Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

Google Profile on the Way to Becoming a Lifestreaming Service?

I wasn’t really paying attention to my Google Profile until now when I read Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion writing about its new feature which lets stream photos to your Profile. If you’re using Picasa Web Album which is Google Photo uploading site, you simply tick on it to let Google Profile stream your most [...]

Windows Live Service Gets More Social

Perhaps taking advantage of the growing popularity of social networking sites, Microsoft is almost short of turning its Windows Live Service into a full-blown social network. Microsoft has just rolled the new version of its windows Live service integrating various online services and tools for communicating and sharing. Among the new services being rolled out [...]

Find Great Deals at Yahoo Deals

Another just in time for the holiday shopping post from us here at Rotorblog. In times like these when everybody else seems to be tightening their belts, finding sites which offer great bargains and deals on Holiday stuff seems to have become a necessity today. And Yahoo’s Shopping Portal knows exactly done and is bringing [...]

BuzzDash Launches New Features

BuzzDash, which offers live online polls on everything, from news, politics and sports to celebrities, relationships and fashion has announced some spankin; new features.

Just in Time for the Holidays, Social Gift-Giving WebGiftr Launches

If you’ve been struggling to keep up with so many birthdays, anniversaries and other important events of your friends, family and business contacts, new social gift giving site Webgiftr might just be able to help you out.  Webgiftr an independent social site aims to help you out in remembering dates and special events and will [...]

Are You a HealtheHuman?

New Year’s resolution time is not far off.  Here are a few things you probably asked yourself during the year.
- When I actually was exercising, what was my routine?
- What was the name of that allergy medicine that nipped the problem in the bud?
- Am I eating too much red meat?
We are all concerned with [...]

Google Toolbar for IE Gets the Orkut Icon

I find it really amazing that despite the popularity of both MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and Friendfeed as a web application for connecting to people online, there are still some other social networking sites which managed to stay on, do their thing and gets ample membership base. One of this sites is the Google-owned [...]

Shrekster Offers a Social Networking Site for TheatreOgres

Call it a spoof of Friendster, a take on Facebook, or simply a fan site for the huge green ogre we all know as Shrek, but Shrekstre is certainly a fun community for what they call as theater ogres or theatre fans. Shrekster which just launched recently, was created in line with the opening of [...]

AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine, VideoCrawler

AT&T has just a launched a new video search engine called – video crawler. Although it is not quite clear as to why AT&T is venturing into a video search engine, VideoCrawler which was created in cooperation with startup Divvio, is a pretty sleek and robust search engine catering to the video-hungry users like us.

FT Previews its New Home Page, Is it Pink or What?

I just received an email from Financial Times announcing about the sneak preview of their newly redesigned home page. According to the email, the redesigned was aimed at establishing a sophisticated look and feel for the site which is consistent with the Financial Times branding. This branding includes a clean and uncluttered executive briefing on [...]

UpToUs Lets you Connect with Parents in your Trusted Groups

The search for a social networking site that both fit parents and protects their kids continues. This time we have UpToUs, a new social networking site which allows parents to create their own groups of trusted parents to socialize and share their experiences with their respective kids, ages 3-14.

LinkedIn Rolls Out Useful Events Feature

After introducing two new useful features, LinkedIn Answers and LinkedIn Groups, here comes the business professionals’ social networking site again with an equally useful and greatful feature – LinkedIn Events. According to the LinkedIn blog, LinkedIn Events complete the triumvirate of useful features that business networking professionals would probably need. And like the previous two [...]