December 30, 2008

News Sharing With Everyone #5

Mar.Com: The Techmeme Like For Marketing And Communication

Stumbled upon the freshly launched Mar.Com, dubbed a ‘Techmeme for Marketing and Communication’ by co-creator Giovanni Gallucci on Twitter. It’s essentially an aggregation and filtering service for news related to advertising, digital marketing, search engine optimization, etc. where users can also submit events and jobs related to those topics....

Twithority: Another Twitter Search Engine

As bloggers continue to debate the finer points of nothing, yet another entrepreneur has gone out and just built a filtered search engine for Twitter. A couple of days ago Twitority launched (although it appears to be down now). Today, it’s Twithority, by the same guys at Tsavo that created Daymix....

TipsBase: Share Tips And Tricks About Anything

TipsBase is a new social network centered around sharing tips and tricks about a wide variety of topics, counting on user-generated content to populate the community site with interesting tidbits on why and how to do (or not do) certain things. The team behind the website likened it to a ‘YouTube for tips’, but that’s quite the overstatement....

Zigtag: Semantic Tagging Service Finally Launches

Zigtag, a service that promised to “transform how people search, save and share knowledge & information.” Now, after a nine-month private beta, this semantic tagging service has finally launched. But is Zigtag’s bookmarking tool intelligent enough for 2009?...

Open Knowledge Sharing for Web

OpenKnowledge program is a smart toolkit designed to unlock the hidden resources of the web that can’t be accessed by web sites and browsers alone. With a small, downloadable piece of Java code, users can coordinate and share information with each other more directly than through traditional means....

Twitority refines Twitter search

Twitority, the new alternative to Twitter’s own search engine, is a brilliant idea. Or an incredibly stupid one. It depends on what you are looking for....

Voicetag Brings Voicemail To Facebook

There is a new app on Facebook called Voicetag that lets you send voicemail messages to individuals or groups. This is not the first such app on Facebook (see Voicemail or TringMe), but it works with regular phones and incorporates SMS messages....

Tweebay: The eBay Of Twitter

Paul Rawlings, a developer in the UK, launched Tweebay on Christmas Day, a classifieds listings service for Twitter. You use your Twitter account to buy and sell stuff (perfect for those unwanted holiday gifts)....

Favo: A New Hot Bookmark Manager for 2009?

A commenter on the post hinted that a service called Favo may be it. Curious, we went to check it out. Well, Favo may not be the social tool we were dreaming of, but by all appearances, it does look like something we want to try....

Rate, Tag And Categorize Your Twitter Friends With TwitTangle

Another day, another Twitter related application launches. This time around it’s TwitTangle, a service that pulls information about your followers from the Twitter API and enables you to put a layer on top by rating and tagging them, and also lets you categorize them in groups. Looks like something Scoble could use.

December 30, 2008

News Sharing With Everyone #4

Hybrid Blu-Ray / DVD Disc Announced

The new media has a total storage capacity of 33.5GB and is compatible with existing DVD and Blu-ray players. The biggest advantage of the new media is backward compatibility - you can play it on your DVD or Blu-ray player....

Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008

The iPhone truely reached a mainstream audience in 2008, when the 3G iPhone was launched to much acclaim in July. But more significant than the phone itself was the simultaneous launch of the Apple App Store....

Krunchd: Another URL Shortener

Now, a new URL shortener called Krunchd has done just that, by providing a feature that has less to do with shortening URLs and more to do with how we communicate with URLs on a regular basis....

Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008

ChaCha, as a search tool, is human-powered, general, and mobile. There is no website, no search box, and no page witih a list of ten links. To use ChaCha, simply call 1-800-2ChaCha (1-800-224-2242) in the US, or send a text to 242242. When you call, leave your query just as you would any other voice-mail message, and hang up....

Google Image Search Gets More Specific

Google Image Search remains one of the most comprehensive imagery resources available. But the sheer amount of imagery that the site indexes creates a problem. More of than not, Google Image Search gets you close to what you’re seeking, but it doesn’t really help you find exactly what you’re looking for....

Meebo Access to Facebook and MySpace IM

Meebo just got a lot more interesting, adding support for both Facebook and MySpace’s instant messaging programs. That means you can now use the service to sign into all of the major IM networks (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) simultaneously, plus the social network of your choice, essentially giving you a universal buddy list that you can access...

