Tag: Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: SciTalks
The perfect science lecture? It should be delivered by an absent-minded boffin in a jumper that hasn’t been washed for seventeen years, must require covering a huge whiteboard in indecipherable equations, and needs to involve several explosions, of which at least one must be unplanned.
VideoJug adds thousands of 'Ask The Expert' videos
I’m a big fan of VideoJug, which offers a wealth of how-to videos on subjects including making the perfect Tequila Sunrise cocktail, changing a car tyre, and caring for giant African Millipedes. I think that last one involves shedloads of sock-washing.
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: Tapatap
Tapatap is a US-based startup with an interesting spin on the social networking phenomenon. The best way I can describe it is like Flickr meets Am I Hot Or Not?, since the idea is to create ‘contests’ where you and friends upload photos and then rate each others’ to decide which is best.
Apple to sell iTunes music downloads through Bebo
The crossover between music and social networking isn’t a new idea, as anyone who’s spent a happy few hours listening to deathcore grindie bands on MySpace will know. Or is that just me?
WWDC 2007: Get set for iPhone Web 2.0 applications
Is iPhone a closed platform as far as developing applications goes? Not any more. The last announcement at today’s Apple WWDC show concerned Apple’s upcoming handset, and the way it’ll run Web 2.0 apps built to look and behave just like the ones on the iPhone itself.
Review: Ask3D – Ask's revamped search engine
I’m choosing to forget Ask’s rather bizarre ‘propaganda’ advertising of their new search “Ask 3D” search engine as I take a look at how effective it is as a tool, and whether it’s going to pose a threat to Google.
There’s more to Ask3D than the slightly shiny, icon-based eye candy that greets you when you arrive at their front page.
Both Google and Ask are keen to offer a more holistic approach to search results. A search for “Steve Jobs” in Google brings up the usual listing of results, but interspersed with news and video. It’s easy to find these items by scrolling through the results, but they’re not particularly distinct at first glance.
Ask, on the other hand, clearly separates regular web pages, listed in the middle column, from multimedia content and the latest news, displayed in sections in the right-hand column. It’s an elegant layout, marred only slightly by the “Sponsored Results” boxes which don’t integrate as well as their Google counterparts, and can sometimes take up to half of the screen before search results are displayed.
Today on Tech Digest: Microsoft Surface, Apple iTunes Plus, Last.fm and more
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Daily Telegraph recreates its Chelsea Flower Show garden in Second Life
Though the real Chelsea Flower Show is now over for another year, the Daily Telegraph has recreated its garden in Second Life, claiming it to be the first of its kind in the virtual 3D world.
Inhabitants of Second Life can view the virtual garden by logging on and visiting the Kensington and Chelsea area of the virtual world (where else?)
Could Facebook's third-party applications be a MySpace killer?
That’s what top venture capitalist Josh Kopelman reckons, anyway. Okay, so he doesn’t say the phrase ‘MySpace killer’, but he suggests that Facebook’s new third-party applications could leave MySpace looking like Prodigy or AOL from the early days of the internet, who tried to hang onto their roles as proprietary gatekeepers until they realised everyone else had moved on.
