Blog Title: GizBuzz

Moving on

You might have read today already about the launch of blognation, a new blog network created by Sam Sethi to cover the Web 2.0 ecosystems in different countries around the world with country specific blogs. To cut a long story short, I am going to be leaving GizBuzz and Oratos to become a UK editor read more..

Zooomr - where do we go from here?

The new launch of Zooomr has been a shambles, with about two weeks of downtime, and the final product isn’t even that interesting. As I write this it is down yet again, and the latest version is far too buggy to have been released and adds little in the way of innovation, with most of read more..

Social media is ‘killing our culture’?

There’s a post on the Newsnight blog about a book called The Cult of the Amateur by David Keen arguing that the media revolution (which he refers to as Web 2.0 - I don’t think that’s a correct application of what is a fairly meaningless term anyway) has significantly harmed our culture and society; blogs read more..

Episode 8: Chris Saad from Particls

For this episode, I interviewed Chris Saad of Particls, an attention management application of which I am a great fan. They’re coming out of a private beta today, and are also announcing a revenue sharing version of Particls for online publishers. You can download it here. The official description of Particls here, but essentially it is read more..

Google to launch UK phone network

Vecosys has confirmed TechCrunch’s rumour that Google will partner with O2 to launch a UK phone network. The partnership with O2 is not unlike Virgin Mobile’s with T-Mobile. Known as Virtual Mobile Network Operators, Virgin Mobile piggy backs on T-Mobile’s network infrastructure which means they don’t have to make that massive outlay. I found myself read more..

Technorati redesign

Technorati, the incumbent blog search engine, has launched a new design today, as well as a number of features which reflect a change of emphasis. The redesign itself is very nice; it’s more minimalist than any recent effort, and gives big emphasis to discovery of content, with a frankly enormous tag cloud and a selection of read more..

A community launch: Zooomr Mark III

Flickr-alternative Zooomr is launching a major new version over the course of today, and is doing a number of interesting things with social media to promote the launch and engage users. Quite a few of the Oratos team use Zooomr because of the price advantage over Flickr (it’s completely free without limits), so I expect read more..

What needs to happen for widespread OpenID adoption

Peter takes a look at some things the OpenID community need to do to push the technology into the mainstream.

Stalking made easy

There’s been some interesting things happening in personal publishing happening recently - Twitter has become incredibly popular, and that has probably been the catalyst to a new phenomenon known as lifestreams. As far as I can tell, these were invented by British web developer Jeremy Keith, who described them thus: Just about every time somebody publishes read more..

Joost launches - the future of TV or a fad?

Today restrictions were limited on the number of invitations which could be sent by a Joost user, effectively making it open to everyone (so long as they can find someone who already has it). Formerly The Venice Project, Joost is an on-demand IPTV (television over the internet) startup from the founders of Skype, and it has read more..