Tag: WEB20

Awhile back the brilliant folks behind uTorrent made it known that they were working on bringing a web-based interface to the free, lightweight Windows BitTorrent client. This week they released a new beta version of uTorrent that includes the new WebUI, and I am happy to report that it's fantastic. So, what use is a web-based interface for a desktop program? Well, the WebUI allows you to access ...

sizeasy is one of those simple things that seem kind of obvious but which I probably never would have thought of myself. It's a web service that does one thing: Helps you visualize the size of things when shopping online. You can enter the dimensions of any number objects and then pick a familiar object to compare them to, like a pack of playing cards, a wine bottle, or a standard sheet of paper. ...

Over the past two week there's been an enormous amount of buzz about Kiko, a Web 2.0 calendar whose high-profile sale on eBay for $258,100 sparked speculation about the possible burst of the second dot-com "bubble." What we didn't know until now is who bought Kiko: It's Tucows. Yes, it was the venerable shareware-archive-cum-domain-name-tycoon that bought the start-up's Ajax software, and in a ...

The eBay auction for Kiko, the Web 2.0 calendar app that we reported was on the block last week, has ended. The final price was $258,100, offered by an eBay user called powerjoe1998, who will take home all rights to the Kiko software, web site, and domain name. Kiko team member Richard White has penned a very interesting post-mortem on the details of the service's demise which is a must-read for ...

Amazon has just launched Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2), a "Tier 0" service in the same vein as S3 (Simple Storage Service, launched earlier this year), but for processing power instead of storage. Amazon describes EC2 as "a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud ... designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers." Developers can run anything they want on ...

I'm a big fan of the Ruby programming language, as won't surprise long-time readers, so I'm excited to report that Ruby's progenitors are getting ready to launch the new ruby-lang.org. The new site, which is residing at new.ruby-lang.org while the final bugs are ironed out, has a brand new design which, in my opinion, is a huge step forward. It seems intended to give those who are new to the ...

On our own CEO Jason Calacanis posted on his blog yesterday (hey, he's a businessman. He knows about business, man) that Kiko Calendar - one of the many web 2.0 services that sprung like so many weeds - is up for sale on eBay. Jason's post is, in fact, titled bluntly: "AJAX is not a business model." Now forgive me for pimping our CEO's blog a little too much, but the guy might have a point: could ...

If your software or web design project is struggling through the fog, let Porchlight show you and your team the way. This web-based project management and bug tracking service offers user-specific milestone and project tracking, so members of your team only need to see the tasks that matter to them. Email updates and RSS feeds for projects, as well as a subscribe-able calendar for upcoming ...

Rough Underbelly is a free web-based task-tracker along the same lines as Joe's Goals and with just as much Ajax but with a different, very Web 2.0 interface. Like Joe's Goals, Rough Underbelly is for tracking stuff you want to do every day, like working out, signing new clients, or working on the yard. You can create tasks and assign them point values (10, 5, 2, or 1), and then each day when you ...

I'm going to tell you a secret: With Active Desktop, a feature that has been around since Windows 95, you can turn any personalized home page, nay, any IE-compatible web page at all, into your desktop. Okay, it's not really a secret, but is unknown to many and taken for granted by most. Wallnote, however, is a web app that wants to capitalize on that functionality. It's a note-keeping and ...

Think you could do better than del.icio.us, Furl, and Yahoo! My Web? Well, now's your chance: Scuttle is an open source social bookmarking engine that you can run on your own site. It's based on PHP and supports most of the del.icio.us protocol, meaning developers who have made tools for del.icio.us can easily adapt them to Scuttle. Unfortunately there's no unified feature list for Scuttle, but ...

I used coComment for awhile when it was new, but it didn't take long for me to decide it wasn't really worth the trouble for me. It recently got some new features, however, that may change my tune. Marshall Kirkpatrick at TechCrunch has the scoop. In case you're not familiar, coComment makes it easier to keep track of comments you and other people make on blogs. If you see an interesting ...

Over at Read/WriteWeb Ebrahim Ezzy has written an interesting article called Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search, which inspects some of the next-generation search technologies that are showing up. Ezzy calls Search 2.0 the third generation of search engines (go figure)--whereas first-generation search (e.g. AltaVista) ranked by content and second-generation search (e.g. Google) ranked by link ...

While I'm not nearly convinced by the claim that Empressr is "the first web-based application that lets you create, share and store presentations online" (did it come before Thumbstacks?), it does indeed let you do that, and does it pretty well. It's a Flash-based app, which makes it smooth and responsive, and has most of the features you need to make basic presentations. PowerPoint users will ...

For those that have way too many IM accounts (I'm up to 10 as of last week), a multi-protocol IM client is essential, but what about when you're stuck at an airport kiosk or internet cafe? Meebo is a great option, but as of today there's a new game in town: Kool IM just launched with a cute little ice cube logo and support for AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber. Like Meebo, Kool IM is ...