Archive for the Pro Web 2.o Category

Seems like everyone is on Technorati these days, and hey, who’s to blame them. If you have a blog, you should be on there. Technorati started up a couple of years ago and is now the biggest engine for bloggers to voice their thoughts and non-bloggers to discover great and new blogs. It’s a massive aggregator for blogs, collecting ...

Sure, Google may be a big hit in the US and dominate the Internet search in many other countries, but according to Monday's report by NetRatings Japan, it has just recently broken into Japan's top ten. Google launched it's Japanese version back in September 2000, struggling against other Japanese search engines and it's arch-rival, Yahoo Japan, finally making it into ...

Pluck, an RSS Reader provider which has been fighting for a while in the RSS market to keep afloat, has finally called it quits. A notice on the site states that users have until January 5, 2007 to pack-up and go. Not good news for it's users, especially if you have tons of feed subscriptions to export, what a ...

The Web 2.o Expo will be held next year in San Francisco during April 15-18 and they're ready to hear from you, but you better hurry up and submit your proposals because the due date for entries is November 6. The Call For Participants "Whether you’re an expert in Ajax, Ruby, tagging, user experience, meta-programming, search engine marketing, community building, web ...

An article over at TechCrunch reports that our famous Digg (the social content website) is open for offers, especially from News Corp., which were the guys that bought out MySpace. The price range Digg is interested in is something at least around the $150 million mark and above. If they don't close a deal in the up coming weeks ...

I'm at a loss for words on this one, it's like everyone wants a piece of the action, even the feds. Well, they just launched their very own version of MySpace, named YoungFeds.org. In their words, "it's a place for the views and voices that matter to young people working in and around the federal government". Okay, that's it, don't ...

Getting Real is a book published by 37signals on developing, implementing and improving web applications. It helps it's readers by giving an insightful view on providing a smarter, faster, and easier way to build successful web-based applications (which they have a proven track record of achieving). After selling over 20,000 issues online, they have decided to give it away for ...

For a while now we've all noticed all the spam that comes from having a MySpace profile, for example, the thousands of fake users requesting to be added to your friends list in order to monetize from traffic, or the real MySpace users advertising bands, clubs, and a number of other things. So when is enough, enough? Well, that ...

Here's a quick message from Chad and Steve of YouTube. Completely rich and loving it, due to both "graciously" accepting $1.65billion from Google for their website. After seeing these two pocket from this major acquisition, developing a video website will certainly go on my list of things-to-do for next year. [youtube]QCVxQ_3Ejkg&eurl[/youtube]

Firefox has officially released the much anticipated second edition of their famous Firefox Browser. With an increase to it's amazing security features, built-in spell checker (great news for bloggers), and much more! It is hands-down, the best browser I have used, in my opinion. Here is what is included in the new Firefox 2 (as stated in their release notes). Visual ...