December 30, 2005
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without
There have been numerous 2005 “best of” and 2006 “predictions” posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I’m not going to write one of those. Giving out “best of” awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I’ve been blogging all of six months.... [MORE]
December 09, 2005
Boltfolio media sharing
My alma mater* Bolt.com just launched Boltfolio, web-based media storage and sharing. Clearly influenced by Flickr (and who hasn't been), the neat thing about Boltfolio is that all your media types - photos, videos, audio and blog entries - are stored in one place. Surf everyone's media by tag... [MORE]
November 23, 2005
Choosing ladies or chips
Filed under: OutdoorThere's an old saying, "I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers" which is usually spoken by men who would never have said lady in their bed in the first place. Adrants points to this street ad, found on Flickr, which asks kind of the... [MORE]
November 21, 2005
Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist)
There are companies I review every day that I don’t write about. Reasons vary - it’s been done already and the product isn’t even as good as what’s been done, its a highly or totally one-way application, or it isn’t consumer focused (or have implications for consumer focused applications).... [MORE]
November 18, 2005
Yahoo, Google Are Competing With VCs As Start-Up Funders
: Google and Yahoo aren't just acquiring or, in many cases, acq-hiring small companies; they're also funding start-ups in competition with VCs. (Amazon has been doing this for a while; it's the sole investor in The Robot Co-op, parent of 43 Things.) John Battelle reports from London, where he... [MORE]
November 17, 2005
These ads will make you party like it's 1982
Filed under: Flickr Fiend, Online, PrintAh, the Atari 2600. It brings back some fond memories for me. The first time playing Space Invaders at home, the feeling of having such a sophisticated gaming system of my own, getting seriously drunk with a friend and playing Yar's Revenge until 1am.... [MORE]
November 15, 2005
Flickrization Of Yahoo Well Underway
Business 2.0: “I look at Flickr with envy,” Jerry Yang, co-founder and chief of Yahoo says. “It feels like where the Web is going.” What Yang envies is the community of 1.5 million rabidly loyal users Flickr has cultivated and the vast amount of content they’ve created. Of the... [MORE]
November 09, 2005
Katamari sushi
Cory Doctorow: Mileena sends us this "picture of a lovely Katamari prince made of sushi. The artist's other sushi work on Flickr is very neat too." I agree! Link (Thanks, Mileena!)... [MORE]
November 08, 2005
FlickrFS
Linux virtual filesystem that ties to Flickr for grabbing and posting photos [via] ... [MORE]
November 06, 2005
The Flickr(s) of Video
I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video. I’ve taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well known is YouTube, which we profiled in August and which recently raised venture money from Sequoia. But there are... [MORE]
