Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

Just the sites from Techcrunch’s guide to music on the web

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Techcrunch recently posted a post about music sites called "Your Guide to Music on the Web -- Part 1".  Here are the sites it includes: Pandora Last.fm Deezer Finetune Amie Street Jamendo SoundCloud TheSixtyOne Project Playlist Jiwa.fm Jogli MixTube Lala Musicovery CitySounds.fm Jango RadioBeta TheRadio Aupeo Tun3r Play.fm Some of the sites/services are very similar and some are naturally better than others, but all are worth briefly checking  if you admire tuneage.  ...

‘We Choose the Moon’ to recreate Apollo 11 mission

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

In approximately 19 hours, We Choose The Moon will enter "stage 2" and the Apollo 11 moon mission will be recreated in real time.  I'm not exactly sure of the recreation details, but from what appears on the site currently, it looks like there could be a audio stream between ...

Fund Endeavors and Ideas with KickStarter

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Kickstarter is a fairly new way to fund various ideas and undertakings.  People who wish to fund a project -- say a musician, a filmmaker, an artist, etc. -- sign up on Kickstarter and anyone who wishes to pledge toward it can do so and may receive "rewards" (such as ...

Google Latitude Launches (with bugs?)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Google Latitude, a web and mobile phone service that shows where your friends are on a map, has gone live.  However, it seems to have a few kinks left in it as the above iPhone screen grab shows.  Right now it doesn't seem to work at all on my iPhone. ...

Free Rhapsody Alternatives

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

For streaming music on demand, Rhapsody reigned supreme for a long time.  That time, I believe, is now over.  For one thing, Rhapsody has no downloadable client for Mac.  You must stream from their site.  But the biggest letdown is the cash money it costs.  Sure, it is a richer ...

ABCnews’ ‘Around the Web in 2008′ — new sites for 2008

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

ABCnews.com compiled a list of Web sites new in 2008. To save you the trouble of clicking through six pages littered with ads, I will now list them with a brief description: Webgiftr -- "is a social website that makes gift giving easy and fun" Hitchsters -- "helps you share taxis ...

To Satellite Radio or Not — Part 1: XM

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Not to totally knock satellite radio, but from what I've experienced so far, it is just not worth it. I recently signed up for a free XM trial online.  Limited to roughly 80 channels, the trial lasts only a few days and takes place entirely online where it seems all the ...

American Legion launches VetCam

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Members of the American Legion can now sign up for VetCam, a free video conferencing website that allows Legion members to talk face to face with friends and family in the Armed Forces without either party having to download additional software. Looks like it's Windows only however: For this free one-on-one video ...

New York Times Visualization Lab

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Friend Tim Showers did a blog post not too long ago called "Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents" where he introduced me to a Wordle.  A Wordle is also embedded above from the NY Times Visualization Lab.  I haven't explored the Times site extensively, but it looks like there are some ...

The Election on Twitter

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Damn you Twitter.  You are always coming up with blog worthy stuff.  This time it is some spiffy election page.  It basically a big filter to show only election related tweets, you know, tweets with the candidates and/or VP candidates names in them.  And the interface is slick because it ...