Jobs of Web 2.0

Life will become different as we walk further into the future.

After Steve Jobs

Fresh questions about Jobs' health revive an old dilemma: If the illustrious Apple CEO were to leave (for any reason), who could possibly fill his shoes? more

Pownce

Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.

The Internet's Undersea World

WidgetWebExpo - Widget Analytics

What makes a widget sharable? I mean, what if you could just copy the source of a link and place it on your own site? Does that make it a widget or does the piece of content have to come with a sharing mechanism in order to cross the bridge over to widgetdom?

See the presentation on YouTube below.

Zembly

Zembly is the place to create social applications, together.

With zembly, you easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, targeting the most popular social platforms on the web.

'New York Times' goes social with TimesPeople

The New York Times has added a new feature to its Web site that takes a few cues from Facebook and Digg: TimesPeople, now in beta.

The age-old Magnifying Glass goes digital

People who lose part of their sight to macular degeneration, diabetes or other diseases may now benefit from some new technology. Several portable video devices that enlarge print may help them make the most of their remaining vision.

More Cool Adobe AIR Applications


Adobe AIR applications are nice looking and not so memory-hungry applications. If you don’t already have Adobe AIR installed you can download it for free from Adobe’s website.

New Technology Brings Second Life and WoW to The iPhone

Second Life and World of Warcraft are two the most popular multiuser games, but generally require a laptop or desktop computer. Until now. 3D Streaming technology developed by Comverse and Intel allow 2nd Life for mobile platforms by using a powerful backend server, to compute and render scenes, then smartly compress and stream to a mobile phone.

Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos

Los Angeles based social network MySpace, which has 115 million monthly visitors worldwide (Comscore, April 2008), will be launching a redesign of its site next week. The first phase of the project, internally called “MySpace 2.0,” will launch on Wednesday June 18.

Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop

Dell is wanting to keep up with Apple's design talents. Think they're on the right track?

Starbucks offers new flavor: Free Wi-Fi

Thirsty for more business during the worst slump in its history, Starbucks will try to lure more customers by offering two hours of free AT&T Wi-Fi a day.

Jimmy Wales Reboots His 'Google-Killer'

The Wikipedia founder launches his community-powered search engine--again.

Ballmer predicts the death of all print media in 10 years

In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media.predicting that in 10 years all media will be delivered via the Internet and professed that he is confused by Google's moves in the mobile-phone market.

Wireless Social Networking To Generate $2.5 Trillion By 2020

Wireless social networking products, services, applications, components, and advertising will generate more than $2.5 trillion in revenue by 2020.

Is a New Digital Video Service Derailing Amazon.com?

So what's with the recent downtimes for Amazon's website? The New York Times article sheds some light on this topic.

Is Google Wanting to pick up Digg?

More Digg rumors for your viewing pleasure.

26 Tricks to Help You Tame Google Calendar

Google's free online calendar makes it easy to track your schedule from anywhere, but many of its best features lurk beneath the surface. Here's how to handle Gcal like a pro.

Speed Test on the latest Web browsers



Here's the latest speed test results conducted on Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera 9.5, and Safari for Windows. Take a look at the full (and somewhat unexpected) findings here.

The iPhone FAQ list

There's still a lot of stuff left unsaid about the newly announced iPhone. How does activation work? How will first-gen iPhone users bring an iPhone 3G onto their plan? Does the GPS work for driving? How much will games cost on the App Store? Here are some answers.

Microsoft: We only wanted to buy Yahoo if quickly

In the wake of Yahoo's decision to go with Google, Microsoft's Kevin Johnson explains in a memo why it was no longer willing to buy all of Yahoo.

With iPhone 3G, Next Cellphone Battle Will Be Apple vs. Google



Here's how Google Android could really take down iPhone 2.0 in the upcoming code wars.

Social anxiety, meet social networking

As many surveys have suggested, fear of public speaking is one of our strongest anxieties. The following won't help: These days, the audience could be skewering you on blog sites -- not after your presentation, but during. And just about everyone in attendance could know about it, except you. full story

Corn farmers take anti-Google fight to Washington

If you think there's something a little odd about a bunch of corn farmers lobbying Congress to hold hearings on the details of a Google-Yahoo advertising deal, you may be right.

How Android Will Change Your Shopping Experience Forever

Android application scan finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode. You will be able to source detailed reviews, search online/offline stores for better prices, get directions to other local stores, preview cd's (yes people still buy cd's unbelievably!) and check for books in the local library.

An Easy Wiki...please!

How many of you have said "I won't build a Wiki". If you haven't tried starting one, I'll save you the trouble. It's a colossal pain in the ass. First you have to find the right Wiki engine for your purposes and your server technology. Then you have to decide whether you want to pay for licensing it, or find a version that does what you need for free.

You're wondering: isn't there an easier way to do this in a Web 2.Whatever world? Well, of course there is. Tt just came out this week. It's called Nuospace, and it's a fully web-based, no-coding-required Wiki platform that aims to be a one-stop home base for documents and content that require group collaboration and editing.

3G iPhone Patent App Surfaces: IM, Blogging App, Vid Conf

The US Patent and Trademark Office has recently published an extensive patent application, seemingly for the 3G iPhone and software version 2.0, both now expected to be released next Monday, June 9th.

Femtocells represent signal of change

Devices help improve indoor cell phone coverage, but are still in test phase.

5 Things: Finding People Online

By now, even your toddler knows where and how to locate just about anything on the Web. But unless your friends are all dialed in to the same social network, a white-pages-style directory for finding actual people is often harder to come by. These five services aim to change that.

Wikia Search Offers User-Edited Results

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is trying out the technique that succeeded in putting together an online encyclopedia—opening it up so that anyone can edit it—to improving search results. Wales' user-edited search engine Wikia Search is now out of alpha and open to the public for edits.

Go to Wikia Search

Gmail Gets 13 Experimental New Features


Google will start rolling out Gmail Labs, an experimental area of new Gmail features that will be familiar and very welcome to users of the Better Gmail Firefox extension. More here.

Feeding the Twitter addiction

Twitter - the exploding social Web phenomenon that lets users post 140-character updates to the simple question "What are you doing?" and follow the posts of friends - is very addicting.

Google Gadgets open-sourced for Linux

Google has announced the official release of Desktop Gadgets for Linux and is distributing the source code under the open-source Apache software license.

The 100 Best Products of 2008

This year's tech gems--as picked by PC World editors and readers--will leave you more productive, connected, and entertained.

The best free private journal on the web

Penzu is the most realistic re-creation of paper I've seen on the Web thus far.

Like.com’s Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads

You’ve heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page. Now, get ready for contextual ads triggered by images on the page.

7 Habits of Highly Innovative People

Have you ever looked at super creative or innovative people, and felt they are special beings blessed with gifts? Creativity is actually more psychology than intellect.