Web 2.0

DocStoc Giving Away iTouch for Most Docs

Startup doctoc (competitor to startup scribd) is giving away a free iPod Touch every week this month to the user that uploads the most documents each week.
Since the sites launch last week, they say they’ve “had thousands of documents uploaded”.
Sign up to get started, but you’ll have some work to do in order to catch […]

Footnote - Millions of Historical Documents Online

Wow, Footnote is an impressive resource which launched last week that allows users to access and annotate millions of historical documents online apparently for the first time.  Interested in the Civil War or perhaps the Federal Bureau of Investigation? Just look it up on Footnote and within seconds you can view digitized copies of the […]

Trillian Eying Meebo with Online IM

Cerulean Studios is the creator of Trillian, an installed desktop instant messenger app that lets you connect to multiple IM networks simultaneously, but they are looking to move into the Online world that Meebo has already well established themselves in.
I’ve been a diehard Trillian user since they first launced in 2000. Their app has always […]

Will 2007 be the Year of the Wiki OR of the Mashup?

CenterNetworks.com editor Allen Stern wrote today about the the hot topics of 2006, Wiki’s and Mashups and what their effect on the upcoming year 2007 will be.
Check out his review here then come back to vote on which one you think will dominate in ‘07:

Which one will dominate in ‘07?

Wiki without a doubt.

Mashup for sure.

Neither, […]

A “Different” Type of Conference for Startups

Today TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington and Weblogs founder Jason Calacanis announced their collaboration and partnership on a brand new idea in conferences … “The TechCrunch20″.
This conference will cost the presenter nada … that’s right $0. The creators feel that the big “payola” conferences out there today like DEMO simply cost more than the average, good-to-great startup […]

Zoho Notebook Announced

Today Zoho, maker of online the suite of web-based “office like” tools, announced their brand new still-in-development Zoho Notebook. It’s impressive! They say they’re not ready to launch until March, but man do I wish it was ready now because I could really put it to good use.
In a post on their blog they says […]

Web 2.0 in 2006 Mobile 2.0 in 2007

Well 2006 is coming rapidly to a close and that very recognizable term Web 2.0 is apparently ready to move aside to it’s predecessor Mobile 2.0.
This year the formula was Simple Colors / Vector Images + AJAX = Web 2.0

In 2007 the Portable Internet seems to be the way things are headed, but are users […]