5 international social networks showcase!

Facebook and MySpace may reign supreme in North America, but we can’t forget that they don’t control every country in the world. Simply put, people from around the globe have different tastes and the major U.S. networks barely capture relevant market share in some countries....

BackType Launches Google Alerts For Blog Comments

BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream....

XING Acquires Socialmedian

Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than 6 million business users....

Jaxtr launches free international calling program

VoIP service Jaxtr has a new feature called FreeConnect that lets users make free international phone calls. It works by having both parties call in to local access numbers, then connecting the call via VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol)....

December 30, 2008

News Sharing With Everyone #3

Snackr Opens Beta Now

Snackr, an Adobe Air based RSS ticker that provides a scrolling readout of all the latest information from your favorite feeds. It’s as riveting as it is useful. Now, you could have the chance to help influence where Snackr goes in the future by joining the Snackr beta program....

Disqus now offers Facebook Connect log-in

Universal comment add-on system Disqus is the latest company to pledge allegiance to Facebook’s Connect platform. Users will soon be able log in to comment on Disqus-powered blog posts with their Facebook ID. Meanwhile these comments can be pushed back to the user’s Facebook news feed, completing the circle....

Wuala’s Free 1GB Social Storage

Today, Wuala released a major update of its platform. Until today, you had to use Wuala’s desktop application to use the service and access your files. Now, however, you can also use a web interface to access Wuala. Wuala also implemented an API that will allow developers to to hook into Wuala’s storage services...

Stickam API: Build Your Own Live Video Site

Stickam, a live video streaming service that competes with the likes of Justin.tv and Ustream.tv, is releasing a new API that effectively allows anyone to build their own streaming video startup with a minimal amount of effort. The service is normally pay-as-you-go, but the first 100 users to sign up will be able to try it out for free...

Remindr: Ruthlessly Hassle Yourself to Get Things Done

You’ve got a lot going on. And sometimes, no matter how many sticky notes you slap on your monitor, phone messages you leave for yourself, or pseudo meetings you put on your calendar, you still forget some very important things you need to do....

20 Nice WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins

WordPress 2.7 has finally hit, and the first thought on most people’s minds might be, “Will my favorite plugin work with it?” What follows is a list of over 20 great plugins that have already shown to work with 2.7 without any problems....

Twitnlogs: Twitter Blogs

You love Twitter, but you find its short form messages a little restricting? Or perhaps you want to add images and videos to your Tweets? TwitBlogs, which just went live in alpha, could solve all your problems....

Microsoft Open Source Blogging Platform - Oxite

Today, Microsoft released an alpha version of its own open source content management system, Oxite. The source code for the software is available under the Microsoft Public License. While Microsoft mostly describes Oxite as a blogging platform, the Oxite team also points out that you could use it as a content management system...

Producteev Launches Group Task Management

Imagine Netvibes for group project management and you get a sense of Producteev, a bootsrapped startup that launches at the LeWeb conference today. The first 500 people to request a code here will receive invites....

TVLoop.com: Where TV Meets Social Networking

If you’re an avid Facebook user and TV aficionado, you’ve probably heard of Watercooler’s TVLoop. It’s a Facebook application that brings full TV episodes of many popular shows directly to your Facebook profile; recently, Watercooler has teamed up with Hulu to extend their offering to 40 new shows, including ER, One Tree Hill, and others....

December 30, 2008

News Sharing With Everyone #2

ReCAPTCHA Introduces Enhanced Audio CAPTCHAs

The reCAPTCHA service, which is based at Carnegie Mellon University, is not only an easy way to keep spammers away from your web sites, but is also an interesting experiment in harnessing human intelligence to transcribe old texts....

BlogRize Relaunches!

When BlogRize, a blog community and aggregator, first launched earlier this year, we gave it a very positive review. BlogRize is an interesting mix between Digg, Techmeme, and ReadBurner, though with a stronger emphasis on individual communities around blogs and recommendations....

