Streaming media in the future of virtual events

Virtual Edge and Stream57 collaborate to educate and inform on a rapidly changing industry.

WebEx next for the iPhone

With more than 7 million individuals participating in online meetings every month, the Web-based meeting facilities provided by Cisco WebEx (plus uncounted others served up by competitors) have become a ubiquitous means of quickly sharing information when you can’t be there in person.

Psykopaint

Psykopaint is an online photo painting application which uses the color of an image to paint. Very easy and quick to use but very elaborate at the same time.

Every Trail

EveryTrail is an online platform that enables you to visualize your travel experiences and share these with fellow travelers from all over the world. With EveryTrail you can easily upload GPS data you recorded while out on a trip and add your photos and notes, to create a compelling, interactive, visual record of your travel experience. EveryTrail was created by a small group of passionate travelers, out of dissatisfaction with current solutions to share trips.

The 10 Commandments of Social Media

"What do I need to do engage my company, my products, and myself in social media?" The answer is easy: participate.

Facebook is streamlined for Blackberry



Facebook on Blackberry has a more streamlined version of the popular social networking app it codeveloped with Facebook's help.

Songkick's new database makes old concert tickets useful

Band tracker and concert reminder service Songkick is venturing into new territory. The site is launching a feature that lets users chronicle all the shows they've ever been to. Think of it like a virtual shoe box for your old ticket stubs.



Users can either add these shows by hand, or search from a database that includes more than a million concerts. Each show page includes things like set lists, photos, videos, and posters.

CiscoLive!

Don't miss the year's premier education and training event for IT, networking, and communications professionals. See the show in San Francisco June 27-July 2, 2009, for the 20th anniversary of Cisco Networkers.

Palm Pre launching with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube

Palm Pre phone's webOS works great with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube, which are built into the device. You can also easily sync your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts to Palm Pre.

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets

Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool?

No-Fuss Video Conferencing Using Tinychat



Where do you turn if you want to set up a video conference with your team at the drop of a hat? Tinychat is a simple, no-download, no-login chatroom that includes audio/video support and desktop sharing.

TED Global 2009

TEDGlobal 2009 is a full-length TED conference in Oxford, UK, this July 21-24. Four days of amazing speakers, conversation and connection on an intriguing theme: The Substance of Things Not Seen. Some speakers already announced! Learn more about TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford.

What Green Day can teach us about social media

The evolution of a musician or group of musicians is always a fascinating journey to witness. While the changes are seemingly subtle, it’s always fun to go back over the anthology of an artist’s musical works and see how far they’ve come, and how different they are from the beginning.

Smart Mobs Revisited

Howard Rheingold presents at Mobile Mondy in Amsterdam. Well worth watching.

Ficly

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.

You can start a story or jump into someone else's tale. The possibilities are endless, and in some cases, so are the stories.

MultiURL

MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website.

For example, you want to share the list of common search engines you know:

http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.msn.com

MultiURL will combine these links into one short link: http://www.multiurl.com/g/5 or http://www.multiurl.com/l/5

FeedMingle makes lives simpler for web designers/developers, feed readers, bloggers, or just anyone who wants to merge two or more RSS / Atom feeds into one. It mixes all the feeds provided and creates one RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, and a html widget to simply paste into your website or blog.

iPhone 3G (s)



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Moblin: A Netbook OS to Watch

Intel's Linux-based netbook operating system gives Windows a run for its money.

Sanpdragon

A new breed of ability and mobility.

Paystr

Paystr is a 100% free, secure, online listing and payment site. You will notice everything on this site is done so that you can quickly be paid by individuals or groups and or pay someone yourself without having to setup up accounts where they hold your money. Watch the YouTube video below then visit the site.

What's happn.in on Twitter in your city?

Happn.in collects and aggregates popular phrases used on Twitter within 20 miles of major cities. The five most popular phrases each hour are posted to this site, and are tweeted three times a day to the happn.in Twitter account for each city. To follow happn.in for your city, click the link below your city's list on the home page.

Zensify for iPhone aggregates your social networks


"All your networks are belong to us." That could be the tagline for Zensify, a new iPhone app that lets you view, update, and share content from multiple social networks.

The Netflix of audiobooks

Booksfree.com is a service that solves the audiobook money pit the same way Netflix bailed out DVD addicts. Users pay a flat fee for a monthly subscription, and receive a rotation of audiobook CDs sent to them by mail. Booksfree isn't the first audiobook service to try the Netflix model, but it's one of the most affordable, with subscriptions as low as $10.99/mo.

