Add Blog Affiliates and Content With One Click

triggitWouldn’t it be nice if you could add place media and ads on your Web site without having to embed code, FTP software or mess around with HTML? Continue reading: Add Blog Affiliates and Content With One Click

SnapFoo Lets You Photo Blog in 3 Ways

snapfoo_logo.jpgIf you have been wanting to start your own photo blog without the hassles of setting up your own domain, blog site and learning about blogging platforms, you’re best bet would be new photo blogging / mobile blogging platform SnapFoo. SnapFoo founders who are self-proclaimed geeks describe their platform as a photo blog or moblog. It is pretty nifty way of starting your way into photo blogging or to put it in a simple way, sharing your photos to your friends and social networks. Continue reading: SnapFoo Lets You Photo Blog in 3 Ways

2008: Year of the Video Model?

vsmIf you’re a professional Web scout, you’ve probably already stumbled across a burgeoning trend: Web sites that “welcome” you by having – to quote Zoolander – a ‘really, really, really good looking person’ introduce the site. Continue reading: 2008: Year of the Video Model?

Connect with Your Gaia Friends via Facebook

gaia_logo_indexpage.gifFacebook is too popular of a social networking site that it has become the mantra of web entities to develop a tool to integrate their web services/products into the Facebook universe. Facebook has become web 2.0’s Google. Everybody wants to have a piece of Facebook’s growing popularity. And what do you know, even a virtual hang out place such as popular Gaia online has joined the Facebook bandwagon. Continue reading: Connect with Your Gaia Friends via Facebook

The Opposite of Web 2.0: Jury Duty

gavelSince this blog is all about Web 2.0 and online communications, I have a question I’d like to ask our readers:

How does jury duty work in your neck of the woods? Continue reading: The Opposite of Web 2.0: Jury Duty

Live Blogging via Cover It Live

coveritlive.jpgIf you are looking for a fast and efficient way of covering special events or a simple tool for blogging, be it posting ideas, images, videos about current events, you’d be better off with CoverItLive (CIL). CIL took the concept of instant messaging and combined it with the idea that an informed, smart writer could make a live blog worth watching.

CIL is innovative web based software that takes live blogging to a new level. Blog postings/updates/commentaries are published in real time like instant messaging. It is an easy-to-use tool that publishes contents using one-click publishing. Continue reading: Live Blogging via Cover It Live

Uncovering a Secret Social Network

xobniMy life at work has me living on Microsoft Outlook. Me and 350 million other people.  There are plenty of productivity enhancements that you can download to optimize your Outlook experience.  None have excited me like Xobni, software that generates profiles for every person you have had e-mail correspondence with. Continue reading: Uncovering a Secret Social Network

Instructional Videos and Quizzes on Neulio

neulioWhat do you want to learn today? That’s the question Neulio, a new Website featuring user-generated training content, wants the answer to.The free video host is targeting the ever-growing “how-to” segment. What sets the site apart is users’ ability to break their lessons or courses into parts. Of course you can also rate, share, tag and comment on videos. There is also an integrated quiz builder that will allow you to ask viewers to participate in a quiz after the video is complete. I was never good at tests, but this is a great way to see if you’ve retained what you have learned. Continue reading: Instructional Videos and Quizzes on Neulio

Snockle Tries to Revolutionize the Mobile Social Messaging World

snockle.jpgIn this day of social networking revolution and IT startups sprawling like mushrooms on the web, the only way you could get notice is to come up with a killer startup with killer sounding name. Never mind if the name doesn’t mean anything, you can easily cook up a new meaning for it. Such is the case of mobile social messaging site Snockles – which as per the site’s definition is a “message that you post on your own “Snockline” (there goes another word invention). Continue reading: Snockle Tries to Revolutionize the Mobile Social Messaging World

5 Reasons Why Next2Friends is not Your Usual Social Networking Platform

next2friends.jpgWith the slew of social networking sites available on the web today, it is breather to encounter a new startup which diverts from the different route that these social sites usually takes. And it is these unique features which will make or break that social networking sites. For Next2Friends, a new communication platform and mobile based social networking experience, the reasons come not just in one but five reasons why we cannot call it as your usual social networking site. Continue reading: 5 Reasons Why Next2Friends is not Your Usual Social Networking Platform

Facebook to Launch Profile Clean-Up Tool

facebook clean-upSo many Facebook applications, so little time.  Soon you’ll be able to reduce your eyestrain as Facebook plans to launch a “profile clean-up” tool.  Besides, no one wants another MySpace, right? Continue reading: Facebook to Launch Profile Clean-Up Tool

How To Create a Personal Mailing List on Gmail

gmail.gifIf you are using Gmail (who doesn’t anyway?) and want to communicate online to a large group of people with common interests as you, the normal thing to do is to create a Google Groups and invite them to join in. Although this is an effective tool for sending messages to your Gmail contacts, not everyone of your contacts may be open to subscribing to Google Groups. Continue reading: How To Create a Personal Mailing List on Gmail