Have you ever wonder why some company starts following you as soon you are mentioning it’s name on Twitter? Or some user instantly follows you back if you start following to his tweets? These are techniques used by many to gain popularity on Twitter.
If you also want to use some Auto follow techniques this [...]

Aside from Twitter and Facebook, the next big thing in the social networking/web 2.0/social media world is Friendfeed. There was even a time when Friendfeed and Twitter have been pitted against each other. But for quite some time now, Friendfeed has been pretty silent while Twitter continues its rampage. Until now. It looks like [...]

Interestingly, no single web 2.0/social networking site have dominated the tech news scene this week. Yes, there was some occasional coverage about the regular biggies such as Facebook and Twitter. But those were minor news not enough to get the industry buzz.  So for a change, our weekly blog highlights would have several social networking [...]

Fearing that her daughter might be in danger from predators attacking innocent members of MySpace, Mary Kay Hoal created Yoursphere social network. Yoursphere offers a safe social networking site for kids and teens. How safe? How about getting an FTC endorsement for Privacy Vaults approval and parental consent requirement before members can join?

Tastemaker, now that’s a job! Imagine if you were paid for figuring out the next big thing?
While I have no clue what’s next in fashion (the return of baggy, pleated pants?) and no idea what popular culture will embrace next (could a Bachelorette reject be president?), I do have a pretty good [...]

Frankly, I’ve never used Apple’s Safari browser before. I kept on getting a prompt from the iTunes Store asking me to install Safari but I didn’t since I’m already using 3 browsers – IE8, Firefox and Google Chrome. I said don’t need another browser. When I read about the Apple announcement regarding Safari 4 Beta, [...]

What do you get if you combine Wink.com’s people search technology and Reunion.com’s more than 50 million userbase? – MyLife.com, a new people search technology offering an effective and efficient way for people to find and keep track of everyone related to them, including friends and business contacts. MyLife.com offers a database of over 750 [...]

You’ve heard the joke a thousand times: Remember when MTV used to play music videos?

As a child of the 90’s, I’ve always been a fan of the low budget music video. Insert grainy black and white effect HERE.

A new venture between Next New Networks and Verizon FiOS, 99DollarMusicVideos, hopes to connect the bridge between rookie artists and independent filmmakers. The site plans to release a new music video weekly and distribute it through YouTube and iTunes.

First the hard facts.  Boxee is a powerful software package that converts computers, Apple TVs and other popular products into media centers. It has been making it possible for users to watch Hulu video content on their TV since October last year. And Boxee users have loved this feature and was even gearing up to [...]

Magazines is dead! Long live the magazines!  A new photo-magazine style fashion site has been launched today. Dubbed FlipGloss, this fashion-inspired website features fashion, design, travel and other lifestyle photography culled from around the world.  The site is updated daily and will surely be loved by photography enthusiasts whose calling fall under the said niche.

With the recent “Miracle on the Hudson” and the crash of a flight in Buffalo, NY, it might not be the best tome to introduce you to Fly.com. Designed to help you find the cheapest flights from Point A to Point B, the search engine lets you book directly with your favorite airlines and [...]

Video streaming is so in today that a lot of online services have sprung up the web recently. These video streaming services either lets you broadcast an event, your performance, and everything else that could be captured by your web camera or camera phone. And yes we mean live streaming. Here are 10 live video [...]