Is this the end for street artists? Probably not. Nonetheless, Tech Crunch today profiles a site called Iconize Me!, which sells digital caricatures. From the site: "The concept behind Iconize Me! is pretty simple: After sending DV Graphics an order ...
Red Herring reports that Paypal is slashing its fees for microtransactions, finally admitting that its charge for digital goods is just too high. "The digital content to be covered by the service would include video games, online greeting cards, news...
When you buy something, you own it, right? Wrong! Recently we've seen DRM and "copy protection" take over our music collections, putting ridiculous restrictions on what we can and can't do with the goods that we've already paid for. Now Lexmark has g...
The Social Software Weblog points to an inspired new business idea - Ojos (not yet in beta) will auto-tag your digital photos using face and text recognition: "I post only a subset of the digital photos I take to Flickr...The rest of the shots… well,...
I'm a big fan of the "wisdom of crowds". For those who haven't read it yet, the basic premise of the book is a large group of people makes better decisions than a small panel of experts. The author cites Google's PageRank system as a prime example of...
Goodbye iPod Mini. Hello iPod Nano! But wait...what are you going to do with that old Mini now that you've decided to fork out for an even cuter sliver of iPod goodness? Chill, dude, I'm here to help you out... 1. Use it as the world's most expensive...
The headline says it all - Robert Scoble, grand master of the blogosphere, just posted an interview with BillG. You can check out the entire 16 minute video at Channel 9. No doubt this will be all around the blogosphere in a matter of hours. Some int...
The Register reports that a UK student is trying to raise $1 million dollars by selling pixel-sized ads on his homepage. Each pixel ad costs $1 and the minimum order is 100 pixels. The growth of this site is truly astounding - over 7,100 pixels have ...
I just love this graphic. From the Raw Feed: "Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are rumored to have bought a Boeing 767 for their own personal and business use. When they use it for business, the company will reimburse them thousands of doll...
Since its release on Wednesday, internet users have been bombarded with images of the freakishly slim iPod Nano, leading to a widespread delusion that other MP3 players are "too fat". Concerned mothers were shocked to hear Steve Jobs proclaim "It's t...
Trendwatching.com, arguably the best site in the world, has been updated. This month's consumer trend, Minipreneurs, covers all my favorite topics: blogging, Generation C, Customer Made, Noveau Niche, the Long Tail, personalisation, citizen journalis...
Sergey, Larry and their fellow Googlers have done it again: Google Blog Search Beta is alive and kicking. And while the service is not without its quirks (like those irksome spam results) it's still a useful service. Here are some fun things to do wi...
You might remember last week I posted about Creative Reporter, a service that pays you for a copy of your blog content, even if you keep it active on your own blog. I thought this sounded great, so I promised to test it out and report back to you. Wh...
If you've visited my LinkedIn profile since I put it up last week (and judging by the number of connections I have, no one has!), you'll know that I darned well can't get enough of on-demand printing and publishing. Lulu.com is leading the way on thi...
So maybe that title is a tad hyperbolic (OK, so it's totally over the top), but I guarantee you'll find this idea as exciting as I do. See that grainy picture above? That's a Nokia phone attached to a wireless keyboard. The benefit is only slight: it...
Greetings, fellow Pastafarians! The noodly master has done it again, delivering an amusement of such breathtaking magnitude that it surely must have been touched by His very own Noodly Appendage. That's right - Flying Spaghetti Monster: The Game has ...
Scoopt, the UK company which pays citizens for (newsworthy) cameraphone snaps, wants everyone to know they've sold some more photos. MocoNews reports that they off-loaded a celebrity snap to the Sun newspaper, while a TV station paid for videophone f...
I have a suspicion that some of my feeds aren't working quite right. I have a Feedburner feed, an RSS feed and an Atom feed. The RSS2 feed is working, but the Atom and Feedburner feeds seem to be down. What's more, recent articles aren't showing up i...
Yesterday I had a chat via email with Aaron Levie from Box.net. Box provide 1GB of storage for $2.99 per month, which I think is pretty darned good! What's more, they don't charge a cent for bandwidth! There's a great podcast interview with Aaron ove...
Ajax is infinitely cool, isn't it? Tech Crunch today has a review of NetVibes, a personal homepage that features a really slick ajax interface. Check it out! NetVibes isn't alone as far as ajaxian start pages go: there's also Microsoft's Start.com, G...
Yesterday I waxed lyrical about Box.net, pointing out the importance of online storage to our mobile future. This reminded me of an article over on Trendwatching.com called LifeCaching, and this passage in particular: With Google's Gmail setting new ...
I just got an email from Torsten Jacobi, who runs Creative Reporter, the site which pays you for your blog content. A few days ago I put up a post to say that the numbers on the Creative Reporter site didn't add up. Luckily, these guys read blogs and...
I'm sure you're aware of the problems with profiles over at Flickr. In essence, Yahoo wants to migrate all the Flickr accounts over to the YahooID service. This is interesting because it seems to contradict common sense - wouldn't it be easier to hav...
Just a quick note to say that Business Week has an article up on Web 2.0. There's nothing new here, but its good to see the big guys picking up on this stuff....
I just read an insightful post over on This Is Going to Be BIG!, discussing something you could call the "blogger divide". If you've been a blogger for any length of time, you've no doubt made countless friends in the blogosphere, learned a massive a...
Ivan Pope of Web API tracker just added a Wikipedia entry on Mashup (web application hybrid). Now it's up to the Web 2.0 community to fill this baby up! So what are you waiting for? Go tell your friends!...
Michael at TechCrunch just posted about FilmLoop, a visual showcase for photos which is set for imminent launch. But here's something just as cool which showed up in the comments: Slide is an application for "instantly sharing photos, videos, and oth...
Dare Obasanjo posted recently about populicio.us, the "popular links" service which was screenscraping data from del.icio.us. Populicio.us has gone down (at least temporarily, it will probably relaunch soon) because del.icio.us changed the way it dis...
I guess this was inevitable. Barb at the Social Software Weblog reports that Wikipedia and Google Maps have finally got it together to create Placeopedia, a way to explore Wikipedia articles based on location. On first look, it seems really well done...
I've been wondering recently whether Google is trying to become an ISP. In fact, Om Malik has been posting on this subject for weeks, referring to it as the GoogleNet (the name comes from this Business 2.0 article). Today, Jeremy Zawodny posts to say...
