Archive for April, 2007

SwitchPlanet.com is a new entrant into the busy “trade your stuff that your done with” market dominated by Peerflix, Zunafish, and Craigslist. SwitchPlanet taps the Amazon Ecommerce webservice for product information, and allows for the trading of DVD’s, games, CD’s, and books.
SwitchPlanet.com, a Fresno based internet trading platform aims not only to succeed in business,… »

Good grief - eBay is actually doing something useful. Today, as covered by TechCrunch (I copied their widget, btw), eBay has released embeddable flash widgets. Anyone can widget any auction, and any widget you see can be easily cloned for embedding in your own site (as I did with the one on TC, it was… »

Roger Cadenhead draws our attention to the sale of rss-to-email service R-Mail, to - oddly enough - NBC. R-Mail.org is a wicked simple site with a “subscribe via email” widget for blogs, a very simple UI, a top feeds list (which shows an international user base), and so on.
According to Rogers…
The service has 50,000 users,… »

Mark Evans, Canadian B5 blogger, writes a good post on quality of communications in our hyper-connected present. I won’t re-iterate the whole thing, but in quick summary his position is that physical meetings and phone calls hold value above and beyond the email paradigm that many have come to accept as the default form of… »

The blogosphere is predictably abuzz about VuDu - darkhorse set top instant movie purchase box. NYT dropped the story first, Giz had first UI and hardware pics, and Engadget’s got comprehensive coverage from the top of the pile on Techmeme.
Somewhere in that mass of coverage, I read the thought that I think will sum up… »

Rex Dixon points us to ilovetocomplain.com, or B*SH, as the site is formally named. Its a simple, registration free bulletin board to post your bitter angry complaints about life, work, or school to the world, as anonymously as you wish. Its funny, relaxing to post, and relaxing to read - makes you realize you’re not… »

SuTree’s motto is “watch & learn” - and the site is a great place to do so. SuTree indexes video lessons from across the web: lessons are submitted to the site by members and editors, and can be rated, commented on, searched, and categorized. The site is clean, and the categories make it easy to… »

Amazon, reports the NYT, is blurring a lot of boundaries. With the “Fulfillment By Amazon” Business Solution, Amazon is creating a real-world platform with a physical set of API’s - taking the strategy of developing, surfacing, sharing, and selling back-end services that has worked so well online, and porting into the physical world. Fulfillment lets… »

Yeah, I got taken by Valleywag when Nick wrote this post - “Get out of Apple stock right now.” Starting with the breathless disclaimer that he had sold all of his Apple stock before writing the post, Nick went on to peg Apple as about to be beheaded by regulators.
Anyway, things turned out differently. I… »

Let me preface this by being very clear that this sort of thing is more or less beyond my level of technical acumen. That being said, it sounds like the next step in the battle against spammers and harvesters, and is being well received on Digg: http:BL surfaces the database of Project Honeypot - a… »