BigNews: Ask’s take on Google News/Techmeme

Published at February 6, 2008   Filed Under Technology, Web 2.0   6 Comments  

In the last few days we have seen rumors about Ask.com working with Digg to create a white label Digg like site. The project is “BigNews” and is not a Digg clone but rather a Google News/Techmeme like news tracker.

Watch and Share Videos from your desktop

Published at February 5, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   0 Comments  

uvLayer is a new Adobe AIR application that allows you to watch and share videos with your friends. It is a nice way to watch videos on your desktop if you prefer that. uvLayer lets share the videos you are watching with your uvLayer friends or Facebook friends.
User interface of the application is visually [...]

Search Twitter in real time with Tweetscan

Published at February 3, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Tweetscan is useful web app for tracking twitter. Lot of people post tweets to twitter on latest happenings, breaking news etc. Suppose you want to keep up to date with Microsoft, Yahoo deal, you could search with these terms and see who is posting this and what’s new.
You can also search twitter by combining [...]

Sprout: Online Flash Widget Maker

Published at January 30, 2008   Filed Under Tools, Web 2.0   4 Comments  

Sprout is a new startup launched today At DEMO 2008. SproutBuilder is a WYSIWYG editor for creating flash widgets.
The tool is built on the flex platform and allows users to create flash widgets with easy drag and drop features.

Currently you can create photo slideshows, images, audio juke box and few other things. Video [...]

Your own Twitter with Prologue and Wordpress

Published at January 29, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0, Wordpress   2 Comments  

If you are a Twitter user you already know it is a good way to communicate with friends. Twitter is a good way to communicate but what if you can create your own twitter to use with your friends or for your organization. The folks at Automattic thought the same thing and released a wordpress [...]

Tweetmeme, techmeme clone for Twitter content

Published at January 28, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   0 Comments  

Tweetmeme tracks the popular links posted to twitter similar to techmeme does for tech blogs.
Tweetmeme tracks what content is posted to twitter and ranks the content based on how many users are posting or how popular is that among twitter crowd.
It can recognize the content as Blogs, videos, images and audio.
I don’t [...]

Batch Download Photos from SmugMug and others

Published at January 28, 2008   Filed Under Firefox, Tools, Web 2.0   2 Comments  

There is a security hole in SmugMug, discovered by Google Blogoscoped which allows you to view or even download private albums. SmugMug users can protect photos from public view by selecting private option, one would expect these won’t be viewable by public. But that is not the case, any one can view these photos by [...]

Put your face on Time magazine cover

Published at January 27, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   9 Comments  

Do you know that it is not hard to put your face on the cover of popular magazines like Time, Maxim, Vogue. Magmypic is a service that allows you to put your face on popular magazines, currently they support 12 magazines including Time, Maxim, Vogue, Fortune, Rolling Stone.
It’s completely free to design “fake magazine [...]

Schedule Meetings With ScheduleOnce

Published at January 27, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

ScheduleOnce is a simple web 2.0 service that helps you to schedule meetings with accuracy across all time zones.
You can specify time range and date range for your scheduled meeting. You need to specify your time zone while creating your schedule. You can give permission to suggest time zones by other invitees, or you [...]

Listen to news & blogs on your iPhone

Published at January 27, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Pimpmynews is a free social news site that converts text from news & blog posts to mp3 clips which you can listen in your iPod or iPhone.
If you are tired of reading news in the web or in your reader, this is a good option to listen to them instead of reading.
You can [...]