Socialstream is a project of a new social network that is currently developed at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project is sponsored by Google and it has to improve the shortcomings and to extend the functionalities of the Google’s social network Orkut. (more…)
On the corporative blog of a friend of mine I saw a link to a curious online resource. ProgrammableWeb is a website containing a kind of a directory for Mashups. For those readers who never head or don’t quite understand the meaning of this term, I give a brief explanation. A Mashup is a website that uses (more…)
The Enlish translation for Peterzahlt service is “Peter pays”. This is a German online service that offers to make absolutly free calls around Europe. The main difference to such VoIP services as Skype, Msn etc. is that you don’t need to install any software or to have a headset. (more…)
Today I found a funny startup Left or Right with a very simple idea at the base. There are two large pictures on the site and the visitors just give their votes for the left or for the right one. Every user can send his own suggestion of subjects to the administration of the website. (more…)
In February 2007 a new Web 2.0 startup with a melodic name midomi was launched. The visitors of midomi web site can search for music and singers by singing or humming. The search engine compares your record with its database. Of course there is also a way to execute the search in the traditional manner. The midomi users can create (more…)
I can’t help admiring such web projects as Twitter! When I see “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?” I just jump up like a ball and start to applaud loudly. Such a simple idea that gave a birth to a web platform gathering a huge amount of people (more…)