Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
What do you know, Twitter issues. When I try going to twitter it says:
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
The TechCrunch50 continues today and into tomorrow. From what I can gather it is conference of basically 50 online start-ups who each give a presentation that explains and demos their site/service.
Today there is a panel of some sort of "judges" that are giving feedback on each company that gives their ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
12Seconds.tv launched in late July with a Twitter-like purpose. Let others know where you are and what you're doing, but 12Seconds does it with video -- up to 12 seconds worth at a time.
Mowing on 12seconds.tv
Embedded above is 12Seconds user tw3nty3ight mowing grass.
One point ABC News makes in its ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Don't know why, but I'm now on "micro-blogging" service Twitter. Find me at www.twitter.com/dipps. My "tweets" will also be here at Nearly A Nerd in a widget on the right sidebar. Also grabbed Twitterrific for the iPhone, but haven't got a chance to use it.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Muxtape allows you to make and share mixtapes, only without the tape and in mp3 form. Create a free account, then upload and arrange up to 12 tracks. You'll then have a custom URL to share. Users can also subscribe to other user's RSS feeds and become "fans" of muxtapes.
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Go check out the Climate Time Machine, an interactive thingy from NASA. If you have speakers or headphones you may want to kill the somewhat ominous music that starts by default. Why do sites still do this?
Choose either Ice Melt, Sea Level, CO2 Emissions or Average Global Temperature from the ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Interior of The Washington Court Hotel in D.C.
Snowmass Village, CO
Check out EveryScape.com if you haven't already. It's kind of like Google street view -- serving up seemless panoramas of select slices of the world -- only with EveryScape, you can also go inside (certain) buildings and look around. There's a ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Wowio.com offers up free Ebooks in the PDF form. I heard about this site from the I Read Comics podcast. And rightly so because Wowio serves a good number of comics and graphic novels from scores of publishers. The absence of DC and Marvel proves not much of a surprise. ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Pictured above: a horrid screengrab from the gadgets section of Alltop.com on April 4, 2008.
Alltop.com aggregates all the top sites on the web. Its main page lists 10 main categories:
Work
Living
Culture
Interests
Geekery
People
Good
News
Geos
Sports
Choose a subcatagory, let's say gadgets (like the screenshot) under Geekery, and Alltop spits out headlines from related sites and blogs ...
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