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| Mar 13, 2008 | The Best Tools for Visualization | Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communi... |
| Oct 29, 2007 | ActionThis Launches Online Task Management Service – Free Offer for R/WW Readers | ActionThis, a Wellington, New Zealand based startup, today launched a “Get Things Done” task management app. It enables people to create and track project management items and tasks, either using a browser interface (free) or within Microso... |
| Nov 23, 2006 | OriginalSignal Relaunches With Big Changes | Popular single page aggregator OriginalSignal has relaunched and is now much more than just an inflexible startpage for lazy people – it’s added a list of features that make it more useful than ever.
The site displays the newest headlines f... |
| Oct 19, 2006 | Campus Reader Aggregates College News | Campus Reader is a new site that aggregates the feeds from 300 online college newspapers around the US. I think it does a fairly good job and the basic idea is a very good one.
The site automatically detects where a reader is located and se... |
| May 25, 2006 | Battleship + Ajax = SinkMyShip | This is just for fun, although it’s also a nice demonstration of multi-user Ajax. If you like the old Milton Bradley Battelship game, you’ll enjoy spending a few minutes on SinkMyShip, an online Ajax version of the game. It’s free, no regis... |
| May 13, 2006 | Back Up Your Blog | BackupMyBlog is a new service (in public beta) that will automatically back up blogs daily (I love the heavy use of green in the design). This is a much needed tool. WordPress, which is what we use for all of the TechCrunch blogs, has this ... |
| Apr 26, 2006 | Fluxiom: Great Product, Outrageously Priced | Fluxiom, based in Vienna, is a first rate online storage and file management product. I’d even go so far as to say that it is the most usable storage product I’ve tested.
A key issue with online storage is the uploading function. Typically ... |
| Dec 20, 2005 | ajchat – AJax Instant Messaging on the Fly | I’ve been testing out ajchat tonight with Brian Benzinger (a fellow web 2.0 workgroup member). Like Meebo, Gtalk and e-messenger.net, ajchat is an ajax instant messaging on the fly, that allows you to log in or type anonymously. It’s free. ... |
| Dec 20, 2005 | BubbleShare – Best Photo Service Yet? | Toronto-based online photo sharing BubbleShare is just wonderful, and ridiculously easy to use. Their interface team deserves a gold star or something, because I don’t think I’ve ever used a site’s full functionality without consulting a si... |
| Dec 8, 2005 | Rallypoint Offers an Ajax Word Solution | I’m loving the ajax office solutions tonight. In addition to Jotspot Tracker, I’ve been playing around with Rallypoint, an online ajax word/wiki product.
Rallypoint joins Writely, JotSpot Live, Zoho Writer and others (I lump services like W... |
| Nov 30, 2005 | Gtalkr, Flash + Gtalk | Gtalkr, a flash-based website to access Google’s Gtalk, launched yesterday. It allows you to access your Gtalk instant messaging account without a client, from any computer.
Comparisons will inevitably be drawn to Meebo, a similar service, ... |
| Nov 25, 2005 | Windows Live Email Service | Domains.Live.com is a free new email service offered by Microsoft. It’s a simple but very useful tool. And, like Office Live, it is disruptive to the existing domain name registrar market (are they even paying attention?).
So the basic serv... |
| Nov 23, 2005 | Web 2.0 WorkGroup Now Has 20 Blogs | Richard MacManus, Fred Oliveira and I formed the Web 2.0 WorkGroup about a month and a half ago. We’ve now grown to twenty blogs:
Category Sites
Analysis & Trends Read/WriteWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe,
Susan Mernit’s Blog, Web 2.0 Explorer
Co... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | New Look At Del.icio.us | Del.icio.us just put up a completely new site. Recent bookmarks on the left, popular bookmarks on the right.
It’s about time. :-) Nice one, Joshua.
Logged In:
Logged Out:
Thanks for the tip Brian. |
| Nov 16, 2005 | Hyper-Contextual Search Results with Swicki | Eurekster’s Swicki search service officially launches later today (November 16, 2005).
Eurekster, a twenty person company located in San Francisco and New Zealand, has a profitable business (called Search Publisher) that provides customized... |
| Nov 15, 2005 | Google Base Launched. Yuck. | Google Blog officially announces the launch of Google Base. We previously anticipated the launch of Google Base (along with everyone else) in late October.
Bottom Line: This is not a very interesting application in its current form. Keith T... |
| Nov 9, 2005 | Digg is (almost) as big as Slashdot | Digg continues to increase its traffic at an impressive rate, and is clearly set to overtake Slashdot within a month or so (thanks for the link Brian).
The image, from one year traffic trend, shows Digg nearing Slashdot traffic levels after... |
| Nov 3, 2005 | Insert Ads into Podcasts with Fruitcast | Fruitcast launched today. It’s a service that automatically inserts 15 second sound advertisements directly into a publsiher’s podcast (either at the beginning, or the end, or both).
They’ve focused on keeping things ultra simple. You simpl... |
| Oct 31, 2005 | Tag Camp Photo Album with Picaboo | I first heard about Picaboo from Robert Scoble a few days ago. Picaboo is a way to create, share and print photo albums.
