You are voting for your favorite niche and miscellaneous social network in the Open Web Awards, a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The top three sites in this category will proceed to the final round starting December 17th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San [...]

The number of people looking to make a quick buck on the Internet continues to grow by the second. A tactic that more and more startups are attempting to employ (though many have not been successful) is allowing casual Web users to earn money by doing things they’ve always done. From searching the [...]

First announced in June, Ask.com has officially launched AskEraser, a service that will not only delete your search history, but likely some of Google’s fan base as well.

Send audio messages to friends by e-mailing them or by embedding a message into a blog or Web site thanks to Outshouts.
Customize your message by mashing your voice with audio tracks that live on your computer. This protects the company from people who use unlicensed audio.

In what was the predictable next step for VOIP, calls can now be made directly from an Internet browser, thanks to SIP-based flash phone, TringMe.

Quick, quick – I need it now!
We’ve all become products of impatience thanks to an increasingly stressful world. Not to mention, the Internet. To help further our rush-rush mentality there’s Definr; God forbid you have to wait an entire second to find out what leiotrichous means. (For the record, smooth-haired).

It’s the unthinkable: Your music library – gone.
In this day and age of portable digital media, thousands of dollars of music an video can disappear in the blink of an eye. And more often than not, bastard burglars are tempted by the easy kill. I mean, stealing something the size of a pen [...]

I don’t know about you, but some people never know what to buy me for my birthday or on holidays. That means I get loaded up with gift cards, many, which I’m embarrassed to report, that get lost, thrown away or forgotten about. (Sorry, Aunt Bea!) Retailers bank on this, and laugh all [...]

Information Technology professionals are rejoicing in their cubicles with the launch of Paglo a search engine that indexes information on the network you are managing.

This Friday marks Black Friday, the busiest (and craziest) shopping day of the year. Retrevo, however, suggests that you stay home and shop from the comfort of home.

I don’t know about your family, but Thanksgiving in my neck of the woods is pretty routine. And that’s just the way I like it! Why mess with perfection!

Fresh out of private beta and planning to spread across the globe is Tractis, a Web site that allows you to “sign” legally-binding contracts online – without a lawyer.