ShoutEm: Create Your Own MicroBlogging Community

Shout’Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like Pownce. Networks on Shout’Em are “lightweight social networks”.

uClassify: Make Your Own Text Classifiers

Ever wanted to know the language of a Web site? Or whether the text within it is considered spam? Well, it’s a lot easier since the launch of uClassify, the free Web service and API out of Sweden that lets you create and train your own text classifiers....

Qitera: Another Social Bookmarking Services

Earlier this year, we featured a stealth startup called Qitera, which just launched publically today. At its core, Qitera is a social bookmarking service, but unlike most of its competitors, Qitera can not only save a screenshot of the site, but also the full text of every web page you bookmark, including those hidden behind paywalls....

Google Reader Get New Style And Makeover

Google Reader has just launched a major redesign to its interface, addressing many of the top concerns of users of the popular RSS reader....

.Tel: A New Top Level Domain

.TEL, one of a stream of new top level domain names approved by the quasi-governmental Los Angeles-based ICANN, will go on sale shortly. Like other domain name types, you’ll be able to buy your .TEL at your favorite domain name registrar (eNom, Godaddy, Network Solutions, Register.com, etc.).

Windows Live SkyDrive Boosts Storage to 25 GB

Today, Microsoft is rolling out some of the sweeping changes to Windows Live it announced two weeks ago. Windows Live seems to be gradually replacing MSN as Microsoft’s central hub for everything you do on the Web.....

PeopleBrowsr: A Visual Dashboard For Your Online Identities

Imagine TweetDeck as an online application. Now imagine that you could use its paneled dashboard interface to keep tabs on your other online identities, too. With PeopleBrowsr, you can....

OpenID Management Comes to Flock

MySpace, Flock and Vidoop have developed OpenID for Flock. I’ll skip the talk about standards which you don’t care about, cut to the chase and tell you what it does.....

December 30, 2008

News Sharing With Everyone #1

Vlingo Launches iPhone Voice Control

Some time ago Google introduced voice search for the iPhone; now, Vlingo ups the ante with an application that allows you to search the web, use Google Maps, dial phone numbers as well as update your Twitter and Facebook account, all by speaking into the phone.....

Pownce To Shut Down

Another one bites the dust? Pownce, a would-be Twitter rival that was heavily hyped due to the involvement of Digg co-founder Kevin Rose, is closing its doors in two weeks....

Kontain Launches A New Blogging Service

Kontain. It’s designed for non-technical users, and it’s easy to use and very good-looking. I don’t think I’ve seen an easier platform for beginning bloggers, in fact. Everything on the site is clear and simple. But there’s a downside....

Power.com: The Social Inter-Networking

Power.com announced its global launch with a mighty claim: “Our platform will break down the boundaries between social sites and allow users to synchronize their logins, content, messages and friends.”....

Search.io: More Quickly Search Engine!

While the majority of our day-to-day searches are easily handled by our favorite search engine, there are always those intensive searches that have you jumping from site to site - or opening a series of tabs - to find a good cross-section of information on a given topic....

Referrer Detector For WordPress

Many bloggers and website owners like to greet visitors coming from specific websites with a tailored message. There are many plugins that will make this for you on WordPress, but a cool one that I came across recently is called Referrer Detector....

TwitBacks: Customized Your Twitter Background

TwitBacks is looking to make those same rich profiles available to everyone. It only took me a few minutes to pimp out my Twitter profile with my very own custom background....

Pyjamas: Build Python’s AJAX Apps

According to the Pyjamas website, many people, when discovering Google Web Toolkit wonder why they can’t use Python instead of Java. With Pyjamas, this is now possible.....

Alexa Web Search Shut Down Service

Amazon is using the Thanksgiving break to quietly release some bad news - they’re shutting down one of its web services - Alexa Web Search. The service, which we first covered way back in 2006, is already closed to new customers, and existing users have until January 26, 2009 to move on to something else....

Koornk: Another Clone Of Twitter

There are a lot of Twitter clones out there, often built by companies outside the US trying to steal the company’s thunder by creating local communities with a translated application, something the San Francisco startup has focused little on so far....

Kaltura Adds Video Management To Your WordPress Blog

Kaltura is the first open source video platform for online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration. Recently, they released the interactive video plugin for Wordpress blog that allows you to add interactive video capabilities to your blog.....

