Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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