Articles tagged with 'Web2.0'

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Today, we’re going to take a look at SwitchPlanet.com, a stuff trading service. With their mantra “use more … waste less!”, SwitchPlanet proudly proclaims,

SwitchPlanet is a social media trading website where members can switch their old DVDs, CDs, Games and Books with other members for free.

Social tools such as friends, groups and forums are available to help members communicate between trades.

Members also support various charities via our SwitchFunds program.

SP is a great way to enjoy media/entertainment for the cost of postage.

The Internet never cease to amaze us. Time and time again, we’ve encountered websites and web services beyond your imagination. With the dawn of the Web 2.0 age, social driven media is stronger than ever; with sites like Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, Lastfm, and the like, filling the headlines. Today we take an alternative route to see the negative aspect of social media, which really points to the nature of human itself. Complaints.

Let’s be honest, we complain on a regular basis. There’s just no end to it, people and things always seem to piss us off. Whether it be your day job as a cashier or people in cinemas with their freaking mobile phones on loud mode (You people suck!), complaints are everywhere. We need a place to let it all out, and what better place then the Internet where we can do it anonymously? We bring you 3 websites whose sole purpose is to share complaints.

TheFunded is a site about - you guessed it - getting funding for entrepreneurs. A considerable amount of entrepreneurs are bound to need funds for their business ventures. This is no easy task, what more if you’re just a young startup taking a first step into the unknown world of funding. Fret not, at TheFunded you get first hand experiences and advice from veterans.

The site says:

TheFunded.com is working to be the leading source of funding information for entrepreneurs. Help us to help you by reviewing and commenting on funds.

Noticed something different when we arrived at Flickr for our daily dose of interestingness. The home page has been completely revamped! At first we thought it was our eyes playing tricks, but looking through google’s cache (indexed 12 June) shows that Flickr has indeed gotten a major makeover. Oddly, the revamp was not mentioned at all on their blog which last posted the introduction of 7 new languages to Flickr (French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.)

New home page

Old home page

Flickr now sports a much cleaner interface. Instead of the old layout which catered to 800×600 resolution, it is now limited to a minimum of 1024×768 resolution. The set of rotating images at the homepage has been added to. Gone are the weird quotes that accompanies each image. Options to “Share & stay in touch”, “Upload & organize” and “Make stuff!” are made available besides the ole’ “Explore Flickr” (renamed “Explore…”). Each of the options actually links to the particular section of their tour.

Basically, the information presented is a lot more readable and accessible, compared with the old interface. Nothing else on Flickr seems to change though.

Flickr homepage
Google cache of Flickr

Open Source Salary (OSS) is actually the website’s name. In a nutshell, OSS lists salaries across IT-based occupations and locations. Note that OSS only caters to the IT field. There, you can add your salary or view a list of salaries.

According to the site:

Open Source Salaries introduces simplicity, honesty and the concept of open source into salary information across the globe for us in IT.

In its Google like simplicity, OSS has no registration or advertising hoops to jump through. OSS has been designed to be simple and fast but also in being open, OSS has something unavailable anywhere else—you can download all the salaries to prove your point.

Open Source Salaries aims to make the playing field a lot fairer for everyone.

Adding your salary is pretty painless as it doesn’t require registration. Just fill in the data and you’re done. You can then view the list of salaries in your region. Currently there aren’t many entries from Malaysia.

At this point, there isn’t much to OSS besides adding and viewing. It doesn’t even have list sorting yet. However, we expect the database to grow as the site becomes more well-known.

http://www.opensourcesalary.com

Once in a blue moon, something comes up that you can’t resist trying. We caught wind of such an application. Particls or PARTiCLS (with an italicized i) is a desktop application that churns news alert gathered from all of the Internet. News catered to your interests will be served by a news ticker-ish bar on top of your desktop. This is every news junkie’s dream come true - 24/7 updated news every single second!

The awesomeness of Particls is just too great to keep to ourselves. With some spare time to kill, only a multi segmented review about Particls would do it justice. Here’s PART 1 - The Basics.

We’re back. Problems have been plaguing our servers the past few days, so we didn’t get to post new articles. Meanwhile, our laboratory has been busy reworking our frankenstein creation, the feeds digest and giving it a new bride. Many thanks to those who have pitched in their suggestions which, we’ve taken into consideration when reworking the Zhongg Feeds Digest.

The feed url has been changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech. To those who have subscribed to the earlier feed, the old feed will redirect to the new one, no worries :). We’ve hooked up with feedburner to provide better compatibility and statistics. The rest of the fixes are rather minor, best that y’all give it a go to see them changes.

With the infinite number of websites on the Internet, how do you differentiate your site? What separates the men from the boys is precisely 1.0. While silly Web 1.0 boys are playing with their paintshopped .bmp images on tables, the Web 2.0 men are braving the wwwilderness, armed with bright oversized fonts and unspeakable names.

Does your site have what it takes to be truly Web2.0? Find out now! Zhongg proudly presents 2 tools that will show you just how Web2.0 you really are - www.certifyr.com and web2.0validator.com.

If you are here you probably already know what Joost is, so I’ll just skip to the point. Everyone wants an invite but certain people are taking advantage of the situation and making the rest jump through hoops. Enough of contests, lucky draws, registrations and all that bullshit.

Here are 50 links to decent people who give away their invites with minimum effort from you. All you need to do is just comment on their blog or send an email. Don’t just select the first link listed here, randomly choose one that has lesser comments which will increase your chances of getting an invite. Thank the kind chaps on your way out

A couple of days ago I received a notice from Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren who broke the news - Pandora will no longer be accessible outside US. This is terrible news to me as a fan of their service.

Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who created the music - we have always believed in honoring the guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and performance royalty payments for every song we play.

Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are now able to recognize a listener’s country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. Consequently, on May 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

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