Archive for the 'web2.0' Category

GMail accounts

« 18 June 2004 | 1:28 | Internet, geekery, google, web2.0 | 17 Comments »

Seems the free GMail invites never stop increasing; a couple more were added to my handful, and rumour has it Google is about to go “live” (i.e. non-beta) soon, so if you want to beat the rush and still don’t have one, send me a haiku as to why I should give you one.
mromaine@gmail.com (bring [...]

POP Goes the GMail

« 16 June 2004 | 12:08 | Internet, geekery, google, web2.0 | 1 Comment »

POP Goes The GMail – a POP interfacing client for GMail accounts. Not sure if it’s really that useful, but…Thanks to Strategize, which is another great blog.

Bushmockery

« 15 April 2004 | 1:37 | America, Internet, humour, politics, web2.0 | No Comments »

Two amusing sites for testing your creativity, courtesy of mefi:
Make your own Bush speech
Make your own Bush comic

Mash Ups

« 16 March 2004 | 11:06 | diary, media, music, web2.0 | No Comments »

Jason Zada introduced me to Mash Ups — basically layering multiple songs to create another. Very cool stuff; amusing at times to hear how such disparate genres go together well. Here are a few favorites after a bit of surfing:
Missy Eliot and Propellerheads*
Eminem and Lenny Kravitz*
Nelly Furtado and Luniz
Steppenwolf vs. Apollo440 vs. Madonna [...]

Weekly DV

« 2 February 2004 | 11:30 | Internet, media, scitech, web2.0 | No Comments »

This week’s WeeklyDV is amazing. 14 fantastic shorts. If you’ve got broadband (and who doesn’t these days?) do yourself a favor and check them out. Watch Jason’s Loneliness to set you in the mood for the rest of ‘em.

Bleep

« 15 January 2004 | 8:46 | Internet, music, scitech, web2.0 | No Comments »

Warp Records has a cool three-column interface to their new online music store. Songs are a bit pricey — $1.35 — but the listening-preview progress meter kicks ass! Select an album, a song to ‘play’, and watch the tune buffer. Now click somewhere on the tiny waveform. Awesome.

A Friendster In Need…

« 24 September 2003 | 10:07 | America, Internet, geekery, web2.0 | No Comments »

Unbelievable hype being generated around Friendster, Google, and KPCB.
Read on here (a second article follows).

今何時? What time is it?

« 4 September 2003 | 13:40 | Internet, geekery, web2.0 | No Comments »

Thanks Jim for this cool link.