Web-based RSS feed aggregator Spreed is casual reading’s worst enemy. A speed-reader extraordinaire like Robert Scoble might enjoy it as a way to dig through even more stories a day, but at its heart it’s kind of like visiting an aquarium with one of those moving sidewalks; you’re still seeing what you came there to […]
On Thursday, mobile browser start-up Skyfire announced the opening of a private beta for the Symbian Series 60 (S60) platform–nearly a week after a Symbian site busted the news.
Skyfire is positioned as a resource-light browser that relies on Web servers to deliver a desktop browsing experience. I covered Skyfire soon after its initial Windows Mobile […]
The fun browser add-on PicLens has incorporated YouTube and Amazon.com into the short but hopefully soon-to-grow list of supported Web sites. Compatible with Firefox on Windows and Mac, Internet Explorer, and Safari, PicLens recreates your surfing experience with a futuristic graphical display.
PicLens now supports searches on YouTube and Amazon.com.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
As Rafe talked about in […]
GoAnimate is browser based animation studio. It lets you build multi-scene animated creations, complete with support for music, transitions, and user-uploaded page elements. I spent most of this morning playing around with it and the results are about on par with what you’d find on one of those animated greeting cards.
Like most video editing applications […]
Social news site Digg just posted some preliminary results from the site activity since launching its recommendation engine last month. According to a post on the official Digg blog from engine creator Anton Kast, all-around voting on the site has gone up by 40 percent since launch.
Other numbers that have gone up include commenting […]
Social news site Digg just posted some preliminary results from the site activity since launching its recommendation engine last month. According to a post on the official Digg blog from engine creator Anton Kast, all around voting on the site has gone up by an additional 40% since launch.
Other numbers that have gone up […]
Yahoo has revamped Delicious, saying the site for storing, describing, and sharing Web site bookmarks is faster, easier to use, and has better search abilities.
The updated look to Yahoo's Delicious Web site for storing, searching, tagging, and sharing bookmarks. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Yahoo)
The speedup comes from a new server system that’s snappier and more reliable, […]
Got questions about Web 2.0 and Web apps? So do I! But nonetheless I will do my best to answer your questions on the best online applications for various tasks, on privacy, infrastructure, and any other Web 2.0 topic you want to throw my way in today’s live Ask The Editors session.
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In March, Radar Networks launched Twine, an application that organizes information and connects people, places, companies, products, Web pages, videos, and photos. Along with Metaweb’s Freebase, Powerset (sold to Microsoft), Hakia, Reuters’ Calias, AdaptiveBlue and a few other start-ups, Radar Networks is trying to crack the code on building a piece of the semantic Web. […]
Online storage provider Drop.io has a cool new feature for its users today, allowing them to tap into Twitter to post updates every time they add files to one of their storage folders. Drop.io’s architecture is based around folders (called “drops”) so after plugging in your Twitter log-in to any specific drop it will broadcast […]
Recent rumors of Intel employees signing up for Facebook accounts en masse might not have been totally unfounded: Facebook has chosen to use Intel’s Xeon 5400 processor-based servers to deal with its hardware and software demands. Additionally, the two companies have signed an agreement so that Intel can continue to assess how Facebook can stay […]
Google Street View has been given approval to drive on the other side of the street on the other side of the pond.
The company’s controversial photo-mapping tool has gotten the green light from the U.K.’s privacy watchdog group. Street View uses special vehicles with panoramic cameras to snap pictures of streets. It then uses the […]
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, who left the Yahoo-acquired company in June, has a new gig. She posted on her blog on Wednesday that she’ll be joining a stealthy New York-based start-up, Hunch, as “Chief Product Officer, board member, and resident Facebook app skeptic.”
So what is Hunch? That’s under the radar, but we’re hearing from a […]
The email uses the phrase ‘FBI vs. Facebook’ in its subject line and contains a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new email campaign being used by the creators…
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Socialmedian is a new Web 2.0 conversation service that does a decent job of repackaging concepts that users of Digg and Twitter will find familiar. I fear it’s a bit too similar to other existing services to break into the mainstream, but there are some concepts and experiments on the site that make it work, […]
When I talked to Opposing Views CEO Russell Fine in preparation for my review of the site a week ago, I asked him if he honestly thought that his service, which recruits experts from both sides of contentious issues, would actually change anyone’s mind. The question comes from my observation that the profusion of contemporary […]
In the high school cafeteria of Facebook apps, Scrabulous is like that girl who gets in trouble for showing too much skin, only to throw on a hoodie and be let back into the principal’s good graces. Sort of. The game has effectively returned, but with a redesigned board, a few original play options, a […]
Adobe just updated its Photoshop Express service with a handful of relatively unexciting but useful new features. The most important one is the inclusion of printing through Shutterfly, making it easier to take edited photos and get them printed either for yourself or to send as gifts. Previously you’d have to pull down the photos […]
Got questions about Web 2.0 and Web apps? So do I! But nonetheless I will do my best to answer your questions on the best online applications for various tasks, on privacy, infrastructure, and any other Web 2.0 topic you want to throw my way in tomorrow’s live Ask The Editors session.
Ask the Editors is […]
Online travel communications retailer Telestial has just launched Travel Journal, an online service that automatically creates an online trip journal based on the location of the user’s phone. Using a special SIM card that triangulates the user’s location using cell phone towers, Travel Journal automatically updates in more than 100 countries.
Travel Journal plots the traveler's […]
