Rumors have started about plans by Google to launch a virtual world to rival Second Life and Habbo. The new 3D social network, apparently called “My World”, will make use of the Google Earth and Google Maps applications and is penciled in for launch later this year.
The speculation started after a survey was circulated to [...]

PodCamp, the international new media community Unconference, is making its way down to Australia in October 2007 and will be hosted in the sunny city of Perth. rene-lemerle.gooruze.com
I’m lucky enough to be a part of the organizing team for the inaugural PodCamp Perth, which will take place on the 27-28 October 2007 at Central [...]

Leveraging the social web phenomenon is “front of mind” for most modern marketers, and a new start-up called digFoot aims to help us to identify which ones to target. digFoot is a directory (not very web 2.0 sounding) of social networks on the web.
Admittedly, trying to find which social networks fit a niche, or tap [...]

This is a bit techy, but a really important development in the pipeline. The team at Intel, and other leading technology companies, are working on a new version of the Universal Serial Bus technology that will see it able to transfer data 10 times faster than the current USB 2.0 version.
The USB 3.0 initiative [...]

At the recent TechCrunch 40 conference, a new web browser that harnesses the power of the social web was given the spotlight. Flock is a browser that looks to redefine the process of navigating the internet by integrating various web 2.0 applications such as photo sharing, social networks and blogs directly into the application. rene-lemerle.gooruze.com
Flock [...]

Brainstorming with colleagues and peers can be difficult to co-ordinate at the best of times with conflicting schedules and geographic hurdles. Scribelink, a super simple, yet effective online whiteboard tool, makes brainstorming, idea sharing and collaborative mind mapping easy.
Scriblink does away with many of the bells and whistles to offer an easy to use and [...]

You’ll be forgiven for thinking that Google Apps and Microsoft/Windows Live Office are the driving force behind the Office 2.0 revolution given the volume of buzz about the tools they’ve released or repackaged. But its offerings like Zoho Business Suite that are helping to set the pace.
Zoho has been quietly (relatively) developing an extensive range [...]

First things first - i am a huge fan of Adobe Flash - it’s been the only universal basis for a rich web experience for years. But i’m all for some healthy competition to drive things forward and welcome the official launch of Microsoft Silverlight.
Microsoft Silverlight, for those not familar with the new development environment, [...]

Keeping track of your networks is difficult at the best of times…especially with so many of them. The friendly folks down at Touchgraph have developed some nifty visualization apps that can help you better understand the data relationships - be they websites, social network friends, products - the uses are endless.
Aimed at the data analysts [...]

Microsoft has launched Tafiti Beta - a service which could give us an insight into Microsoft’s vision for search. Tafiti makes use of the new Microsoft Silverlight development platform and is powered with Live Search (the new MSN search service).
Tafiti is an aesthetically pleasing and interactive search service that gives users the power to handle [...]