LinkedIn has just announced a new search platform which is currently being rolled out to some selected LinkedIn users. The new search platform is a robust and professional search engine for finding people across the LinkedIn network fast and in the most accurate manner. The new search platform was a product of user feedback gathered [...]

How powerful is your Twitter name?  Given the mainstream emergence of the microblogging sensation, wielding greater ‘influence’ on Twitter can help you accomplish big things in the Web 2.0 world.
A relatively new tool, Twitter.Grader, launched by HubSpot, let’s you find out how you compare to your peers.  Simply input your Twitter user name and hit [...]

Where is your user name being used and where is it available?  UserNameCheck serves a single purpose and that is to tell you exactly that.
While the site has received some criticism, most notably, that you only need to visit once.  This writer believes the simple site has several uses.

The dawn of text-based online newspaper reporting is approaching. More and more online newspaper sites are gradually integrating a new form media in delivering timely, relevant and sometimes citizen video journalism. A good example of these online newspapers is the NYTimes which just rolled a new video platform. And mind, the company has even made [...]

Unlike most social networks, web 2.0 utilities, and services which becomes useful to you the moment you signed up and create your accounts on their site, new online service Twine becomes more useful the more you use its services. Twine is a smart online service which is powered by semantic understanding which simply means that [...]

Finding a car can be a brutal experience.  Rather than walk into the dealership wide-eyed and clueless, it is best to have a plan; how much you’re willing to pay, what features you want, and of course, the make/model of the car.
Car recommendation engines are a dime a dozen on the Web, but newcomer CarZen [...]

Glam Media has been known for its women-centric content and ad network. So, it is kind of surprising that the company is launching a new content and ad network this time catering to us males – whether you belong to the boys or men’s category. The site branded as Brash.com aims to be the major [...]

Recently, Motorola has caused a minor stir among tech blogs when one of its job posting indicated a need for people who will be manning what it calls as the Android Social Smartphone Project. And since the first Google Android-powered handset was officially launched last week and will be released on Wednesday, we can’t help [...]

We’ve heard this kind of news before. Famous people getting into the online bandwagon. Tom did it with his own website. Presidential candidates have done it with their campaigns. And now look who is going social and even utilizing one of the most popular web 2.0 app? Britney Spears on Twitter. But aside from that [...]

Google has just rolled out a new feature for its startpage iGoogle – the canvas views from some of its most popular gadgets and full reading views for feeds. For those not in the loop, Google Reader and iGoogle are almost the same product.  Google Reader is a feed aggregator which also supports some Google [...]

Realizing that everything on the web has become more “social” – that is social gaming, social shopping, social news and more, Yahoo has decided to join the “being social” bandwagon by introducing something to the Yahoo Profile service, well er, yeah Yahoo Profile just became more social or universal as Yahoo would like to put [...]

As a kid I used to always think that when my time on this fine planet came to an end, I wanted my remains sprinkled around Yankee Stadium.
Given the new stadium and all of the corporate greed surrounding the sport, you can strike that from the record.
Rather, I’d like the unfortunate event to pass like [...]