Picaboo was founded in September 2002 by Howard Field and Kevin McCurdy, and is funded by Kleiner Perkins and Softbank.... |
| Oct 21, 2005 | Will mainstream people flock to Flock? | By now most of you know that Flock, a trendy new Mozilla-based “social web browser”, has gone live. Because it’s said to be a quintessential Web 2.0 application, I feel duty-bound to try it out. So I’ve downloaded it and will give it a go a... |
| Oct 17, 2005 | Flock's Refines Features, Expands Beta | Flock‘s CEO Bart Decrem expanded the beta over the weekend to 1,007 people, most of whom are now blogging about it.
The product, which was good back in August when I first tested it, is even better today. I’m a big supporter of Flock. I am ... |
| Oct 14, 2005 | Podtech and SolutionWatch Join Web 2.0 WorkGroup | If you haven’t seen the Web2.0WorkGroup yet, check it out. My original post on it is here.
We’ve added two new resources – Podtech.net and SolutionWatch.
Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining c... |
| Oct 14, 2005 | More Web 2.0 Workgroup members | As TechCrunch reported, two more resources have been added to our nascent Web 2.0 Workgroup. Mike wrote:“Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining corporate press practices. Recently, for instance,... |
| Oct 10, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (October 2 – 8) | Web 2.0 This Week
October 2 – 8
What a week! Web 2.0 was absolutely terrific. There were hundreds of smart and interesting people milling about and cross pollinating their ideas. Our focus was on the new companies, of course, and we briefly... |
| Oct 2, 2005 | Writeboard Launches But Needs Feature Upgrades | Service: Writeboard
Company: part of 37signals
Launched: October 2, 2005
37signals (creators of backpack, basecamp, etc.) launched Writeboard, an application to build sharable text documents online, today (Jason Fried’s post is here).
It’s ... |
| Sep 27, 2005 | JotSpot Live – The Perfect Wiki? | Company: JotSpot Live
Launched: September 27, 2005
Blog: JotSpot Live blog
Location: Palo Alto, CA
JotSpot Live, a JotSpot company, launched today. They’ve created an awesome wiki tool that solves at least two common wiki problems – the spe... |
| Sep 14, 2005 | Meebo – Instant Messaging with Ajax | Company: Meebo
Launched: Today, September 14, 2005 (Public Alpha)
Location: Palo Alto, CA Overview
Meebo, an ajax-rich web-based instant messenger application, launched today. It’s elegant and useful.
There are a number of problems with ins... |
| Sep 12, 2005 | Zimbra – Web/Ajax Based Outlook | Company: Zimbra
Founded: 2003
Location: San Mateo, CA
We saw that really well done Ajax web applications like Writely can open people’s eyes to the future of the computing and the place that web 2.0 has in that future.
When you first view t... |
| Sep 5, 2005 | Organize Your Stuff With Listal | Company: Listal
Launched: August 29, 2005? (based on earliest date in forum)
Creator: Tom Mascord
Location: UK (based on listal.com whois information) Overview
Listal is a very early beta product that allows you to catalog, tag and share yo... |
| Sep 5, 2005 | Del.icio.us Toolbar Coming | Company: Del.icio.us
Previous Posts: August 15, 2005, July 10, 2005 and June 16, 2005
This is definitely filed under the rumor category, but two people have separately pointed out to me a public del.icio.us link by Fred Wilson (user’s links... |
| Aug 31, 2005 | Writely – Process Words with your Browser | Company: Writely
Launched: August 2005
Location: California Overview:
Imagine Word, but as an ajax browser application that was free. And allowed tagging of documents. And you could set reader permissions for each document you create and al... |
| Aug 28, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (August 21-27) | Web 2.0 This Week
August 21 – 27
I spent most of this week in Palo Alto working on Archimedes Ventures projects. I was able to post about most of the companies I met at Bar Camp (with one notable exception, which is to come). Lots of intere... |
| Aug 26, 2005 | Flock – Social Browsing is Cool | Company: Flock
Launched: in private beta
Status: Funded/Incubated by Bessemer Venture Partners
Location: Palo Alto Overview
Flock is a new browser, built on top of firefox. It is a functional browser with excellent features (including firef... |
| Aug 22, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (August 14-20) | Web 2.0 This Week
August 14 – 20
It’s late on Sunday night and I have so much to write about – this last week was absolutely amazing. I met so many interesting people at Bar Camp and added their blogs to my Pluck reader. I am now reading ov... |
| Aug 13, 2005 | Profile – FeedCatch | Company: FeedCatch
Launched: August 2005
Note: service of FeedShake (profile) Overview:
Thanks to Nivi who pointed me to FeedShake‘s new FeedCatch feed archiving service.
FeedCatch is a nice little tool that allows you to take any feed and ... |
| Aug 8, 2005 | Profile – YouTube | Company: YouTube
Launched: early 2005
Location: Palo Alto, California Overview:
YouTube is very much like flickr (profile), but for videos. You can upload videos in a number of different formats ( .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG ). Videos can be of an... |
| Aug 5, 2005 | Update – IceRocket (Link Tracker) | Company: IceRocket (Link Tracker)
Previous Profiles: July 29, 2005, July 31, 2005 What’s New?
IceRocket released their Link Tracker tool for website owners. There are a couple of fairly simple integration options.
This tool will insert a li... |
| Jul 24, 2005 | Profile – FeedShake | Company: FeedShake
Launched: July 21, 2005 (estimated)
What is it?
FeedShake is a website that creates a single RSS feed from multiple RSS feeds. You can also filter out posts that contain specified keywords, and/or filter in posts only if ... |