Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category

Remove Unwanted Tourists from your Photos

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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 […]

Zecco: Commission-free Internet Trades

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

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 […]

eBay: Google Spreadsheets Invites

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

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, […]

Listible!: Quick Way to get Resources

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

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.

Google Finance Launches

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

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, […]

30 Boxes Web Calendar Open to Public

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

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, […]

Turn any URL into a Feed

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

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 […]

AjaxWhois: Fast Whois Info

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

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 […]

Best Web 2.0 Apps of 2005

Friday, December 30th, 2005

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 […]

Clipmarks: Another Solid Web 2.0 Idea

Monday, December 26th, 2005

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. […]