Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 3

Posted on June 18, 2008. Filed under: tech news, technology, web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Read the Part 1 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 1

Read the Part 2 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 2

RSS 2.0

SCHEDULING 2.0

SEARCH 2.0

SOFTWARE 2.0

STATS 2.0

TAGGING 2.0

TASK MANAGER 2.0

TEXT 2.0

TEXT2SPEECH 2.0

TIME MANAGEMENT 2.0

  • TikTrac – Time management. tiktrac.com/

TRACK & TRACE 2.0

  • Packagemapper – Track your package on a map. packagemapper.com/

VIDEO 2.0

VOICE2MAIL 2.0

VOICEMAIL 2.0

WEB2FEED 2.0

  • Feed43 – Web page & blog 2 rss. feed43.com/
  • Feedtier – Web page & blog 2 rss. feedtier.somee.com/

WI-FI 2.0

WIKIS 2.0

WISHLIST 2.0

WORD 2.0

WRITE 2.0

Read the Part 1 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 1

Read the Part 2 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 2

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Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 2

Posted on June 18, 2008. Filed under: tech news, technology, web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Read the Part 1 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 1

Read the Part 3 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 3

FUN 2.0

GAMBLING 2.0

GAMES 2.0

HOSTING 2.0

IDENTITY 2.0

IMAGES 2.0

IMAGING 2.0

JOBS 2.0

KNOWLEDGE 2.0

LISTS 2.0

MAPPING 2.0

MARKETING 2.0

MEMO 2.0

MULTIMEDIA 2.0

NEWS 2.0

OFFICE 2.0

OS 2.0

OUTLOOK 2.0

PERSONAL MANUFACTURING 2.0

  • Ogle – Capture, re-use & 3D print 3D data. ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

POLLS 2.0

PORTAL 2.0

POWERPOINT 2.0

PROJECTS 2.0

PUBLISHING 2.0

READ 2.0

Read the Part 1 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 1

Read the Part 3 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 3

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Review: Yoono: Social Life aggregator

Posted on May 5, 2008. Filed under: blogging, internet, social networking, tech news | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

In this social networking tools clutter, it is a pain to sift through the information that you really “may” care for. A few weeks back, I was ranting off on why I will not use twitter. And then I may feel a lot older when I get into the FB or Myspace forums. LinkedIn still remains my favorite, and the one I find most useful in my professional capacity.

Anyway, I digress. Two recent posts (on webware and techcrunch) made me look at this browser plugin called Yoono, for discovering and sharing Web content and to help track your friends’ activities. The tool integrates with several popular social networks and microblogging services including Twitter, letting you access and interact with the communities of all of them in one place.

While you are surfing, Yoono instantly suggests what others have discovered: websites, people and articles. You can create a rich scrapbook of your favorite stuff with the new “Buzz It!” feature, one-click grab and share videos, photos and texts from any web page. Yoono keeps your scrapbook and original Firefox bookmarks synchronized across your computers.

In a nutshell: Yoono is a browser sidebar that will aggregate your social network upates and allow you to update all statuses at once. In addition, while you surf, Yoono displays a list of other web pages that are “people-rated” – others have classified them in their favorites. You can also find other users who have a particular web page in their favorites.

See a demo:

If you’re an avid Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr user, they you’ll need to download this free app to manage your accounts. Check out Yoono.com, but watch the video below first to see what it can do for you (source: techiediva).

The UI is really neat and clean, looks impressive. It is also impressive how much has been packed into a plugin. I am sure designing such an app is a challenge – whom to target, what features to bring in, what to leave out. Overall, I am quite impressed. I may end up actually using it!

Users can now view related pictures, music, and videos from pages they’re on. (Credit: CNET Networks)

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Identity theft on Facebook: Rogue FB App, Back Once More

Posted on May 2, 2008. Filed under: internet, social networking, technology | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

In January, everything went a little crazy because of a Facebook application that (if you believed the hype) force installed Zango, hijacked your PC, set fire to your house, killed your pets…..well, you get the idea. In actual fact, the truth of the matter was a little more convoluted. All I could see was that this application opened up a popup, which (every now and again) would just happen to be an advert for Zango. Hardly Earth shattering, but of course it did switch people on to the fact that they needed to be careful which applications they gave permission to access their data while on Facebook.

Well, a few months on and it looks like the BBC had a coder create an application (in three hours or less) that could swipe a whole pile of data on both you and your friends, before mailing it back home to base. I can’t stress enough – when it comes to social networking sites, NEVER post anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable posting on an otherwise open and accessible site such as your blog, personal website, whatever. I have pages on Myspace, Facebook, Orkut and a whole bunch of others – and there is NOTHING on them that you couldn’t find elsewhere. There is no hidden treasure trove of data to mine, and so I don’t care what happens to it because it’s all out there in the public domain anyway. This is what I’ve been telling people for the longest time, and it works.

