It's pretty clear we need better tools to make podcasts searchable and indexable. I'd also like auto-tagging (Riya for podcasts?), but that's another story. There's no shortage of startups rapidly filling this space, but a company called Podzinger is...
As you've no doubt already heard, Skype 2.0 Beta supports video and (finally) grouping of your contacts. But just like Google, the Skypers seem to be forgetting that many of the best beta testers aren't using Windows - they're on Macs (or Linux). Whe...
Glide Effortless is the new service that everyone is talking about, but no-one is actually using.* What's more, it's fairly difficult to even understand what it does. I've managed to piece together some facts from this Slashdot post, but the best exp...
Jookster is a community-driven search engine. Yup - another one, folks! Like Filangy, OutFoxed (a Firefox extension), Collaborative Rank and Wink, Jookster adds social bookmarking to the mix to generate more relevant search results. Mike Arrington wr...
Here's an app that's generating a lot of interest from both Ruby on Rails and Ajax fans. Fluxiom is an asset management app for enterprises with a cool ajaxy interface - it reminds me of some of the work the 37Signals guys are doing. Thomas Fuchs, on...
I think it's fair to say I'm not overly impressed with Congoo Beta. Quite frankly, I don't get it. Here's the blurb: Congoo is a new type of search engine that uses unique, patented technology to improve upon today’s typical search experience. Congoo...
From the creators of GarageBand.com comes GCast, a free podcast hosting service. The catch? They want to make it back with ads - perhaps even placing audio ads in the podcasts themselves. But it seems the service is really designed to attract current...
So what's BoltFolio? It's a media-sharing site in the style of OurMedia, or perhaps "the Flickr of everything". Now normally being called the "Flickr of Something" is a bad sign, but this attempt is extremely well executed - the UI is pretty slick, t...
I'm loving the current crop of music discovery services. I've been using Last.fm and Pandora pretty solidily for the past week - they're both picking amazing tracks! What's more, they're both free! This rocks!...
This is really cool - real-time jamming over the Interweb! Ninjam is a downloadable app that lets you jam with musicians all over the world. I've been busting out some riffs on my electric guitar and I can't believe how smooth the whole experience is...
Digg.com, the popular tech news site with ultra-fast distributed editing, is set to expand. From Mediapost: DIGG.COM, A COLLABORATIVELY EDITED TECHNOLOGY news site that some on the Web are touting as the next Slashdot, intends to branch out from tech...
It looks like the Digg community is applying the justice of crowds* once more, this time to attack a potential competitor called Shoutwire. FlackOS writes: A small war has been started between Digg users and Shoutwire users. Curiously, this “war†has...
I'm not sure how new this is (the history of the Wikipedia article suggests it's pretty new), but Clickable Culture points to a beta release of IMVU, a 3D instant-messaging client. At first glance, I'm not sure whether this is a useful new tool, an u...
ZoomInfo, a search engine that helps you find information on individuals, is back in the news after the release of some new features. Paul Kedrosky writes: The evolving people search tool Zoominfo has taken people search up a level, with the folks th...
Last month I mentioned Google Base was full of spam - and to be fair, Google has made genuine efforts to remove some of the junk. But now Comparison Engines is reporting that Froogle, Google's shopping comparison engine, has the same problem: Because...
Marketing Vox reports that the search service Kanoodle plans to pay publishers for distributing its cookies. Niall Kennedy explains: Advertising network Kanoodle will now pay webmasters for planting a cookie on a visitor's computer without ever showi...
It's that old proverb again: you can never have enough hats, bags or RSS readers. I've been testing yet another one today by the name of NewsAlloy, and it's not too shabby. The service has a fairly standard set of features like archiving, grouping an...
Goodbye NumSum. Hello JotSpot Tracker! You can always trust the Jotspot guys to come up with great products, and it looks like they've done it again. JotSpot Tracker lets you copy and paste your Excel spreadsheets into the app, then work on them in a...
Squidoo, a new service I've been testing for the last few weeks, has now gone into public beta. (There hasn't been an announcement yet, but I've got the green light to go ahead and tell you about it.) The site is really a more long-tail version of Ab...
Is this MMOG 2.0? Could be! A new service called Multiverse claims to facilitate the creation of DIY virtual worlds - you could think of it as the Ning of MMOGs. Richard Bartle writes: I heard of Multiverse, launching today. It's a complete, end-to-e...
Eric Goldstein pinged me about some updates to his service Clipmarks, which lets you clip and tag snippets of web pages. From the glowing PCMag review: Ever wish you could "tear out" a piece of a Web site like you would a magazine or newspaper articl...
Yahoo!'s strength has always been its ability to build communities, and it looks like they're back on form with the release of Yahoo! Answers Beta. Launched a few hours ago, Yahoo! Answers is a question and answer service that anyone can use. Unlike ...
Fast Company Now has a post about Google's plan for Google Video - it looks like they're trying to build a marketplace where user-generated videos can be bought, sold and licensed. And since revenue sharing is becoming one of my favorite topics, I co...
Dion Hinchcliffe recently wrote about the need for new business models for Web 2.0, presenting us with this great diagram of the current solutions: Personally, I think the same business models hold true whether it's Web 1.0, 2.0 or anything else. I c...
Steve Rubel points to yet another social bookmarking site today - Jots. He also rounds up the current contenders for the social bookmarking throne: Spurl, Furl, Simpy, BlinkList, Connotea, My Web 2.0, de.lirio.us, and del.icio.us. Jots appears to be ...
It's official - Yahoo has acquired del.icio.us! From the del.icio.us blog: We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big e...
So the news just broke on Yahoo's acquisition of del.icio.us. Could this be the new logo? Do my mad skillz need more work? You decide! :)...
Is this for real? InfoWorld is reporting that Bill Gates wants to pay users a percentage of the ad revenues from search. From the InfoWorld article: Microsoft Corp. will share a part of its advertising revenues from its search engine with users, the ...
Robin Good just pinged me about a wacky project of his: MyVideoKaraoke. He describes it as "my little effort at having fun while applying what I have learned from the web". Robin is a grand master of blogging - is he a musical genius too? Umm...no co...
Now this is just getting silly. A few days back TechCrunch posted about Eskobo, another Ajax desktop with the standard modules for news, weather and feeds. And then came word of yet another customizable web desktop by the name of Favoor. Both apps ar...
