Weight Loss and Fitness in Web 2.0
traineo | Weight Loss Community
Traineo and a number of web 2.0 fitness sites were covered recently on CNET. Here’s the link. I asked a seriel dieter about these sites and her concern was they have the body fascist feel about them. Images of lean, fit worked-out young lasses. The type in fact who don’t need [...]
DVD Exchanges Grow in Popularity
Exsila - Tausch-Community für DVDs
At least they are growing in popularity with entrepreneurs in Europe. Exsila is a Swiss project. I came across it on the Swiss Ventures website who point out that Exsila is a clone of Hitflip, a German DVD sharing site but which might equally be a clone of peerflix. Seems [...]
Mobile Services Ramping Up in European Web 2.0
This past couple of weeks has seen activity around a number of mobile services inEurope. A couple of days back Zinadoo in Ireland announced its new mobile web site building service, which we blogged here earlier. We also made reference to ebuddy which lets users take their IM service on the road, and [...]
Down in the Googledom
Yesterday had the hallmarks of a down-on-Google day which might be regarded as a sad case of envy or a recognition that the Web waits for no man, woman, company or stellar brand.
A couple of years back the Washington Post wrote that coverage of Google sometimes resembles that of swimmer Michael Phelps (who is he? [...]
Podcasts Mashed, Turning into Channels
Yet-to-launch Podango is trying to corner the podcast market by aggregating popular, topic-specific podcasts into expert-driven channels. The goal is to combine multiple podcasts, which may only be publishing weekly, into a 3-5 shows per day channel with a single RSS feed. Just like old-style television and radio stations.
Techcrunch
This one was from techcrunch but it’s [...]
Will DIGG and Netscape Take Share From Google
As people are choosing to discover information through Digg, Netscape and social bookmarks the impact will surely be felt sooner or later at Google. Google is my least important referrer.
I posted below about a feature of my blog stats that may be simply a result of me being lousy with Good search engine optimisation. I’m [...]
What Will Happen to Mobile Content?
Ajit Jaokar is CEO of futuretext, a London based publisher that is documenting the future of mobile so a good person to talk to about where mobile content is headed.
I came to this conversation by way of Steve McCormack who runs Wildwave, a Dublin provider of mobile content to operators worldwide. Steve was pointing [...]
Green Living, Grist Show the Way With Neglected Content Channels
Green Living is a new content channel airing over the web out of Venice California. I happen to love the look and feel of the site and seeing raw food and green living chefs there is an exciting development.
“Our new daily show, called G Living LIVE, brings to the world, the very first daily Modern [...]
Niche Channels Developing Newspaper/Magazine Quality
Projects like Netscape’s new news portal, leaving aside the spikey comments the new service has attracted, give a boost to smaller-scale projects such as Hotelchatter, armchairgm, jaunted.
Respectively a hotel recommender site, a sports-news-from-users site, and a travel site, these are rock-solid examples of tomorrow’s magazines and specialist news-pages.
They ought to have us questioning [...]
Web 2.0 For Every Day Life
At a workshop on the future of audio-visual search a while back a Nokia executive talked about the digitisation of everyday life as a guiding principle behind the company’s development programme.
The logic is simple. People will want to digitise all aspects of their behaviour and history. The simplest way to do that is with [...]