The hacker in this case has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have permission to ‘walk the tree’ of your friend contact details, letting the apps do things like populate the list of people for you to forward to, when you choose to “forward this and see what happens.”

We have discovered a way to steal the personal details of you and all your Facebook friends without you knowing.

The article is worth reading. Wow, good job British hax0rz! I won’t say “the sky is falling” because this has been pretty well-known among the geek-o-rati for a long time. BBC notes MySpace apps run on MySpace’s servers, giving MySpace a much clearer idea of what an application is doing with the data.

Perhaps the media attention this is sure to draw will move FB to a more secure model. One can hope.

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How to watch Web Search Trends

Posted on April 30, 2008. Filed under: aol, blogging, companies, facebook, google, internet, search, social networking, tech news, torrent search | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Using search for analyzing social and cultural trends

The search engines have become an integrated part of our lives. Each and every day billions of searches are made all over the world, reflecting stories of work and leisure, strife and passion, and the interests of millions of Internet searchers.

If you could tap into this enormous amount of data, you could draw maps of fashion, cultural trends, political shifts and anything people are concerned about right now.

The search engine databases are kept under lock and key. The search engine companies hate the thought of loosing the trust of their users. Nevertheless, some aggregate data are available, and on this page your find links to some of the search trend sources found on the Web.

Google Zeitgeist and beyond

Google has a service called Google Zeitgeist that brings up weekly top 10 lists of the most popular searches in several countries and world wide.

With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time.

Lycos has a weekly top 50 list, while Yahoo presents various search trends at Yahoo Buzz.

Blogs, bookmarks and folksonomies

Note also that the growth of social networking and bookmarking sites has given as a new wealth of search trend data.

There are actually companies out there that monitoring and analyzing fashion and trends on the basis of social media such as blogs and discussion forums

Some statistics are free, though. The blog search engine Technorati will, for instance, give you a list of the most talked about topics in the blogosphere right now.

Site popularity

There are actually no trustworthy numbers on what sites are the most popular at any given time. Alexa, which bases its data on the habits of its Alexa toolbar users, may give you a certain indication though.

For these and other web trend sources, see the categories on this page.

Popular search terms in search engine marketing

Reading lists of the most popular search queries is entertaining. Social scientists ought to love the stuff. So far, however, it is the marketing people who has made the best use of this search information.

The search trends tell them what people find interesting right now, making it possible to adapt product and service development to what’s fashionable or upcoming.

This certainly applies to search engine marketing experts as well. Do you want to know what kind of affiliate program to go for and what product to sell? Look at what people search for and make sites and web pages covering these topics.

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Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 1

Posted on April 29, 2008. Filed under: blogging, facebook, Featured, internet, search, social networking, technology, torrent search | Tags: , , , , , , |

AUDIO 2.0


Mashup ecosystem (Click to see full image)

BLOG2POD 2.0

BLOGGING 2.0

BOOKMARKING 2.0

BROWSER 2.0

CALENDAR 2.0

CHAT 2.0

COLLABORATION 2.0

COLLECT 2.0

  • Librarious – Catalogue your collection. lib.rario.us/
  • Librarything – Catalogue & share your library. http://www.librarything.com/
  • Unalog – Share what you read, in groups. unalog.com/

COMIX 2.0

COMMUNICATION 2.0

COMMUNITY 2.0

CRM 2.0

DATABASE 2.0

DESIGN 2.0

DICTIONARY 2.0

ECOMMERCE 2.0

ECONOMY 2.0

E-LEARNING 2.0

EMAIL 2.0

FILESHARING 2.0

FINANCIALS 2.0

Read the Part 2 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 2

Read the Part 3 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List – Everything 2.0 – Part 3

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New Dating Site Caters To “Smarties”

Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: internet, oddball | Tags: , , , |

Daniel Terdiman wrote on the “geek gestalt” blog at CNET, “I’m sitting here, reading my morning e-mail and what pops up but a press release for a new dating site that purports to be ‘exclusively for intelligent people.’ Called, wonder of wonders, IntelligentPeople.com, the site says that to sign up you must first ‘pass the IQ test required for admission.'” Terdiman continued, “Well, snark aside, this is an interesting notion, this dating site for smarties. I suppose it’s no surprise. After all, there are plenty of affinity networks out there already, social networks for people who went to this college, or who play that game or who like to dress up as giraffes. So why not throw dating and high IQs into the exclusivity mix? Of course, as anyone who’s ever dated a smart person knows, intelligence isn’t any kind of guarantee of a good date. Sure, smart people generally prefer to date other smart people because it probably makes for better conversation, and the potential earning power is greater. On the other hand, would you really want to date someone who would be inclined to limit their partner trolling to a site that restricts anyone who doesn’t pass an IQ test? Perhaps this was actually someone’s clever notion of how to wall off a really annoying demographic from the rest of the dating pool.”

