Analysis Feel Good: Top 10 Mood Apps and Visualizers Emotions are everywhere you look on the Web. They're bursting from blogs, coursing through comments, and flooding forums the world over. An with the rise of microblogging apps like Twitter and Tumblr, more people are wearing their hearts on their homepages, so to speak, than ever before. But on the whole is the Internet happy or sad, thoughtful or… Andrew Pipes View comments
Digital Lifestyle Democracy Player Reborn as Miro last100 has the scoop on the rebirth of the open source Internet TV application as Miro: Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Web Apps We Love To Hate This list is a group of companies we wish would just go away. Their basis is controversial to say the least. Recently, Wired published an article Exploring The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing, which shined light on some shady startups. The article discussed the potential downfalls of social media and web 2.0, or at least the seedier activities - e.g… Aidan Henry View comments
Analysis Citizen Journalism Part 2, Localized News - Buffalo Rising and PerthNorg In our introductory post on Citizen Journalism (CJ), we reviewed Newsvine - an innovative and well-designed citizen journalism web site. In this post we'll review two examples of 'localized' CJ: Buffalo Rising (Buffalo, New York) and PerthNorg (Perth, West Australia). A note for our Canadian readers: NowPublic is coming in a future post… Richard MacManus View comments
News Google Leads the Way in Online Video The good news for Google keeps coming from comScore. Yesterday, comScore revealed that despite a slight dip in search marketshare in June, Google's lead over second place Yahoo! in the search engine wars remained virtually unchanged (Microsoft was the only search gainer for the month among the top 5). Today, the metrics firm released numbers… Josh Catone View comments