Kickapps

29Jun07

Kickapps has really improved leaps and bounds since it first launched. Much like Ning, you can create a social network with blogs, photo-sharing and videos in a matter of clicks.
I  remember trying the service out a year ago and I couldn’t even register! The application form didn’t accept my country. I wrote to them and [...]

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Twittervision and Twitter

04Jun07

Twittervision is an offspring-cum-mashup of twitter. It allows you to see what everyone in the world is yabbering on about at twitter against a google map.
Although you can’t really do anything on Twittervision except pan and zoom (which is quite painful, really), it’s great fun to watch the world twitter about something or another.  It [...]

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dabbledb.com

21May07

Dabbledb.com is a very interesting application. It’s like plugging in the power of databases into your spreadsheet.
The idea is simply this: Got a spreadsheet? Upload it! Dabbledb.com will transform it into an intelligent database. Dabbledb will make relational databases out of your data. After that, you can easily create look ups, filters, views, etc. Date-based [...]

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Google Analytics

10May07

If you haven’t tried Google Analytics, you should. It really makes you wonder why you should ever pay for tracking tools. Although Google Analytics isn’t a sexy 2.0 application, I felt that I should definitely include it in my list. For the past week, I have been testing it rigorously. For a tool that is [...]

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Cyworld

03May07

Cyworld is Korea’s leading social networking website. While many English social networking sites are struggling with how to make revenue, Cyworld is churning $300,000 a day.
Cyworld is focused. The site is targetted at teens and 20-somethings – people who have time to create networks, homepages and 3-D virtual rooms. Users can buy virtual items to [...]

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