Steve Krause has contributed to the ongoing Last.fm vs Pandora discussion with an excellent and in-depth post. He writes: Algorithmically, Pandora versus Last.fm is something like the nature versus nurture debate. Taking the nature side, Pandora's re...

Hot on the heels of Standpoint comes another 43things-esque site: 8by1. The service aims to cultivate social change through community. From the about page: 8by1 is your wishlist for the world. 8by1 helps you evangelize your wishes for the world, and ...

Here's an inevitable idea that has finally become a reality: video bookmarking. Om Malik reports that Dabble will allow you to aggregate videos on your own personal page and use a bookmarklet to add any video you see online. It's essentially a video-...

Has Memeorandum got competition? Over the last few months, a number of services have sprung up to help us find the most talked-about news of the moment. Time for a check-up on the state of the memeosphere... Memeorandum - If you're into tech or US po...

Eventually, podcasting will have to find a sustainable business model. Whether it's Fruitcast-style automated ad insertion or more subtle product placements (I love Diet Coke, by the way), there will have to be some way to get paid for your podcasts....

I spoke yesterday to the designer of Blummy (his site is here). The coding was done by Alex Kirk. So what's Blummy? Well, it's a simple service that lets you organize your ever-expanding bookmarklet collection into groups. Barb at the Social Software...

I'm not at all impressed by Current.tv. It's not that the content is bad (it's bearable), but the approach is completely and utterly backwards. Current is what happens when some tv execs catch a whiff of "user-generated content" and decide to shoehor...

Looks like a French version of Techcrunch just launched - I'm suddenly getting a lot of trackbacks (especially on older posts) from a site called fr.techcrunch.com. There's no word on the main Techcrunch site yet, but I think a French version is a gr...

Back when Dabble was big news, I pointed out that a video aggregator (aka "del.icio.us for video" or "digg for video") was an utterly obvious idea. And indeed it is. Today Steve Rubel points to what will no doubt be the first of many video aggregator...

Following on from Bill Gates' suggestion that users should be paid to use MSN search, TechDirt hints that Yahoo might reward users to use their own search engine. Of course, users won't get paid cash, but instead they could receive free music downloa...

I'm back, baby! Apologies for the long silence these last few days, but I've now got some goodies to show ya. Not only is the new Mashable design almost fixed (I still need to transfer a few more features over from the old template), but I've started...

Mike Arrington seems keen on 3Bubbles, a soon-to-launch service that lets you put a live chat window on your blog posts. But you can put me down as one of the skeptics. Mike writes: Silicon Valley based 3Bubbles, which launches next week, is going to...

I gotta say that I love Edgeio. Mike Arrington called me today and gave me a demo of the new classifieds service he has worked on with Keith Teare. I really can't fault it. It ties in with so much of the stuff that I've been thinking about recently -...

I love, love, LOVE CoComment! The idea is a good one: bring together your widely scattered blog comments and help you track the replies from around the...err...commentosphere. But not only is the idea good - the execution is excellent. Nary a day aft...

There's something strangely compelling about watching a stranger staring at his computer screen. I know, because I'm doing it right now. Stickam, which launches officially on February 15th (you can access the site today), is essentially a widget for ...

The rumors were true - Google has snapped up MeasureMap, the excellent and beautifully designed blog analytics tool. What's interesting here is that Measuremap was barely outta the gate - is this the first Web 2.0 service to be bought up while still ...

I seem to be going through a love-hate relationship with web apps at the moment. I wasn't going to post about this one, but I just spotted a post by Richard MacManus on the subject and I think he got it very, very wrong. The service in question is SO...

After hogging memory, freezing up, crashing repeatedly and generally misbehaving, Firefox has finally given up running on my machine altogether. I could scour the forums yet again to see what's gone wrong, but I'm just plain tired of the constant pro...

I've just been testing out Campfire, the new web-based chat service from 37Signals. As you'd expect, it's simple, intuitive and good looking. It's really a service for small businesses who want to keep all their chats in one place (all chats are perm...

We all know the problem: there are thousands of unsigned artists who want people to hear their music, and thousands of music fans who want access to high quality music for free. Using Creative Commons licensing, Jamendo is trying to bring these group...

Ma.gnolia is a new social bookmarking site. That's right folks - another one. It has an attractive interface with all the standard features - tagging, RSS feeds, even a Digg-like voting system. From the site: Find and save your favorite website bookm...

Mike has put up a pretty favorable post on Blogburst, a new service from the makers of Pluck that will syndicate blog content to mainstream media sites. In this instance, I think his optimism is well-placed, with a few reservations. First, why no rev...

Bunchball is shaping up to be a nice product. The service allows you to place Flash games on your blog, your MySpace page or virtually any website. That's a nice idea, but when I tested the service a few months back it just didn't work right. I retur...

UPDATE: A few of you requested a complete feed that merged entries from Mashable.com, Mashable/journal and Mashable/weblist. Lucky for you, I finally figured out how to do it! You can now subscribe to all 3 sites using this feed: CompletelyMashable -...

FeedXS is old news by blogosphere standards (over a month old!), but I'm picking it out as an example of a basic edge feeder. One of the big criticisms levelled against Edgeio and other edge plays is that you need to have a blog to contribute. In the...

I wonder if Google has patented its spray and pray technology? Froogle, Google Catalogs, Google Base, Google Blog Search and the new Google Pages...it just feels like Google is throwing everything out there to see what sticks. While it's tempting to ...

Numbler is a new web-based spreadsheet (websheet?) along the lines of Numsum. Not only is it more attractive than NumSum, but it has an easy-to-use WYSIWG interface. From the site: Welcome to Numbler, the web based spreadsheet that enables instantane...

Once you get past the basic interface and deceptively bland logo, you'll notice that Thumbstacks is actually a pretty interesting application. Why? Because it fills the one remaining gap in the supposed Web 2.0 office suite that some bloggers are roo...

Weed isn't a new service, but it's a pretty interesting example of viral revenue chains. Instead of going against the flow by suing everyone who dares to share their music collection, Weed embeds the monetization unit within the file itself. That's r...

So Google is planning to add payments to GoogleBase, effectively creating a competitor to Paypal and eBay. Judging by the sorry state of GoogleBase, I sure as hell hope they know what they're doing. On the upside, Google is finally starting to divers...