Quoting from itnews

“A new dating site caters exclusively for “intelligent” people and requires potential members to pass an IQ test in order to sign up.

Mensa restricts membership to the top two per cent of the IQ bracket, but IntelligentPeople.com will include the top 15 per cent.

The site’s developers said that people with an IQ in this range are “highly intelligent” and communicate and interact best with other intelligent people. IntelligentPeople.com hopes to give these people the opportunity to meet and form relationships with similar individuals, regardless of location, education and social status.
“Intelligent people usually want a partner who is also intelligent. Everyone wants someone they can talk to,” said Trine Jensen, founder of IntelligentPeople.com. At general dating sites you have to spend time and energy sorting profiles to find the ones that match your criteria. At IntelligentPeople.com we already make that sorting for you.”

The IQ test required for admission is a multiple choice, pattern recognition test consisting of black and white images and is designed to test intelligence while minimising cultural or educational biases. The site also has a more general community section designed to help members meet other people with high IQs, find a business partner or make new friends.”

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Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out: Sticky, Viral, User-friendly

Posted on April 25, 2008. Filed under: architecture, google, internet, microsoft, search, social networking, tech news, technology, yahoo | Tags: , , , |

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo here Thursday, Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh revealed how the company is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It is opening its Web platform to developers and moving closer to a Facebook-style social networking concept. Ari Balogh also said that while Yahoo already has open APIs for some services, it will expand the open API concept to other areas and make it more consistent for developers, while boosting the ‘social’ aspect of its services for its members.

“We are taking open to a whole other place,” Balogh said. “We are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open up the assets of Yahoo in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers.” He noted that Yahoo has 10 billion latent connections across its properties, such as mail, messenger and fantasy sports.

Balogh discussed the technical architecture–known as YOS, or Yahoo Open Strategy–including an application platform that will allow developers to create apps for consumers to keep their data protected and to chose what data to share and with whom. In addition, Yahoo will unify all profiles for users and developers, which will allow the company to leverage the 10 billion relations and 500 million users to create the social graph of relationships and to manage the event stream.

“We are not creating another social network. We will rewire the entire experience to make it social. We don’t think of social as a destination but as a dimension,” Balogh said. Along with Google and MySpace, Yahoo is a member of the OpenSocial Foundation, which is developing a specification for building social applications.

The underpinnings of Yahoo’s effort include development tools, an application platform, a social platform that unifies all profiles throughout Yahoo (again, like Facebook or MySpace, this is a social graph that lets users make connections and view events) and the total rewiring of properties to make all this possible.

Yahoo’s new architecture, called YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy) proves that the Internet is made of tubes (Source: Yahoo)

The heady plans are smart but, quite likely, come too late.

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Do you twit(ter)? Hell No!

Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: internet | Tags: , , |

I must confess – I still don’t get it. If I twitter, who will want to know about it? What am I doing right now? I am blogging, I am sleepy, I need a coffee, I feel like going to Peru… SO %$#^ WHAT??? Why do YOU care?

My family is not that tech savvy, my boss I’d rather not have him see “what I am doing right now”, my colleagues – nah; my fans? I have few, maybe, but not sure if they are twitter users.

Would I want to know what my friends are doing right now? Not really. Not in 140 Characters. Yes, you can find out what your friends are doing right this minute. But seriously…do you care?

It’s hard to explain why Twitter is so popular. Is it for self-gratification that I twitter (and imagine that the world is reading my crap?).

I just don’tget it (of course, if I’m Julia Roberts, twitter might make sense. But she might be not savvy enough to get it).

Twitter’s chatty nature and intuitive usability has resulted in instant popularity, and today Twitter is hangin’ in the inner most circle of the tech-savvy in-crowd. So much so that when there were outages last week, so many people went bonkers. Why? What am I missing?

“had a hard day at work”

“reading ‘wired’ ”

“came back from a jog”

“yawn”

Yes, yawn!

(But some of them *are* funny.)

Twitter is the new kid in the block. Now let us see them make some money. They survived the first year, how will it go for the company from here? There are already copycats out there, and technologically, it is not a rocket that it can’t be copied. It’s going to be fun to watch them for the next 6 months.

BTW, Will I twitter? Thanks, but I prefer to blog.

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StumbleUpon: Red Letter day

Posted on April 23, 2008. Filed under: Asides | Tags: , , |

I have been one of the early users of StumbleUpon, and I have seen the ups and downs of it. It is really heartening to read this:

“Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it counts anyone who has ever registered for the Website-rating and discovery service, and who may no longer use it. StumbleUpon, which is part of eBay, does not disclose how many active users it has.”

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