November 24, 2008

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Pixlr: The Free Online Image Editor

Pixlr is a free online image editing application that enables users to create or edit an image from a hard drive or URL in your browser. This is a flash based application that loads in seconds and does not slow down when editing multiple images even with thousands of users online at once. It is built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plug in (get flash) to get it to work....

OpenCart: Open-Source PHP-Based Online Shopping Cart System

OpenCart is an open-source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost....

November 22, 2008

DataZilla Update 22 Nov 2008

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Google Friend Connect Open Beta Coming Soon?

Just about half a year ago, Google announced a limited beta of Friend Connect, which allows site owners to display OpenSocial based gadgets on their sites and site visitors to sign in to these social gadgets with their OpenID, AIM, Yahoo, or Google accounts.....

iPhone 2.2 Now Available

The calendar now reads November 21st and, just as expected, iPhone firmware 2.2 has been released to the masses......

TweetStalk in Private Beta

A new site called TweetStalk is in private beta. It allows you to “follow” Twitter users without them knowing you are doing it (Twitter tells you when someone new has subscribed to your data). It’s all through a Firefox Add-On and appears to modify the Twitter page itself via Greasemonkey or otherwise....

Geodesic Takes Aim At SMS With Mundu IM

Although text messaging is still one of the favorite pastimes for children and adults alike, software firm Geodesic believes that mobile instant messaging will cannibalize SMS and become the de facto form of communication through cell phones, going forward....

Ziibii: iPhone RSS With A Twist

It isn’t so much the technology behind Zumobi’s free app Ziibii that refreshes RSS on the iPhone and iPod touch as it is its presentation. Ziibii, which means ‘river’ in Algonquin*, extends the metaphor to depict posts from your various RSS feeds as rafts floating along a stream of information....

Get Your Twitter Profile’s Worth At TweetValue

Following the controversy surrounding Twitterank, TweetValue assigns a dollar value to your Twitter profile. While the site does not disclose how this value is calculated, it does give a message that reads, “The value is calculated with a Ph.D. algorithm that is based on the public information available on your Twitter profile.”...

November 20, 2008

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Tweetag: Twitter Tag-Based Search Engine

Enter Tweetag, a brand new way to search Twitter, or ‘browse the Twittosphere’ as they put it. The app, like most Twitter-related applications, is fairly simple: you enter a tag, and Tweetag will show public Twitter messages that contain that particular keyword, but more interestingly also a list of other tags that are related to it....

Gmail Get Themes Now!

Gmail’s interface was revolutionary when it was first released, but the design was a bit too plain for a lot of users. After a short while, users started to develop Greasemonkey scripts and Firefox plugins that could bring some more excitement to the standard Gmail theme....

November 19, 2008

DataZilla Update 19 Nov 2008

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Citysearch More Social Now!

Citysearch, the popular local restaurant and shopping guide, announced a new beta version of its service tonight. The new version provides a better local search experience, with the ability to search specific neighborhoods instead of just metropolitan areas....

Shizzow: Simple And Social Friend Finder

Where is that friend of mine? Who else likes to go there? Where is that place on the map? It’s simple, useful questions like this that location based social network Shizzow aims to answer and the service just opened up today....

Cookstr Helps You Find A Secret Recipes

Cookstr is launching a website later tonight at a press event in New York City that takes a different route than all the cluttered and user-generated content sites out there: it’s all about the top chefs and cookbook authors, baby....

GlamApps: Glam Media’s Application Platform

Glam Media has launched its application platform, called Glam Apps Atako, to the public. The platform was originally unveiled in July, and has remained in private beta until now....

Yahoo Makes BrowserPlus Open Source

BrowserPlus and Gears are aimed at improving browsers’ native abilities so Web applications can better match those running natively on a computer’s operating system, and Gears already is open-source software.....

FeedRinse: Make A Simple And User Friendly RSS Feed

Feed Rinse is a super simple and user-friendly way to tweak RSS feeds before subscribing to them in your favorite reader tool.....

StumbleUpon Adds More Partner Sites

StumbleUpon, an online discovery site that competes with Digg, Mixx, and Reddit, said Tuesday it has expanded its partner program to include Funny Or Die, Atom, Scientific American, and 5min.com.....

November 18, 2008

DataZilla Update 18 Nov 2008

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