2005

Gawker continues to drive its busines forward amidst rumors of an acquisition in the works with the New York Times. In addition to their recent deal to promote their content…

eskobo is the most recent entrant into the crazy-crowded Ajax desktop space. Eskobo has (now) standard drag and drop modules. Everything is customizable except the adertising, which can be moved,…

Lee Gomes wrote about Memeorandum, Blogniscient and TechCrunch in the Wall Street Journal today. It’s an interesting column discussing the rise of blogs as “journalists” and the usefullness of blog…

Consumating, a dating site with tagging that I profiled in August, has been acquired by CNet. Congratulations to both founders. I didn’t know that Adaptive Path had helped design Consumating…

As I continue my journey to find the flickr of videos, I may have found the (near) perfect product – version 2 of Grouper which launches tonight. Grouper is only…

Glide Effortless is a service that will help you upload and share just about any type of file – photos, MP3 files, video clips and even Word, PowerPoint or PDF…

I received scored of emails on “Comparing The Flickrs of Video” post last month from passionate users of various products as well as a number of stealth companies preparing for…

Protopage launched version 2.0 of its Ajax desktop today. I previously profiled Protopage in August. There are a number of new and interesting features, which are described in the Protopage…

Inform.com, a recently launched news aggregator, is re-launching on Monday with a number of feature additions and enhancements. I am calling this a “re-launch” because the changes are significant and…

Attensa will announce its second round of financing today (Monday). The round is being financed by RSS Investors, the venture capital fund announced in June 2005 by Jim Moore, John…

PodDater, which launched on November 16, is a video dating site with tagging that focuses on allowing members to download videos of people they are interested in to their iPod.…

Erick Schonfeld at the Business 2.0 blog found a company that is tackling one of the opportunities I mentioned in an earlier post – providing transcriptions of recordings to podcasters…

I begged for this in a post last week about companies I’d like to profile that don’t exist yet (no. 1 – “better and cheaper online storage”). MP3Tunes nailed it…

Brandon Schauer’s post and associated PDF historical timeline is an excellent resource to put web 2.0 companies into perspective and to understand their place in the overall ecosystem. I’ll be…

Jookster‘s search engine launched yesterday. Like Wink, Jookster is aiming to provide more relevant search results by putting user-generated bookmarked links above normal results. Unlike Wink, which allows users to…

As predicted, Skype v2.0 with video functionality has launched before the holidays. Skype Video is available only for Windows users currently (and the compression technology they are using is windows…

There’s a ton of podcasting news coming out. I’ll profile a couple of other companies tomorrow but I thought it was worth mentioning that BackBeat Media launched a podcast network…

Gtalkr, a flash-based website to access Google’s Gtalk, launched yesterday. It allows you to access your Gtalk instant messaging account without a client, from any computer. Comparisons will inevitably be…

Chris Pirillo’s Gaba.be continues to roll out new features weekly. They’ve also made a change to the URL structure for tag queries to become better indexed by search engines. This…

Yahoo gathered a small group of bloggers, press and others at Sauce in San Francisco tonight to announce the launch of two new RSS products. They have integrated an RSS…

Songbird replaced its landing page with a blog and is giving more information on the product (I had next to no details for my original Songbird post earlier this month).…

Microsoft will be beta launching a new web 2.0 service under the Live.com brand in the next few weeks. The final name is TDB, but the current project name is…

Zipingo joins the ranks of local business review and ranking services such as Yelp, Judy’s Book (which just raised $8 million from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners)…

23 is a lot like flickr. Almost a clone, even down to the UI and feature comparisons. The service is free, for up to 15 MB of uploading a month.…

I’m intruiged by Seth Goldstein’s Root.net, the first commercial application of the Attention Trust platform (see my Attention Trust posts here and here). Seth wrote a lengthy and descriptive post…

Joyce Park’s Renkoo looks interesting. The Renkoo blog give a number of interesting feature hints. It looks to be an event/calendaring application, but it seems to include chat and other…

CollectiveX, a new venture backed by serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Clarence Wooten, has put up a landing page and is taking requests for people interested in taking part in…

Domains.Live.com is a free new email service offered by Microsoft. It’s a simple but very useful tool. And, like Office Live, it is disruptive to the existing domain name registrar…

Silicon Beat had an interesting article about Palo Alto based Dipsie dCloak yesterday (press release), a product designed to help websites make their content more indexable by search engines. Much,…

NumSum isn’t new, but I hadn’t really played with it until today (it’s actually nice that things are slowing down for Thanksgiving, giving me time to check out stuff I’ve…