Technorati goes pop, Techmeme (& co) goes mobile

Technorati recently went meta by adding a ‘Popular’ section, which is aggregating the most prominently blogged proponents in the categories Music, Internet Video, Movies and News. interestingly, their categorization seems to be based on links to authorative platforms like amazon.com, imdb.com and youtube.com. not really sure, but I guess this could mean that f.e. music-related [...]

remember-the-milk vs. Google Calendar

at first glance remember the milk is just another web2.0-ish to-do manager (other popular options include Basecamp’s Ta-da Lists and Voo2do). though it features a clean interface, options for publishing and sharing to-do lists as well as a Google Maps-mashup, what really makes it interesting to me is the integration with Google Calendar that was [...]

Opera Mini 3.0 released

norwegian-based Opera Software has released version 3.0 of their free, java-based mobile browser Opera Mini. while preceding versions already outperformed most phones’ preinstalled browser-applications by using server-side compression-proxies and optimizing html not intended for mobile rendering, version 3.0 goes even further with several new features:

content-folding collapses overly long item-lists, which makes scrolling through long [...]

8 video-sharing sites compared

Life Goggles has published a comparison of eigth popular video-sharing sites, including YouTube, Google Video, metacafe, soapbox, Revver (as far as I know the only one sharing revenue with content-producers), Blip.tv and others (click for part one & two of the review, or jump to the sample-clips for comfortable vice-versa quality comparison). while all sites [...]

iTube: download YouTube-clips straight to your iPod

seeking fresh content for your video-enabled iPod? look no further! iTube (Windows only) is a dead simple tool allowing to download any clip from YouTube straight to your player. just enter the URL of the chosen video, and iTube will download the movie, convert it to mp4 (or mpeg, for other players) and update your [...]

how-to bypass Zune’s DRMed WiFi

in what can be described as a precautious concession to the music industry, Microsoft decided to cripple the most interesting feature that might have put their recently released Zune media-player atop of Apples predominant iPod series: the ability to share tracks with other Zune-users over WiFi is restricted to DRMed songs purchased/rented from zune.net. transmitted [...]

how-to game Alexa…

sure, it’s common sense that Alexa’s traffic-stats have to be taken with a big grain of salt (the under-representation of traffic from non IE-browsers is only one major reason). but today Jason Calacanis goes a step further by claiming Alexa can be gamed (=manipulated) with no more than three clients running their toolbar & keeping [...]

FeedShake: mash-up your RSS

FeedShake is a lightweight tool allowing feed-junkies to merge an arbitrary number of RSS- and atom-sources into a single target-feed. word-filters allow further refinement of resulting feed-items, which could be easily used to create vertical meta-feeds similar to earFeeder. on the downside, FeedShake does neither cache feeds nor straighten out invalid XML in source-feeds.

flickr triple-update

few days ago, flickr announced three major improvements on their official blog. while the Camera Finder (a very smart way of utilizing metadata generated by millions of users, paving flickr’s way becoming a vertical shopping-authority for cameras) got all the coverage a company could hope for, I’m more excited about the other two features:

‘Guest Pass’ [...]

blog-search to be added to google.com?

superficial observation might suggest that blog-search & -indexing is a problem solved long time ago – after all we have specialised blog search-engines like Technorati, sphere and Icerocket. however, Technorati – blog-search pioneer and defacto market-leader – is afflicted by repeated technical problems (like randomly “forgetting” to index blogs for weeks – just google for [...]