Product Reviews WhyGoSolo Bridges Your Online and Offline Worlds WhyGoSolo, a completely self-funded startup from Washington D.C., wants to help you transition your online relationships and friendships to the offline world. For some people, the interactions they have online are so fulfilling that they are overlooking the importance of having real-world relationships. With WhyGoSolo's online community and tools… Sarah Perez View comments
Digital Lifestyle Blu-ray Wins Format War - Much Longer HD Download Battle Lies Ahead Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blog It's official: Toshiba, the leading partner in the HD DVD camp, has waved the white flag. The next generation DVD format war is over. Blu-ray wins. The move to stop production of HD DVD players and recorders was an "agonising decision", according to Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida, but one… Steve O'Hear, last100 editor View comments
Product Reviews Scribd Launches New Platform and iPaper, a New Format for Web Docs Scribd, the online document sharing site, announced today the creation of a new document format built for the web, dubbed iPaper. This web-based viewer lets you view documents in a browser using a Flash-based widget, with no need for software downloads. Also launched today is the Scribd platform, a set of tools that lets anyone use iPaper on… Sarah Perez View comments
Product Reviews Mosso: Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us Outages aside, there's no doubt that the rise of web scale computing platforms, like Amazon's EC2 and S3 services, have lowered the barrier of entry for Internet startups. Going completely serverless would have been unheard of during the late-90s dot com boom, but new cloud computing platforms have made it possible for small companies to scale… Josh Catone View comments
Real World Web 2.0 Meets Medicine: Focused on Communication Bertalan Meskó from the excellent ScienceRoll blog has uploaded a presentation he gave recently at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference. The presentation, embedded below, is a great overview of how the Web is being utilized in the medical profession. I was particularly interested in the story of Dr Jay Parkinson, a Web-savvy doctor… Richard MacManus View comments