Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

The Review That Never Happened

It’s funny, I just read a press release for a new Web site that is trying to compete with CitySearch and other destination-review stops.  But I’ve decided against it.  Why?  Because after visiting the site, I was bombarded with ads.
You deserve better, dear reader.
So the site is not getting mentioned on Rotorblog, but allow this [...]

CitySpeek Takes on Twitter with Integrated Video

Twitter is good and nice, but what if  something better comes out? Will you abandon Twitter and start building your microblogging clout all over again? Well, you might as well try the new service first before even thinking of abandoning your Twitter followers. After it didn’t take you overnight to build your current hugh Twitter [...]

Nine Social Music Sites that Let You Listen, Share and Enjoy Music

Social music sites are not really that big compared to other niche social networking sites. Well, it is understandable since the restriction on music access is quite limiting social media fanatics to share and make their music files available for sharing on the web. The best that we all can do is create a playlists [...]

ScreenToaster 2.0 Offers Screencasting in the Clouds

The first time I came across new screencasting service, ScreenToaster 2.0 a couple of weeks ago it was still in private, by-invitation-only beta mode. Although I was able to get an invite, unfortunately I wasn’t able to test it out during the lack of time. Anyway, ScreenToaster 2.0 has just announced that it is now [...]

Discover New Books and New People

Reading Trails offers a forum for passionate and enthusiastic readers a way to communicate with each other and to learn more about commonalities between books.
The trails are books that are linked by certain shared qualities and the trails are created by the users within the community. Some example trails are books to read before you [...]

Find Tickets With Ticket Predator

Ticket Predator is a Website dedicated to finding the best deals for sports, concerts and theater tickets in the United States and Canada. It is a search engine that scours the Internet for all the best prices on these types of tickets.

Your Online Safe Deposit Box

As a kid, I remember several trips with my mom to the safe deposit box.  It was a security-escorted trip through brightly-lit and narrow hallways.  Eventually, the journey ended in front of a tiny gold box.
What was in there?
At the time I pictured bars of gold, treasure maps, and secret codes.  It wasn’t until years [...]

Resize Images on the Fly

Resizing images is one of the simpler tasks Web users are often faced with.  Whether it’s a photo we’d like to shrink so we can e-mail it to a friend, or something that needs to be resized for a blog, there are many ways to do it – but none as simple as ResizeImage.

TipsBase Lets You Share Tips, Tricks and Advice

We all agree that social networking wouldn’t be as big as it is right now if not for the people, us who partake of what these social networking sites has to offer. And through our participation on various social networking activities, we partake in the creation of knowledge. But unfortunately those social networking sites do [...]

Reading Trails Makes it Easier to Find Books to Read

Libraries are so long gone with the advent of social media sites catering to books and reading. And that’s coming from a Library Science School graduate like me. Hopefully, my college friends and instructors will not chanced upon this post and crucify me for stating what most librarians refuse to admit. But how can [...]

Finish Your Masterpiece With Minimum Noise

And the list for online work continues! MinimumNoise.com allows individuals that sing, play instruments, or even just have audio production skills to find freelance work. This website hooks you up to people who need your skills. Or vice versa, if you need to add drums to your music, it allows you to post a request [...]

Directory of Twitter Apps

With the many third-party Twitter applications/plug-ins that are coming out, maybe it’s time to have a Twitter Apps Store. Or at least an online directory of these applications would be more useful. Actually, there are already three that we know of, and the most recent of which to come out is Twitdom – the Twitter [...]