All Web 2.0

Mixx

Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools. Users of Mixx can control a personalized blend of web content that includes text-based articles, images and videos. Mixx users can search and discover media relevant to their interests, and interact with friends and other Mixx users who share their common in...

Clearspring

Clearspring Technologies is a privately held Web 2.0 software company that offers a web widget platform. Clearspring's viral distribution product enables web widgets to be shared and distributed across blogging, social networking sites, and personal Web sites. Clearspring's product offering also includes two approaches toward advertising with widgets: widgets that are served as ad content through an ad server, and an ad network that provides advertisers the ability to serve advertisements within...

Cuil

Cuil is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power...

Google is your friend

I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don’t look beyond the first three hits (two of which are usually sponsored), etc., etc. Sure, that’s all true, but Google is a lot more than search. I don’t think I’m off base in saying that Google provides the largest, free set of Web 2.0 tools availa...