Google vs. Amazon

Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market.

Gapminder

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. They're a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

Twitter Tools


Here's a list with 27 Twitter tools, to help you find more followers, manage them, find who doesn’t follow you back, who stops following, statistics and much, much more.

RotorBlog

RotorBlog.com was founded in May 2006 by Maris Dagis in order to provide latest Web 2.0 news and startup reviews, later focusing on social networks and online communications. Reaching 160k readers monthly it has became one of the most popular sources of information for people using Internet to communicate.

The homeless stay wired


Mr. Pitts lacks a mailing address, but he's got a computer and a web forum.

Bing

Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected.

Google Wonder Wheel: Exploring Related Keyword Search Queries



Somehow feeling guilty this has not surfaced on infosthetics before, but here it is anyway. Google recently introduced its so-called Wonder Wheel [google.com] as an addition to its normal results page. Read the rest of the article here...don't miss the YouTube video about Wonder Wheel.

Can Boxee's Web Software Capture More TV Screens?


The streaming video startup has charmed Apple and Linux users and alarmed networks and cable providers. Now Boxee aims to serve Windows.

10 Commandments of PowerPoint

One of the unavoidable things about college, and increasingly work life, is PowerPoint. Most of us have, at one point or another, had to slap some slides together and give a presentation to our friends, family, class, co-workers, or boss.

Office 2010

Microsoft is set to launch an invitation-only Technical Preview Program of the new Office in July.

Okimok

A free real-time social network platform that allows users to instantly share photos from your iPhone with friends by using a superdeluxe slideshow. Install the iPhone App, upload your photos and watch your photo stream online. Twitter settings available too.

Google adds new filters, visualized results

Google introduced three new enhancements to its search engine, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves.

New search engines aspire to supplement Google

Google dominates the search world, but some sites are trying to expand the possibilities. And, despite what you may think, Google is not the only player.



New search engines that are popping up across the Web strive to make searches faster, smarter, more personal and more visually interesting.

Peek

Not every gadget needs a carnival of features. Take the Peek, which tackles just a single task: mobile email. No phone, no browser, no camera—and no apologies. It won't satisfy convergence-rabid smartphone fetishists, but for the rest of the world (i.e., the majority of it), this one-trick pony is a godsend.

Kiss your phone bill good-bye



Silicon Valley startup Ooma wants to help you connect your home electronics for cheap - starting with your phone.

Next best thing to "teleporting"?

Tech companies push "telepresence" videoconferences as substitute for air travel, but prices deter widespread adoption.

The Future of Healthcare...its in your hand(set)

Cell phones changed everything in emerging markets. Isolated communities got a taste of access and upward mobility they’d never known before. Entire economies shifted as people were able to leapfrog roadblocks to communication. Now mobile technology is promising to transform healthcare in the same way.

Akamai is a key partner in TED's mission to share Ideas Worth Spreading.

Akamai's rich media management, dynamic transaction, and application acceleration services, quite simply, help build the backbone of the Internet. Watch 5 videos about cloud computing and Akamai's core technologies.

Flackr

Breaking news as it comes in.

Death of the Hydrogen Economy

Obama's budget puts hydrogen fuel-cell research out of its misery--almost.

Twitter...the new business card?

Is the traditional paper business card on the way out? You judge.

Is Real-time the Future of the Web?

It’s clear that the Web has altered how we as a society consume information. Not only has Internet communication made information more accessible, but social media has made it easier to organize, filter, and most of all, create. Watch the video below and then read the article.

Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel

Co-founder and current Chairman Jack Dorsey sent out a tweet letting his followers know that he was, “Getting ready to embark on something new and entirely different. Excited!”

Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can't

Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research's "computational knowledge engine," set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be afraid of?

Seesmic CEO on the business of Twitter

Seesmic Desktop, as we've written previously, is the successor to the popular Twitter/Friendfeed client Twhirl. It looks like it will be very competitive to TweetDeck soon, although it has a few UI glitches at the moment.

Read CNET article

Kindle DX

Meet the new Kindle by Amazon.

The future is going to be very exciting

The head of Google's new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life - no wonder he is so optimistic.

Meet Cisco, the Consumer Company



With its recent acquisitions, it's positioning itself to be a big player in home entertainment.

The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next



Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations.

Read article here.

