Snapmania has added a unique feature to its online photo sharing offering: Tourist Remover. Tourist Remover is a free (sign-up required) web based tool which automatically removes the tourists, passing cars, or roaming wild animals from your photographs - allowing you to capture that perfect, lifeless, image of the Sydney Opera House you’ve been […]
Google Finance has recently made its debut, and Yahoo Finance has recently taken a leap ahead, beefing up its offering with many new Web 2.0 features, so why do we need another pretty looking financial information hub? Commission-free trades for one. Backed by Morten Lund, one of Skype’s earliest financiers, Zecco will bring […]
Google’s latest foray into the web based application world brings us Google Spreadsheets - a collaborative web based excel. As was the case with the initial craze surrounding Google’s GMail web based email app, Google Spreadsheets is invite only. You can sign up and wait for Google to send you an invite here, […]
The latest Web 2.0 site we’ve stumbled accross:Listible!. Listible! is another social bookmark type site, but with a small twist. Here you can vote for whether the site is good or bad. For example, of the sites listed under Best Time Wasters, the Falling Sand Game takes the cake.
If there was one thing we still used Yahoo! for it was Yahoo! Finance. Well, as of today we can kick that old bird to the curb and fire up Google Finance. With all of the AJAXy goodness that makes Google Maps and GMail so great, Google Finance brings together interactive financial charts, […]
The highly anticipated “calendar of the future,” 30 Boxes has opened its doors to the public today with their first public beta. 30 Boxes is a web application which allows you to share your calendar with friends, coworkers, or whoever. It also integrates nicely with other web 2.0 applications such as flickr, myspace, […]
If you are anything like us, you use your RSS reader more than your web browser these days - so when you come across a site that doesn’t have a feed, it’s left out of your daily pickings. That’s where Feed43 comes into play. Feed43 (currently in private beta) is a free service […]
Highlighting another practical use of Ajax functionality, the author of this site has created AjaxWhois, a script in which you enter a domain name and it spits out the whois info. It’s fast and simple and you can even download the source code if you want to add the whois search to your own […]
Wrapping up the year with best-of lists is something that journalists cannot seem to get enough of. They do come come in handy however, during the boredom of New Years Day when all of the good bowl games have been monetizingly spread throughout the week. So, if you’re bored and aimlessly hunting and […]
As 2005 comes to a close, there is no doubt that this has been the biggest year for the over-promised Web 2.0 “platform” to date. Web based applications are popping up daily thanks to more powerful web browsers and the use of different programming techniques such as the increasingly popular use of AJAX. […]
