Browser wars are nothing new. One new contender, however, is advertising quite smartly and might shove my more superior browser off the table if I don’t tell you to use it! Social web browsing is seeing feeds, media, video and RSS updates from one screen. Flock and Rockmelt has it. Flock, though, has it better.

I’m not on the lookout for “new” sites, but bumped into the perfect site for thsoe of us who like surveys, personalized suggestions and polls that never end comparing us to strangers around the globe. It’s Hunch.com and the model they seem to use is a positively A+ 100% money-maker that’s discreet, perfectly tailored to each visitor and is only there when I want it. Hunch.com could teach every last Web 2.0 site a thing or two…

I’ve even spoken with experts and experienced computer users who fear the Social Network driven Web 2.0 “stuff” out there. Good news! Before I got to busy with Ruby on Rails to update the site everyday, I bounced around with Web 2.0 services like Facebook, MyBlogLog, Flock, friendfeed, Flickr, PodCastAlley, MySpace, Seesmic, Ma.Gnolia and OpenID and received absolutely stunning results without more effort. I expect that this won’t fully sway skeptics, but you should hear what benefits came from my work of several days in plumbing the depths on your behalf.

I just had to interrupt myself in the middle of a big task when I saw Flock’s new update add visited PAGE TITLES to the browser’s address bar as I began to type in PIPES for pipes.yahoo.com

FLICKR – It’s a free resource for digital camera owners to use to share and organize their photos and promote their portfolios far beyond the reach of friends if they choose. Flickr began by mistake when Ludicorp employees, charged with designing a video game as the company’s debut project, developed a rudimentary system for sharing images and photos with co-workers.

Little widget blog and news boxes that update you on everything that’s going on in the world seem to rule the day. Well how could this author stay away?

As an invocation to the muse of Web 2.0, I’ve tried to plunge head-first into Social Networking services I used to shun only to bump my head on deadends. Ma.Gnolia shares webpage bookmarks very simply. To install it at Dinarius which is run by Textpattern CMS database magic, Ma.Gnolia requested the location of my XML-RPC server something something dot php.

Funny thing about being told to join all the Web 2.0 services… Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification …and then some.

You can now reach your goals and change your life if you read this article. Read ten sales-energizing tips that are fooling new webmasters into creating ideas that are killing the Internet.

In examining the stability of Cloud-based app engines of which I’ve always been skeptical by reason of erring on the side of caution, I stumbled on to a text app from TechCrunch that tested Google’s Cloud-based app engine, AppEngine. It’s a basic voting system that scours TechCrunch’s CrunchBase (database) and delivers a company name and logo and allows you to vote its reputation UP or DOWN. If you’re not familiar with the company, you can click on the logo to transfer yourself to the CrunchBase description. It’s all quite nice and could be less transferry, but it’s a very neat and practical way to learn about many of the new companies out there in the big web.

http://appengine.crunchbase.com/

Opening Up A No-Brainer. Special-Section

IMHO, a path for certain disaster was clearly laid out. Don’t allow data portability, maintain a closed, mono-culture and victimize your subscribers with advertisments designed for print media. In short, do what AOL did. Today’s report of Facebook making their platform an open source project does surprise me somewhat after all this talk about data portibility.

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19 May 2008

Starting A Start-up. Terminology. For-Webmasters

Any search for information begins with knowing the right terminology. When trying to start a start-up and attract investors so they provide Seed Money, Venture Capital or VC, you have to show them a few things too. A good idea just isn’t enough when dealing with people who deal with numbers. In walking slowly through this briar patch of trials and errors, we’ve stumbled on to Brent Collins who is more than willing to share advice about starting a start-up that’s nearly one-on-one.

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