All Web 2.0

Gyminee

Gyminee is a new social network focused on health and fitness, with work out and tracking tools included in its service. The site is not yet live, but I got to test drive the private beta. There are two main components of the site: your locker room, and your workouts. These two components work hand in hand to help you track your progress and stay on track. Enter in the goals you’d like to set for yourself. You can track several aspects of your health and fitness, like water intake, body weig...

Scour

Scour Inc. was a multimedia search engine on the internet, and provided Scour Exchange, an early peer-to-peer file exchange service. Scour was founded by five students (Vince Busam, Michael Todd, Dan Rodriques, Jason Droege and Kevin Smilak) from the Computer Science Deptartment of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1997. It moved into the spotlight in 1999 when former Disney president Michael Ovitz bought about a quarter of its shares.The company's early products were an SMB s...

Delicious

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Delicious uses a non-hierarchical classification system in which users can tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms (generating a kind of...

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles. Web pages are presented when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not ...

twitterfeed

Twitterfeed allows you to feed your blog into Twitter. You provide the URL of a blog’s RSS feed and how often you want posts to Twitter, and twitterfeed does the rest. Getting started Here’s how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) twittering: Create a new twitter user at twitter.com (or use your existing one) this twitter user is going to be the one posting your blog entries. twitterfeed needs to know your chosen twitter username and password so it can post your blog upda...