Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

Twitter Failure? Surely Not

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.

TechCrunch50 Conference

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 ...

12Seconds.tv: The video Twitter

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 ...

I’m Now on Twitter, yea

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.  

Muxtape: MP3 mixtapes

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.

NASA Climate Time Machine Interactive

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 ...

EveryScape

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 ...

Wowio.com — ‘Free Ebooks. Free Minds.’

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.  ...

Alltop.com

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 ...