For many people, myself included, logging into the Twitter website on a regular basis can be quite boring and frustrating. Far better to have your Twitter feed on your desktop like an instant message (IM) tool so you can see the latest tweets as they come in and still get on with your work when...

In the early days of the search engine, there were dozens of competitors. Anybody remember Alta Vista, Lycos, GoTo or Hotbot? But over time, Google and to a lesser degree Yahoo, started to gain in popularity and the other search engines either got bought up or went bust. Web 2.0 sites are still...

For the initiated, Stumble Upon is a service which displays millions of different user-submitted webpages. Users sign up for an account and then download the toolbar which will then display in their browser. Whenever they find a web page they like, they can click the “like” button....

If you define life streaming as a way to constantly communicate your activies using the internet then we need to start thinking more boradly than simply blogging (in all it’s various forms). One possible consideration could be loosely-termed “geostreaming” - the ability with...

Life streaming is such a new and exciting phenomenon it can be tempting to just jump straight in and start streaming. But I think this may be a mistake. Before you set up your various profiles and get started, I think it’s important to consider who your target audience is and what you are...

FriendFeed is one of the newer micro-blogging, social networking sites that is focused on sharing the things you like with the people you like. In most cases, it is used as a way to share videos or music, but it also used to share websites among friends. The goal of FriendFeed is for people...

Blogging, a term derived from the word “blog”, which is a contraction of “web log”, has been in existence since the mid-1990s, but only now is it a popular form of media. This type of online diary or soap box is used by everyday people to vent, to tell others about their lives, or to...

If you think of social networking services and micro-blogging, no doubt Twitter comes to mind. It is the leader in this area, but it is not without competition. In fact, the competition is moving ahead of Twitter at a frightening pace. Twitter serves a purpose and serves it well. You can deliver...

Having recently given a talk on the demise of the dot.com era and the current economic situation, a question arose: “Can a company with no product, no money, and no purpose survive the recession?” In this case, the person was asking about Twitter, but the same question was asked about many...

If you don’t know what life streaming is, you haven’t been paying much attention to the web in the past year or so. More than just putting up a MySpace or Facebook page, life streaming is a means of telling the world virtually every movement you make on a day-to-day basis. If this sounds...