Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

Halloween Costume Community

As a kid, choosing a Halloween costume was relatively simple.
He-Man or Skeletor?  G.I. Joe or The Ultimate Warrior?  Basically, any “cool,” larger-than-life action hero would do.
These days, with the amount of data available at everybody’s fingertips, polling the masses has become commonplace – even when choosing a Halloween costume.

Top Five Social Shopping Sites Worth Your Time

Among the most covered social networking niche are social shopping sites. These social networks promise to give you sound shopping tips and advices as well as great bargain hunts. In addition, they help in boosting online commerce as well. Here are five social shopping sites which we think are probably worth your time, especially now [...]

Red Karaoke Gets a Remake

You should have seen me a few Fridays ago. I brought the house down with a blazing renditions of Pearl Jam’s Black and New Kids on the Block’s Games. Oh, I wasn’t on stage anywhere. I was amongst friends in the basement of the local karaoke joint.
My musical aspirations are non-existent, but [...]

Imeem Site Redesign, Intros New Features Too

For those who are not aware, Imeem is another big social network aside from the big two MySpace and Facebook. It’s in the line of Tagged, Orkut and Bebo. Sadly we don’t really get to hear some buzz about them or anything coming from them. Until now, as Imeem joined the likes of Facebook, Friendfeed [...]

Listen to Voices From Around the World

A new Web site wants to give the world a voice, by allowing users to record audio tie it back to their geographical location.
Woices, which we’re guessing is named for ‘World Voices’ and not Elmer Fudd saying ‘voices,’ has a simple mantra:
“We firmly believe knowledge and wisdom is evenly distributed all over the world (not [...]

Facebook Finally Becomes a Social Networking Site

Aside from the new version of its iPhone application, Facebook has also did some minor retouching of its main site, i.e. Facebook.com. First thing first. If you want to see this “retouched” home page, make sure you sign out of Facebook.com first. Then go back to the site again and you will see the new [...]

DisFriends is a Social Network for Disney Fans

Disney fans from all over the world, ages 18+, will be glad to know that Disney has created its own niche social network which runs on three things – Meet, Mingle and Magic combined. A virtual place where people who have been captivated by Disney’s magic, DisFriends embodies the real Disney morale and dictum.

Twitter Wants to be More Useful

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 [...]

Socialbrowse Makes Web Browsing Social

Web browsing can be a lonely activity if you don’t share what you find in the web with friends, discuss what you’ve stumbled upon and find out about what your friends are browsing and discovering on the web. But Socialbrowse is hoping to change that by offering a service that lets you share and discuss [...]

The New York Times Goes Social Too

The New York Times is rolling out a new site feature called TimesPeople. NYT aims to make TimesPeople as a social network for Times readers. But before you think that TimesPeople will soon battle it out with top social network sites such as Facebook or MySpace, actually TimesPeople will not.

Glubble, A Social Networking Site for the Family

One of the main concerns of parents when they let their children surf the web to join social networking sites is how safe their children will be? There have been bad news about predators preying on innocent minds. Luring them into a trap which can lead to their exploitation. Thankfully, there are social networking sites [...]

24 Social Networking Site for Gamers

Gaming sites have been pretty much covered since decades ago. With the explosing of social networking sites, gamers were not spared and so we’ve seen the rise of social networks catering to gamers and the games they’ve played.  Some social networking sites for gamers are pretty cool and some are lame. Here 24 social gaming [...]