YouTube? …no, actually a Tube created by you. StartYourTube

This comes by way of a great feed I’m subscribed to: TechCrunch.
StartYourTube is a new site that allows you to start your own “tube” or video site. It allows you to  have a full powered video site on your own domain. You are also entitled to 60% of the ad revenue.
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Twitter - At a Glance

I’m taking a look today at Twitter, a popular online service similar to the “status box” implemented by Facebook. Twitter gives users the opportunity to post small updates on their life via a personal RSS feed.
Here’s the basics. Once you’ve signed up for a twitter account you’ve got your own personal little twitter [...]

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Piclens - Picture slideshow in 3D

I’m writing this post because, frankly, I’m a sucker for technology and I needed to share this brilliant tool for viewing photos online.
PicLens is what’s know as an “Immersive slideshow”. It allows you to experience photos in a very multi-dimensional way.
It is a web browser plugin that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images. The [...]

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friendfeed: social glue filling the cracks of your web life.

Fragmented online life? This may help. friendfeed is the biggest of a new type of internet service, the social aggregator.
The problem friendfeed solves is: people have multiple sites, services and blogs and they need one place where this stream of content can be consolidated. If RSS feeds take all the new content from your fav [...]

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PageOnce - your internet, your way.

Pageonce defines itself as the first “personal internet assistant.” Everytime people go to their computers, they generally start out by checking a myriad of different sites. (The weather, stock prices, facebook, checking accounts, and the most recent political news, for example). Pageonce tries to simplify this process by allowing the user to see all those [...]

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RSS: What is it?… and why use it?

RSS is a way to get the vast amount of info on the internet to come to you.
This is a great intro to RSS… (3:43)

After getting a good reader like Google Reader or Bloglines subscribe to some feeds. Every so often visit your reader to see what new content has come your [...]

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Jott - Email a Phone Call?

Jott might be the next big thing in note taking. Pick up your phone, call a number, say something, and minutes later you are sent an email saying what you just said. This is a great service if you happen to have a great idea, but can’t get to a piece of paper.
www.jott.com [...]

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That’s My Mouse!

This is an incredibly neat little widget I stumbled across today. It's only been live for about a month now so I figured it was worth a little write-up.
"ThatsMyMouse" is a tool that allows users on your site to see not just their own cursors, but the location of anyone else's cursor who happens to [...]

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Next Generation Newspaper

It slips my mind who it was, but someone in class had a great idea of an online newspaper or "e-zine"
I stumbledupon this and the concept seems similar similar or at least would help augment the idea proposed in class. The gist is that you create a personal newspaper from your RSS and Atom [...]

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The Web in the Next Years: What’s Ahead.

It’s fun to try and envision the future. Who could have imagined the capabilities of the internet just 10 years ago! Lets see if we can make some predictions about the near future of the web. This post will give a good overview of the direction of the web. Comment and give me your predictions!
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