Social Networks Yumondo Brings "Urban Stylesharing" to Social Networking Yumondo is an "urban stylesharing" social network startup currently in private beta testing, that claims it will set new standards for community on Web 2.0. The site approaches community from a place and style standpoint. The vision is obviously one of creating local communities that branch outward (from a distinct place or location), rather than… Social Phil Butler View comments
Browsers Google Gears in Context - Browser Gets a Boost From Google Google has released a browser plug-in called Gears, which enables people to use web apps while offline. The technology behind the plug-in gives developers the ability to implement offline functionality into their browser-based web apps. Gears is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera. We've written many times… Richard MacManus View comments
News Big Media Snapping Up Web 2.0 Startups - CBS, eBay, Fox, Google Announce Acquisitions Today Update: Google has acquired Panoramio, a website that links millions of photos with the exact geographical location where they were taken. It's all happening today! (original post) A lot of acquisition news has been released today, with the common theme that Big Media is buying successful web 2.0 startups. First it was CBS acquiring last.fm for… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Evolution of Communication: From Email to Twitter and Beyond We barely have time to pause and reflect these days on how far communications technology has progressed. Without even taking a deep breath, we've transitioned from email to chat to blogs to social networks and more recently to Twitter. Here is my representation of the current ecosystem, which we will explore in this post: Alex Iskold View comments
web Streaming Internet TV Programming Guide Lauches Find Internet TV today launched what they say is the first online guide to live Internet television streams. Even though their new TV Listings page currently only display information on about 50 of the 600 channels in their database of TV stations that stream content online, this guide puts Find Internet TV a step ahead of similar guides to… Josh Catone View comments