web2.0
Could Spotplex dethrone Digg as the King of social news?
TechCrunch has an article called "Is SpotPlex a Better Digg?" that ran today. While this seems a lot link link bait, there may be relevance to this statement. Digg, for all intents are purposes is a popularity content. SpotPlex, on the other hand, more accurately represents how much traffic an article is getting: Regardless of if the subject matter is popular. Both have pros and cons. Let's examine that.
OpenID, Microsoft, and AOL - Are Yahoo and Google in tow?
Let's face it: Remembering all of our login and passwords for the countless websites we use everyday sucks. I've blogged about it before. . OpenID set out to change all that, and appears to be making strides with both Microsoft and AOL. Will Google and Yahoo be next?
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What is OpenID? "OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." That's fancy talk for "OpenID allows you to login 'everywhere' with one login/password".
AOL = 63 Million More Open IDs
Is Google's Web-Based Presentation software ready for big business?
TechCrunch recently ran a story about an upcoming release from Google called 'Presently'. It will be a web based presentation software (think a Microsoft PowerPoint clone)
Online presentation software is nothing new to the web. There are already decent releases from Zoho.com (Zoho Show), Preezo, and Empressr in a race to become the first popular.
Zimbra: Open source makes 6 million moves on Microsoft
Zimbra, an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration, recently reached 6 million paid mailboxes. As a robust and affordable alternative to Microsoft's Exchange Server, Zimbra has continued to move upmarket and achieved tremendous growth over the past six months.
Two versions of Zimbra are available: a community-supported open-source version, and a commercially supported version ("Zimbra Network") with closed-source components. This foundation in open source, and the contribution back to the open source community has made Zimbra extremely popular.
Web 2.0 Fitness Website seeks partner
Gimme20.com, a web 2.0 social fitness community and workout tracking site is seeking a new partner.
The website is a new online fitness product that provides members with the ability to discover workout routines, track their workouts, and share workout routines with others in the community. There is even support for members using their mobile phones inside the gym to record results.
Our previous partner simply became to successful as a physical world personal trainer, that she had to leave the project in order to dedicate full time to her career.
As such, we are looking for a tech-savvy and business-minded partner who is enthusiastic about the fitness industry, can provide professional insight and refinements to features, has insight into marketing this product, and is regularly tapped in to the fitness industry pulse. We need a natural community manager: blog, add new content, welcome new comers to the community, look at other blogs in the space, etc.
