Skype Group Video Calls – Beta Version

Released earlier this year, Skype Group Video Calling, a beta version for Windows users. In order to use this software everyone in the call must all be using the same version of Skype 5.0, but hey it’s a beta. If this rolls out to other devices then could prove to be a killer app for [...]

Finding The Best Music Website In The World.

Not so long ago I put up a post about a music website that is powered through recommendation called MFlow. Reflecting on what I am doing here is recommending a website to anyone that maybe interested. Some days I also find people recommending to me what sites they use and the word of mouth concept [...]

Web Trends : Apple’s iAds

The other day over the Easter break my five year old nephew asked me a straight forward technology based question, he said “Uncle, can you fast forward the adverts on the television because I hate adverts, they are so boring?” When I got in front of the television, I realised he was watching live TV, [...]

Web Trends : Get Started In Online Marketing Today With Inbound Marketing.

10 years ago, marketing your website required the use of simply adding a few popular key words. This was great for bringing in traffic but the conversion rates were well off the mark. As the dot com bubble burst, website owners demanded much more justification for their marketing budgets and this gave rise to the [...]

Web Trends : More Social Crowd Funding …This Time It’s Fashion.

Focusing on fashion, consumers will soon be able to fund designers directly through a website called FashionStake in return for credits on clothes. This model offers an alternative to purchasing from retailers and the communication channels of this model allows for the unique opportunity of supporting the creative process. Not sure if it will have [...]

The Next Big Website.

Information Gathering was a class I took at university. As a process, this a very important part for researching and creating web applications. However what are the effects of continuous information gathering in one area? 10 years ago, I thought that the refining process of information would happen quite quickly, because information from websites that [...]

Blippy – Fancy Telling The World What & When You Buy Online.

Blippy is a site that allows you to share your online purchasing habits with fellow Internet users. On their website they say that Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying. It works in a similar way to Twitter, in that you follow other users purchasing habits and [...]

#Hashtags – A Way To Follow Trending Topics On The Web.

Many people are used to following people on Twitter. But did you know you can follow topics of conversation by following a topic’s Hashtag. For example, yesterday I blogged about ‘Mothers Who Blog’, but to follow some of the topics around this post I followed the hashtag ‘#bloggybootcamp’ using my TweetDeck. This way I could [...]

Social Media Dashboard By uberVU.

As we begin to use social media more and plan for new campaigns it would be wise to understand the metrics of such activities. A company by the name of uberUV have created a dashboard to help you understand your user engagements across various social media web applications like Twitter, Friend Feed etc based on [...]

Got A Network, Files And Drives On The Increase? …Have You Considered A Data Station?

Do you need to access files from other computers in your home wireless network, or perhaps you need to transfer data from one device to another? Then the Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station could be your calling. Introduced in January and available in the shops now, the device runs on a Linux platform and allows [...]

Boxee – A Social Open Source Media Center.

I recently found myself looking for a new media center software and came across Boxee. It has a slick interface and allows you to access all of your computers from one place, throws in content from the Web and is built on open source, not to mention it runs on Windows, Apple and Linux. The [...]

Web Trends – Recommendation Tools.

There seems to be a few sites out there using the concept of ‘recommendations by other users’. Here’s one from New York called Hunch. Hunch says it gives you customized recommendations and gets smarter the more you use it. One of the current most popular questions was ‘Should I get a TiVo Premiere?’ Funny they [...]

Web Trends : Where Is Facebook Headed?

Facebook is in its prime. Having received $240 million from Microsoft and introducing the Ad system in 2007, the number of users has gone from strength to strength. But where is Facebook going? At the moment Facebook can not only be accessed directly but through various other sites and platforms like Xbox. This is thanks [...]

Music Reborn – Make Recommendations & Get Paid.

Music used to be simple. You heard a track on the radio, you purchased the record, you made tapes. Nice. Then came the Internet, and that all changed. Peer-to-peer file sharing created the need for free music. Although file sharing still continues to exist, there is now a significant market for legal streaming services. Music [...]

Web Browsers – It’s a love hate relationship.

I love browsers. Hey, it’s the reason we surf the web. But lately they have thrown up more issues than need be required. Let’s take a closer look at why I love and hate web browsers. People use different web browsers for different reasons. These reasons range from ‘I have no choice, my company has [...]