TEDIndia 2009 -- The Future Beckons

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TEDIndia 2009 offers a vision of the future that's rich with invention, entrepreneurship and sensory delight. In a country that’s reinventing itself – and reshaping the world … Learn more here >>

Reach out and ping someone

Wireless phone companies still reap the lion's share of their revenue from calls, but they're pinning their hopes on fast-growing data services.

Skywrite.me

This is a new take on microblogging where your short messages are displayed as a sky written message over cities. Its a really fun and interesting way to show off your messages.

Kickstarter



A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, athletes, inventors, bloggers, philanthropists, explorers and more.

FairSpin lets you see all the top political news from left to right. Click on titles to read stories, decide for yourself if they are biased, then vote your mind. Every vote makes FairSpin more accurate and useful.

What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6

This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research.

Quicken Online gets iPhone companion app

Intuit has just released a handy, free iPhone app to accompany its free online financial service, Quicken Online.

Preview all your fonts

Depending on how much design work you've done, and what kind of software you're using, you probably have some idea of which fonts you have installed and what they look like. If you don't, there's a wonderfully simple Web app called Flipping Typical that gives you a WYSIWYG heads up of all of them at once.

50 million by Summer

As expected when it released its US figures earlier this month, Comscore's latest stats show thatTwitter continues its march forward with an estimated 20 million users worldwide.

According to TechCrunch, if Twitter can keep this up then it should be at 50 million odd users by the Summer, after which point it would well and truly no longer be 'niche.'

You can now post pics to Twitter from Picnik

Picnik has a new and simple way of distributing photos you've just edited in your browser. Using application programming interfaces from Photobucket's TwitGoo photo-hosting service and Twitter, it lets you compose a tweet that includes a link to the photo right inside of the editor.

Five Twitter Analytics Tools You Might Find Addictive

Many would argue that numbers shouldn’t count on Twitter. Most of the users who make this argument use Twitter for the purpose of personal enjoyment and interaction, so the argument makes perfect sense. But what if you really have a message you want to get out to as many people as possible? What if you’re concerned with the issue of having a growing influence on behalf of your brand, your story, your faith, etc.?

Channel.tv

A new media platform showcasing exclusive underground content from artists across the world.

TwitPub invents paid Twitter accounts


Someone has invented a paid access scheme for Twitter. TwitPub is a marketplace where Twitterers can sell access to their updates, by registering their protected accounts with the service. Other Twitter users sign up and pay for access to these accounts on the TwitPub marketplace. TwitPub takes 20 percent of the subscription revenue for itself and gives 80 percent to its publishers.

YouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor



YouTube on Thursday released a new Web-based application called CaptionTube that lets users add text captions to their videos.

Founded by Tariq Krim in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the personalized homepage as alternative to traditional web portals. Netvibes lets individuals assemble their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the web - all in one place.

Chrome update offers tab micromanaging

A new developer preview version of Google's browser lets people switch off the array of Web page thumbnails on new-tab pages. Also an 'undo close tab' command.

BumpTop



Your desktop doesn't have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop. Create the desktop that suits your needs and style.

Google, Universal to Launch Music Hub 'Vevo'

Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one.

Apple Patent Hints at Answering Machine Message


Apple's patent points to automatically sending an audio or video reply to an iChat call .

Google and Microsoft go for Twitter Advertising Deal

Google and Microsoft are in a bidding war over Twitter.

Nambu

A free social messaging client for Mac OSX and iPhone. See and respond to real-time updates from Twitter and other social messaging services. Beta.

Woya

A new shopping analytics website for consumers. Tracks and analyzes prices of consumer electronics based both structured (e.g. retail sites) and non-structured (e.g. classified listings) data sources on the web. Each week, over 3 million deals from online marketplaces (Amazon, CNet, eBay, Craigslist, just to name a few) for 250 thousand products are processed by Woya. There's also an alert system for users.

Xcerion’s iCloud, a free “web OS” that's launched into public beta with some interesting collaboration features, although limited cross-browser support will be off-putting for many.

P.U.M.A.


GM and Segway showed off a two-wheel prototype vehicle based on Segway's scooter platform that lets two people tool around the city at 35 miles an hour on electric power. GM touted the vehicle's OnStar wireless communications to let people communicate with each other and stay clear of other vehicles. Go to Segway/Puma here

Battle of the multicolumn Twitter clients

There was a time, not long ago, when the power Twitter users were gaga for Twhirl. This Air app gave (and still gives) you quick access to different views of your Twitter network, as well as your FriendFeed stream. But Twhirl didn't last as the go-to client once the Twitterati discovered TweetDeck. Read the article.

