A must-read article: Search Engines Prepare For Behavioral Targeting. It's fairly long, so here are some edited highlights for Attention-poor readers: We're all used to patting down Google, Yahoo!, or MSN for relevant information, but what if they st...
Don't know what OPML is? You're not alone. Alex Barnett has a nice screencast which should help you out....
I haven't posted on the Windows Live news yet because I think we need some time for the dust to settle. My thoughts so far? This is not really about products - some of the "announcements" are just repackaging of old stuff - the real change is a philo...
A few weeks ago I weighed in on the Flash vs Ajax debate, saying that I marginally prefer AJAX. Well, today saw the launch Yahoo Maps Beta, the third major entry in the online mapping space and the only service so far to use Flash. The other two play...
Bernard Moon gave me a heads-up on his latest article: 2084. His prediction? George Orwell was wrong: technology puts the people in charge....
After the launch of Live.com, Microsoft's first real foray into the start page space (start.com was purely experimental), Richard MacManus has taken a fresh look at AJAX start pages. It turns out the big boys have a lot of catching up to do if they'r...
And the prize for most web 2.0 buzzwords in a single paragraph goes to....Plum! From their teaser page: Looking for a better way to collect and share all the things you care about, stumble across or need? Believe in smart mobs? Think that mash-ups ar...
Did someone order a Netvibes clone? Let's hope these guys have something new to offer once they launch....
A few days ago I asked: Should Search Engines Log Your Search History? It looks like Google plans to do exactly that - and more. It seems they've filed a patent which will let them serve up search results by tracking your every move - online and off....
Wow! I've often said that humans are better than algorithms, but it looks like Amazon has taken that idea literally - they've created a web service that lets you solve problems using human minds. The Mechanical Turk has an API and pays human beings f...
Fruitcast rocks! The service lets you insert short ads in your podcasts and get paid by advertisers when someone downloads you video. From TechCrunch: Fruitcast launched today. It's a service that automatically inserts 15 second sound advertisements ...
"Pando is a tiny app that lets you email any size file or folder to anyone, free. "...
"Revver supports video creators by helping them earn money and distribute their work widely. By attaching a RevTag to a video, creators track their content anywhere online and make money every time a user clicks on the ad. RevTags benefit creators, a...
ClipShack is a video sharing community. We built it so that people who enjoy shooting digital video and showing it to other people have an easy and fun place to do that. So if you want to share video with your friends and family, get some feedback on...
"Through Dumbfind’s two box search technology users are able to search for keywords (as they would on any ordinary search engine) and reorder those results using generalized topics. This is a new approach to search that allows users to better utilize...
While we're all coming to terms with our Google obsession (apparently their lunches were more interesting than anything else on the web last Friday), companies like Amazon are quietly changing the world - and getting away with it! How quickly we forg...
There's much more to Web 2.0 than Silicon Valley. China Web2.0 Review is a new blog covering everything Web 2.0 in China, including Feedsky - a feature-rich version of FeedBurner. Excellent blog - subscribed. Update: I wonder if the 43things guys aut...
Tara "Miss Rogue" Hunt, Alex Barnett and Ben Barren have been hacking Memeorandum - trying to get a post to appear on the front page of the automated news site by gaming the system. And it appears to have worked. Alex even created a screencast showin...
Back in October, I suggested that the yet-to-launch GoingOn Network would be the first service to revolutionize social software. But it looks like the newcomer SuprGlu is doing very interesting things in this space. SuprGlu is one of a new breed of D...
Russell Beattie, Om Malik and TechCrunch are reporting on a soon-to-launch news service called Newsvine. The interesting bit? They plan to merge user-generated content with regular news items. Even better, they want to add revenue sharing to the mix....
Wow - it seems like there are hundreds of these social news sites springing up. But this one has real promise. Kevin Burton's TailRank (now in public beta) filters news according to your interests and those of others: TailRank is a social news recomm...
Pandora, the Flash-based music recommendation engine, is now free. No signup required. Rocks!...
If web 2.0 is about open data and preventing lock-in, then eBay feedback is its antithesis. You don't own your reputation - eBay does. You can't export it, take it to another site and start selling there (but hey, it looks like these guys are trying!...
When Scoble says… * Virtual Earth- take a drink * Zvents - take 2 drinks * Gadget - take 3 drinks * Attention - take 4 drinks * Memeorandum - take a shot * Disrupt - take 2 shots * Disruptive - take 3 shots * Disruption! - take 4 shots, a drink and m...
Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay users for interesting photos. But in many ways, it's already happening elsewhere. TechCrunch reports on newcomer Fotolia, which seems like a more modern-looking version of iStockPhoto, with some clever new features. Unli...
For the last few days I've been using the AttentionTrust recorder and Root.net. If you've got Firefox, this basically lets you record everything you do online and analyse that data. Root calls itself the "first open market for the pricing and exchang...
There's been a lot of buzz this weekend about Audible's new service "Wordcast", which - among other things - can provide accurate statistics on who has listened to your podcast. I'm not going to get into the debate about how Audible's .aa format comp...
In case you've been sleeping in a ditch this weekend, a quick catch-up: Dave Winer, Doc Searls, Om Malik, and Jeff Jarvis have all responded to the announcement that Audible is releasing a new podcasting service called Wordcast, which can - among oth...
Google Analytics is now live on this site. So please click, scroll and take a look through the archives - let's see what this baby can do! My first impressions of the interface are extremely positive: unlike most Google products, the UI is attractive...
This is awesome! llor.nu is a board game written in Ruby on Rails and AJAX. It's currently in open beta, so why not have a go?...
