Tag: Web 2.0
Six Apart's Mena Trott on Vox: "We're winning back burned-out bloggers"
It's been quite a year for blogosphere-baroness Mena Trott. In October, Six Apart commercially launched Vox, its blogging-cum-social networking service, following a successful beta. And since then, it's been picking up users at a rapid pace. "People have really embraced…
Goombah music discovery community goes live today
A new community driven music discovery service called Goombah has come out of its beta testing phase today and is now live to sign up to. It's a free desktop application for both PC and Mac that analyses your iTunes…
GPS meets Web 2.0: Everytrail's Joost Schreve in our Friday interview
Forget inviting family and friends round to see 520 prints worth of skiing holiday photos. You know they'll find excuses after the last time anyway. Nowadays, the Web is where you should be sharing your holiday experiences with willing (and…
Tuesday Top 10: fan spots on Fanpop.com
Fanpop is one of Tech Digest's favourite Web 2.0 sites. It lets like-minded 'fans' – of bands, TV shows, hobbies or anything else – band together into communities, sharing interesting links and information on their interest. I interviewed co-founder Dave…
Monday interview: idio founders Edward Barrow and Andrew Davies on their new Web 2.0 digital magazine
idiomag is the point where the Web 2.0 and print publishing worlds collide. It describes itself as "a virtual magazine personalised to your interests", which you might think was just a website. Instead, it really is a virtual magazine, complete…
Social networking site of the day: Zebo
What's this all about then? Zebo claims to be "the world's largest repository of what people own". In other words, a social networking site where you meet people based on your possessions. Like a virtual version of those clubs where…
Tuesday Top Ten: Most common reactions to Google buying YouTube
1. “YouTube would be NOTHING without the videos I made of me lip-synching to Shakira while wearing a nightie and miner's helmet. Where's my cut of the cash?" 2. "Darling, we better order that speedboat…" [only applies to three blokes…