Mobile start-ups Brightkite, Limbo to tango



Brightkite, one of the half-dozen or so companies vying for market share in the location-based social-networking space, has merged with another mobile start-up called Limbo. The official branding of the company will be Brightkite now, but its home base will now be at Limbo's headquarters in Burlingame, Calif.

The power of a tiny picture (how to improve your social network brand)

If it's important enough for you to spend your time finding and connecting with new people online, it's important enough to get the first impression right.

Google Turns Tweets Into Ad Dollars

Here’s a real, confirmed tie-up between Twitter and Google: The search engine is giving marketers the chance to turn their Twitter messages into ads.

MindJet and the World of Mind-Mapping


Mind-mapping apps such as MindManager and MindView to be a little clunky and over-engineered. Sometimes, you literally want to sketch some thoughts quickly, with little concern for presentation or correctness. As luck would have it, now across Markus Müller’s Mindnode,

Find information around the webpage you are viewing

Ambiently is a startup company, developing web discovery engine applications. Envisioning the broad usage and benefits of creating a page-centric "ambient web" for every page on the web, Ambiently aims to create a new, richer web browsing and search experience for all web users.

Google Execs in Secret Layoff Meetings

More layoffs are coming to Google, employees there believe. A Googler tells us top executives abruptly cancelled meetings across the Googleplex Friday.

Review on the Decline of Global Warning Concerns

View more presentations from Taly Weiss.

David Pogue: When it comes to tech, simplicity sells

Twitter to Expand Search Via Discovery Engine

Twitter is looking to roll out a more integrated search feature, which cofounder Biz Stone calls a Discovery Engine.

Listening in a Digital Age

Listening to the wants and needs of your markets and customers has always been a good idea. Any good salesperson can tell you the benefits of listening - if you do it right the prospect will always reveal how to get the sale.

Internal cloud's big test: Amazon vs. Cloudera

The debate about the validity of internal cloud implementations has raged on for some time now, with some claiming that cloud computing and wholly owned infrastructure don't mix.

HTC Touch Diamond

It’s certainly been a long time coming, but thanks to one our faithful Verizon ninjas we now know that Verizon is all set for the launch of its custom variant of the HTC Touch Diamond for all B2B, web and telesales customers come April 10.

Veggie Trader

A free resource for people who want to sell or trade fruits and vegetables that they've grown themselves. Commit to sustainability by not letting the fruits of your labor go to waste, and get yummy foods in return.

How to listen in a bad economy

You know we listen all the time don’t we? We keep telling companies to do it, but sometimes we just leave it at that. Or even worse, we don’t get specific. Here's a list [67] social medial/web/reputation management tools and sites.

Design for Mobile 2009

The second annual DesignForMobile, to be held in Lawrence, Kansas (near Kansas City), extends this welcome: “Speakers come from academia, industry, design, and research. We’re all interested in the user experience, but we come from many different disciplines to share.”

We The People Do Tweet


TweetCongress allows you to contact your government representative via Twitter and petition them. Phone numbers, fax numbers and websites are listed for each representative. You can also petition non-Twitter Congress representatives to join and have direct conversations with their constituents.

Slideline from Yahoo!

Watch, search and monitor the public Twitter timeline in real-time with this Adobe AIR desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

TwitDiscounts

Find all tweets that mention a special discount.

Chartbeat

A real-time website analytics and uptime monitoring service free for 30 days. Includes bells, whistles and all sorts of neat little do-hickeys. There is an Intro offer currently running at $9.95/mo vice the normal $15.95, you can also cancel at anytime.

Nomee

An all-in-one (Adobe AIR) social networking application that's not a social site, but a tool that helps manage them all. Nomee simplifies online networking by organizing your contacts and interests all in one place. So you can focus directly on your people, not their sites. And your people can better know you, direct from their desktop.

Google thinking of buying Twitter?

Google is in "late stage" talks to acquire microblogging service Twitter, according to a report on Thursday on TechCrunch citing two unnamed sources.

Twitter Trends: Twist


Twist is a tool that allows you to track trends on Twitter, similarly to what Google Trends does for Google searches. It gathers tweets as they are posted, filters redundant ones and compiles the rest into two-hour intervals.