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posted by psmealey
on Nov 30, 2007 -
14 comments
Glassbooth connects you to the presidential candidate that represents your beliefs the best. Too busy/lazy/etc. to research the candidates on your own? Let web 2.0 tell you who to vote for.
posted by allkindsoftime
on Nov 2, 2007 -
83 comments
Abuse of creative commons. So Virgin has followed in the footsteps of
Viacom by stealing
a photo from a Creative Commons directory, and using it without proper attribution. Unfortunately the victim is suing Creative Commons instead of Virgin, claiming the license was deceptive.
posted by gandledorf
on Sep 27, 2007 -
76 comments
If you enjoyed
Supermarket 2.0, you'll love
brgr, aka
Burger 2.0! Yes, it's your basic "if your hamburger were like a website/web celebrity/software product/tech company/buzzword" schtick, but
some of them are funny. My faves [inside].
posted by wendell
on Aug 26, 2007 -
14 comments
Foreclosure Radar. This is the fastest growth market in real estate, and we can help you capitalize on it. We go far beyond simple foreclosure listings: we track every single foreclosure auction in the state, every day.
posted by chunking express
on Aug 14, 2007 -
32 comments
12 of the Best Music Social Networks Internet radio may be facing
uncertain times, but many musical social networks continue to thrive. This article surveys
Flotones,
Mercora Radio 2.0,
Mog, the popular
Last fm,
iLike,
JamNow,
Haystack, five others as well as some additional sites, like
Kompoz, mentioned in the comments.
posted by psmealey
on Jun 23, 2007 -
17 comments
Instead of yet another social networking site, why not try an
anti-social networking site? Presenting
Spatula of Death, where the goal is enmity, not community. Smite your
friends enemies or watch other people smite theirs, and you'll get to watch a poor stuffed monkey get whapped on the head with a spatula over a live web feed. Rate other users' smites, and have your own smites rated, earning Douchebag Points (TM) for the most cutting remarks and cruel behavior. The site was created as a thesis presentation for Tisch ITP at NYU;
watch the creator discuss it.
posted by Asparagirl
on May 3, 2007 -
14 comments
Create political cartoons for your own enjoyment or to share with others. Quickcomic allows you to easily create, rate, and post your own insane scenarios using the characters of US and world politics. Hours of blog fodder await!
posted by PreteFunkEra
on Apr 7, 2007 -
18 comments
Virtual Tourism: A mashup of YouTube travel videos of individual sites, their aerial location via Google Maps and text from Wikipedia. It's Web 2.0-licious!
posted by Ogre Lawless
on Apr 3, 2007 -
4 comments
Useless Account is the newest, hippest web 2.0 site, with gradient blends, large text, and bright colors. And right now, they're offering
free accounts with
unlimited account editing. Sign up quick before your username is taken!
posted by scottreynen
on Feb 6, 2007 -
29 comments
Web 2.0 (2nd draft) A short film by Kansas State Cultural Anthropology Professor Mike Welsh. Find out what happens when content and structure finally break-up and structure gets a place of its own.
posted by Toekneesan
on Feb 4, 2007 -
37 comments
Bubbleprice.com is the handy guide for Internet startup entrepreneurs to use to calculate their next investment round. If you've recently raised money for your startup, how do you plan to use it? If you're working for a startup, better hope
Matt Marshall doesn't tag you with the dreaded
bubble tag.
posted by gen
on Jan 7, 2007 -
7 comments
Broken Embargoes. Given the long amount of preparation required to print an automotive "buff book" (US examples include
Car&Driver,
Road&Track,
Automobile, and
MotorTrend), automobile manufacturers customarily provide them with access to concepts and new production vehicles months prior to the "official" public unveiling, requiring them to
abide by an embargo on the images and data until a certain date has passed, usually to accomodate a carshow or other media event. In these cases, it was to coincide with the
North American International Autoshow (NAIAS, aka Detroit Autoshow, 1/13-1/21), with the embargo lifted with either 1/7/2007 online publication or February print issues, which the buff books dropped the last week of a December. As soons as that happened, web outlets like
blogs and
various forums released their embargoed materials for each model. As a result, many manufacturers have had their marketing plans torn assunder (list and more background inside)...
posted by rzklkng
on Jan 4, 2007 -
12 comments
Take a cyber tour of the
Nong Shim factory! Yay!
Warning: Portions may require ActiveX control. Includes sound, especially music, voice, and a chime every few seconds. Discontinue use if you experience any of the following: overstimulation, understimulation, rage, anguish, nausea, seizure, uncontrollable craving for shrimp crackers, or an erection lasting more than four hours.
posted by thirteenkiller
on Dec 11, 2006 -
11 comments
Zap Reader. Browser-based reader that takes selected text and flashes them one (or two, or three) at a time on the screen for super-fast speed reading. Scroll down for the tutorial video. Convenient or headache-inducing? You be the judge.
posted by zardoz
on Aug 17, 2006 -
23 comments
Vox is the newest project by blog magnate
Six Apart. It's currently in test mode and not yet open to the public, but a select group of people has been trying it our for the past few weeks, including
MeFi's own #1.
Vox looks like it wants to combine blogging and social networking, and
aims to be compatible with different online services.
posted by easternblot
on Aug 4, 2006 -
76 comments
The internet has been hailed as a great media equalizer; no longer do you have to have the huge budgets & backing of major news outlets, record companies, movie studios, etc.. One attempt to formalize that process,
IMince seems to be a bit of a YouTube/Project Greenlight combination, where users
submit their funniest/most compelling (five minute max) digital video in the hopes of being discovered. I assume the site will be community content driven & user voting (digg like?) to separate the good from the bad, but until they start getting/posting content, it's hard to tell.
posted by jonson
on Jul 27, 2006 -
11 comments
