Awakened Voice

A new Podcast community/directory launched recently and it looks pretty darn good. Blubrry is more community than Podcast directory. The site includes social network style features like a friends list, tags and commenting.
Podcasters do not merely list their show on Blubrry. They enter into a non-exclusive agreement that allows Blubrry to negotiate ad sales and [...]

Steve Rubel informs us that AIM Pages has launched their Beta. Is there a difference between a launch and a Beta these days? That’s a discussion for another post.
I’ve heard people say that this is AOL’s attempt to “kill” MySpace. Fat chance on that. MySpace is a Social Media juggernaught and they have too much [...]

My pals far east and west of here on The Hobson and Holtz report pointed out that General Motors has launched a new blog called the FYI Blog.
According to the FYI blog website, ” The FYI Blog is about GM news and opinion, by GM employees and others. We look forward to hearing your ideas.”
What [...]

Just got word of a new super theme for WordPress that aims to make creating and customizing your blog a whole lot easier.
The theme is called Canvas and it was recently announced by some folks who call themselves Fresh Pursuits. According to a blog post on No Ones Listening, Canvas is “a novel and remarkably [...]

I could have hoodwinked everyone with some phony announcement about Awakened Voice being acquired by Google or something like that. But then again, who would buy that one?
In any case, there are other social media jokers on the case. Matt Mullenweg of WordPress has announced a merger with TextPattern. The result is a Content Management [...]

A community Wiki site has relaunched and announced a round of venture capital funding. As reported on TechCrunch, Wikicities has relaunched as Wikia.
Wikia is a collection of Wiki based web communities that anyone can contribute to. If you don’t find a community to suit your needs there then you can start your own.
The funding is [...]

A new web based word processing app has been released for public beta. ajaxWrite is an online word processor comparable to Microsoft Word. The app promises to allow users to open all popular document formats and save them to their local computer in PDF, .DOC, or .TXT formats. And because ajaxWrite is web based, the [...]

Google Finance has launched. One very interesting feature in the view for a particular company’s stock is the listing of related blog posts. Check out the page for Dell Computer for an example.
This view provides a more complete dashboard than other finance sites because you not only see the facts, but you get a chance [...]

According to TechCrunch, a new music collaboration called eJamming has launched. The goal of the service is to connect musicians from all over the world so they can collaborate on projects.
The concept makes a lot of sense to me. I’m always hearing from my musician friends who are looking for a bass player, a drummer, [...]

Fold is a new, Firefox friendly start page app that calls itself “the Web 2.0 application.” The application allows you to place data in “containers” that you can drag around the page. RSS containers are supported along with HTML, Flash and others. You can access the public beta here.
Tags: Web 2.0, Firefox