Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

FriendFeed Gives Us Another Reason to Procastinate More – Live Feed

Here are some more reason to slack on our day job, procastinate and enjoy what our Friendfeed friend’s are doing in real time. Friendfeed has just rolled out a new feature which gives us real-time view of our Friendfeed friends’ updates. Utilizing a technique that it calls “long polling” which practically eliminates to send a [...]

Facebook Photos Hits the 10 Billion Mark

Wow! 10 billion photos uploaded on Facebook is certainly a lot considering that it is not really a photo uploading site per se but rather a social networking site. Facebook’s Engineering Blog reported that there are now over 10 billion photos uploaded on the site. According to Caroline McCarthy of CNET.News’ those figures are more [...]

Tip’d Brings a Digg-Like Social Bookmarking Tool to the Financial World

There are many startups and web service which tried to emulate Digg’s structure, platform and overall form but many failed while some succeed to live another day until such time that users finally realize that they need to go back to using Digg. Tip’d which describes itself as a community for financial news, ideas and [...]

Meebo Gets More Partners

Instant Messaging and online communications client Meebo has some great news to spread. Hot on the heels of reaching around 72.9 million users, with around 26.2 million of which are US based, as reported by comScore, Meebo is also announcing that they have reached partnership agreement with more web-based services.

VidEngage.com Offers Social Networking with Video

Although YouTube is a pretty powerful video uploading and sharing site, it however lacks some social networking features. Despite the great amount of content uploaded and shared on its site, YouTube remains to be just like that – a video uploading and sharing site with some dash of social networking features. New social networking site [...]

Kidzui Launches a Kid-Friendly Social Networking Feature and a Homework Helper

Remember the kid-friendly website that we featured not so long ago called Kidzui? Well, the site has just introduced some social networking-related features plus a Homework Helper service as well. This new features come hot in the heels of the first-ever WiredTrust Best Practice seal for a children’s site.

Ning Embraces OpenSocial

Ning.com, a web tool/application/service which allows you to create your own social network has been around for quite some time now. Despite the lack of publicity and hype and too much media coverage, Ning managed to sustain itself and has gradually build-up a large userbase. Well, what can you expect from a web service such [...]

Mahalo Gets a News Ticker, Wants to Liveblog the World

Those who know Jason Calacanis would certainly be aware of Mahalo, his human-powered search engine. For quite sometime now, Mahalo has been struggling to make it big in the search engine market. What if you are proposing a new way of searchign the web and up against industry giants such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft? [...]

Netvibes Enters the Facebook World

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 [...]

Yahoo! Calendar Gets a Site Refresh

I’ve been wanting to use web-based calendar services but never really had the patience and perseverance to schedule my day-to-day activities. The calendar function of my mobile phone was more than enough for my scheduling needs.  Either I’m one in a million who never really used web calendar, or I’m one of the millions of [...]

YouTube Offers Up Click-to-Buy Service on Video

For all of you avid YouTube users who often encounter a great soundtrack on YouTube videos they’ve watched and want to get a copy of those music files, the number one video sharing site is offering a new service called Click-to-Buy. This new service will help you in getting soundtracks of video games, or soundtrack [...]

Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve – Web 2.0 Style

Ever feel that you need to get something off your chest, or else you’ll explode – or worse yet – implode?  Assuming that it’s something you don’t want to share with someone you know, and the confessional is  simply not an option, you might want to check into Peegly.
It’s sort of like Twitter for your [...]