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Uncovering The Web2.0Effect.org Hoax: How Virante Marketing Solutions & Burton Hosting Fooled the Web

Mint Review: Managing Your Money with Web 2.0

Digsby Opens Up with Public Beta, Adds Twitter & Voice/Video Support

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03.20.08

Digsby Opens Up with Public Beta, Adds Twitter & Voice/Video Support Internet, Social Networking, Software, Web 2.0 | (0)
I've already gushed about Digsby as a potential killer for Trillian's perpetually delayed Astra release, and now it's open for everyone to try in public beta. Since I've initially written about the IM/email/social network aggregator they've updated constantly mostly taking care of connection issues and other bug fixes. You can see their progress over at the Digsby blog. This latest release for public beta adds Twitter support, something which I'm going to take serious advantage of, support for video/voice chat, and an inline spell checker. You can find the rest of the updates for this release here. Since I've started using Digsby ...
09.18.07

Mint Review: Managing Your Money with Web 2.0 Reviews, Web 2.0 | (0)
As of today Mint.com, the much-hyped Web 2.0 personal finance site, is open to the public. This also means that their NDA has expired, so I'll finally be able to share what I've learned about the service while beta testing it these past few weeks. Please note that the screenshots on this page were grabbed from Mint's feature page. They mentioned that they would make screenshots available to bloggers and press, but I have yet to see any pop up on their press resource page. Unfortunately I couldn't take any screenshots of my own because every page is chock full of ...
07.06.07

Uncovering The Web2.0Effect.org Hoax: How Virante Marketing Solutions & Burton Hosting Fooled the Web Internet, Marketing, Web 2.0 | (30)
You might remember this site from the waves it made a few weeks ago at social news sites. It was a seemingly useful experiment meant to compare the uptime of several inexpensive hosting providers when faced with a flood of traffic. Dubbed the "Web 2.0 Effect: Which Host Will Survive?", a term they invented to group the sort of traffic rush you get from being featured on sites like Slashdot and Digg, the experiment looked to be a useful reference for anyone getting started with paid website hosting. The experiment relied on being flooded with traffic, and that they were ...