web2.0 - Stormgrass

Extra, extra, read all about it!

As of yesterday, I’m the new (and first) web2.0 columnist for Austrian (German-speaking) online weekly CHiLLi.cc. I’ll do my best to bring all the greatness of webbased service glory to the masses. The column is named “Web und Wir”, meaning not much else than “web and

lastfm

And last.fm just won

The two biggest players in the social music world, Last.FM and Pandora, have been fighting for the love of music lovers worldwide for about two years. While both approaches to the same issue, listening to music online based on the music you already like, were always implemented differently (Pandora

awards

And the award goes to...

You! Apparently. As the year comes to an end, many publications create their lists of best and worst and hippest and lamest and what else you can cram into lists. TIME Magazine is doing the same, as they’ve been doing for a while (I don’t know for how

amarok

Last.fm redesign

Last.fm, a website that lets you upload information about your listening habits, and then helps you find new music and connect with like-tasted people, has just undergone a face-lift. The design comes in two colours, one of them is their tried and tested red and white design, the other

flickr

Zooomr 2.0 coming

Zooomr, once one-man show, photo sharing, Flickr-clone-accused, prototypical web 2.0 service is going to launch its new version tonight. I haven’t tested the service thoroughly yet, but they do offer a load of interesting additions, stuff everyone’s darling Flickr doesn’t. Like geo-tagging, so you’ll always

Books

LibraryThing mobile

Well, since everyone and their Grandma are pushing towards content on mobile phones, it doesn’t exactly come as a surprise that LibraryThing, everybody’s favourite online library and cataloguing service, can now be accessed via mobile phone too. From their blog entry: The idea is simple—you get the

Books

LibraryThing in realtime

Check out this page where you can see the books being added to LibraryThing, greatest online library service on the web (where else, right?), in realtime. As Tim Spalding puts it in his posting LibraryHypnotismThing: I find it hypnotic, both fascinating and will-depleting at the same time. And he’s

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Box.net

Once in a while I like showcasing new webservices I’m infatuated with. If you’ve come for the inane chatter usually prevalent in this spot, just skip this entry. More of that some other time. The service I want to present today has been getting quite a bit of

news

Newsvine

I’ve recently been the happy recipient of an invite for Newsvine, (thanks, Chris J!) a still closed beta venture, which is something I’ll simply have to start a new sentence for to describe. Here it is: Newsvine is not just another website aggregating news and commentary from all