Twitter Alternatives - Plurk Or Pownce
June 6, 2008
It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users.
But what are the alternatives?
There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, but can they replace twitter? Read more
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Yooba - Swedish Meatballs Or Webbased Marketing Tool?
February 28, 2008
From time to time people are kind enough to mail me and ask me to write about their startup or interview someone. I just love to get these mails. It makes me feel important and a bit like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney. Many of the mails are the copy/paste standard “Hey interesting site you have. Let me tell you about this great product we are about to launch…”-mails. Never mind that. Even those mails makes me feel important…
However communicator, Jonas Thoursie from Yooba was kind enough to mention that my site was interesting and that he found my interview series “Show Me Your Desktop“, particular interesting. Because he took the time to look at my site, I’ll take the time and space and write about Yooba. Read more
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Pownce - What Is It All About? Is It Better Than Twitter?
July 26, 2007
Pownce (pounce) - You might have heard or read about it. It’s all over the internet, not as in Joost-all-over-the-internet, but pretty close.
This is what they say about themselves:
Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.
So what’s all the commotion about?
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Special Invitation To The Beta News Readers - Join Searoo Alpha
July 20, 2007
Rhode Island, USA based Swift Blue has asked me to invite The Beta News readers to join the alpha test of their local search engine. I’ve previously written about one of Swift Blue’s project, FamFridge, unfortunately a tragic family issue has set them back.
Searoo Local Search is only for the US at the moment, so you need an American zip code to register. Once you’ve registered you can review restaurants and see the reviews for the restaurants in your neighbourhood. There is also a Q&A section, where the users can connect and ask for restaurant, hotel and other recommendations.
Searoo is still in alpha test, so you should prepare for a few dead links and missing options.
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FIFA 2008 News Is Launched - It’s Time To Start Experimenting
July 19, 2007
Three weeks ago I launched my second site - FIFA 2008 News. It has the latest news about EA Sports’ coming FIFA Soccer 2008 featuring interviews, screen shots, trailers and demos and press releases directly from EA Sports’ Press Room.
It all started out with an article I wrote for Connected Internet, which quickly became and is one of the most read on the site. Everton Blair suggested that I started a site up with FIFA 2008 news, I’ve done that and I’m proud to say that traffic is growing each day.
This is my first attempt at a “real” niche blog. I’ll try a few experiments on it.
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Pownce - The Way To Send Stuff
July 13, 2007
I recently joined Pownce. If you haven’t heard about them here is a quick quote from their site:
Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.
I’ve got six invites for my friends. So who wants to be my friend?
You can read a bit more about Pownce on their blog or on Pownce.com
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7 New Online Dating Start-Ups
June 13, 2007
Did you ever use one of the online dating services? There are plenty of sites on the web offering you personals ranging from adult dating to christian dating from black dating to gay dating.
I’ve collected a bunch of the newest and most innovative dating sites. All of them are start-ups. A few of them requires a fee, but most are free online dating sites.
- Online Speed Dating - You will be matched up in a 15 Minute Blind Date (Speed Dating) session where you can meet your blind date face-to-face via webcam.
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Desktop Tower Defense Creates Gaming Site
June 10, 2007
Did you read my post on Connected Internet about the Top 6 addictive and free online games?
If not you should head over there and try a few of them out. Number one on the list, Desktop Tower Defense’s designer has teamed up with the designer of FlashElementTD. They’ve quit their day job and started their own business, Novel Concepts. They still haven’t found a name for the gaming site yet, but they are working on it. One thing is sure though, they will focus on free online games.
Dave Scott says: “Our goal is to create an awesome casual gaming site with a social networking twist which we will use to host all our future games as well as some we have made already.”
Paul Preece is currently working on the latest version of the free online game Desktop Tower Defense (DTD) 1.5, which will feature the “Ink/Blob Tower” and “Boost Tower”.
You can read more about on Paul and Dave’s blog, Novel Concepts.
Best of luck to Novel Concepts, I am really looking forward to seeing more from them.
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AGLOCO - Make Money While You Surf
June 5, 2007
Did you install the AGLOCO Viewbar? Or perhaps you don’t know what AGLOCO is?
Let me give you a brief explanation: “AGLOCO is an Economic Network. An Economic Network is based on similar roots, but also adds the driving principle that individuals who have joined together as a group can be economically stronger than the individuals alone.” Now doesn’t that sound peachy.
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T-shirts That Text Back
June 4, 2007
You can now combine activism, fashion and SMS/text through Reactee’s latest innovation.
It is quite easy. You design your own T-shirt with your desired message like:” Got plans Saturday nite?”, “Stop Global Warming” or “Møjn, It’s Petersen Inc” (Ok, I made the last one up). Combined with a unique keyword like, “DATE”, “HOT” or “Pinc”, you text the keyword to 41411 and get a personalised message back from the owner of the T-shirt. This way a DJ can promote his playlist, you can get info on how to stop global warming or I can promote my site.
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