emails.

And the Twittie goes to…
Every established medium gets its own award show; why should Twitter be any different?
That’s right folks, it’s time to pay your respects to the very best visionaries who were able to hammer out 140 characters. Whether you have spotted the smartest, funniest or snarkiest tweet – nominate your favorites.
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Continuing our coverage of recent developments in the FriendFeed camp, we just found out that finally the lifestreaming service is introducing some set of easy-to-embed widgets which we can all use easily in our respective sites/blogs. Although some of the contents of these widgets can already be done using RSS the FriendFeed’s official widgets is [...]

Fans and loyal users of Google’s free blog hosting site Blogger.com aka Blogspot.com would be glad to know that they can now add those nifty iGoogle Gadgets on the sidebar of their respective blogs. Yes folks, you can now embed various useful widgets and start giving your blog readers more important information and tidbits delivered [...]

Although Open Salon has been beta testing its site for several months now, with around 1,500 selected beta testers, it is only now the the blogging site is opening its door to the public. What makes Open Salon different from all the other free-hosted blogging services is the fact that it’s site features blog posts [...]