Trouble determaning your presidential candidate?

If you’re like most people in America, you’re either not interested in any of the candidates seeking nomination for president, or you’re unable to actually determine the difference between any of them. That’s where Glassbooth comes in! Using some of web 2.0′s buzzword technologies, Glassbooth walks you through a quick and simple quiz, where you’ll also determine your key points of interest in this year’s campaign. Doing the quiz myself and having a few friends do it, we were all pretty surprised at the accuracy of the results, accurately recommending to us the candidates we were already supporting.

November 5th in Internet, Politics, Web 2.0 | | 15 comments
Contribute to the junkyard of photographic art


Deleted Images

Everyone with a digital camera has had photos that just had to be deleted. Blurred, boring, out of frame, blinking strangers, the list of reasons is endless. Now, instead of deleting them outright, revive them, by contributing your photos to Deleted Images, a group dedicated to bringing undesired snapshots back to life. What may be junk to you, may be art to others.

Contribute: Deleted Images

July 5th in Art, Internet, Photos, Social, Web 2.0 | | 22 comments
Bunch of Nerds blocked in China :( :( :(


china.jpg

According to the Great Firewall of China web app, Bunch of Nerds is one of the many many many many sites blocked in China. Which is really depressing, cause, I really like China! Naturally I’m not so hot on the human rights abuse, the perverted form of commutalistism, the mad amount of industrial expansion and the pollution which follows it, but, still, I’ve never done wrong by you China, why does it have to go down like this?

Is your site or blog blocked by the Great Firewall of China?

Are you blocked?: Great Firewall of China

March 15th in China, Internet, Web 2.0 | | 4 comments
Twitterrificly terrific!


Twitter

So Twitter is our new fun obsession and what better way to enjoy a newfound hobby is there than to find all the free and open source software you can for it!? NONE! Twitterrific is a light and fun little application that lets you easily publish “tweets” to your Twitter account or read tweets from your Twitter contacts, all while stylishly occupying a small spot of real estate on your Mac’s desktop. Let your friends know what level your World of Warcraft character is or how badly you want the iPhone you’re reading about without having to leave your desktop!

Download: Twitterrific | Twitter

February 2nd in Downloads, Macintosh, OS X, Software, Twitter, Web 2.0 | | 8 comments
CogMap – The organization chart wiki


CogMap

CogMap is the Wikipedia of organizational charts, meaning, a collection of charts online that anyone can create, edit, maintain or contribute to. A handy tool for businesses and organizational nerds alike, CogMap is a brilliant exercise in next-gen web design.

Read more: CogMap

November 24th in Community, Internet, Web 2.0 | | 9 comments
Korean social network, Cyworld launches in the US


Cyworld - South Korean social network system

South Korean mega-social network Cyworld has launched in the US, bringing another avatar-based social system to the already crowded US market. Cyworld is a giant in South Korea, with reportedly 90% of the population under the age of 20 registered to the service, which is a market share I doubt they’ll ever see here in the US. Cyworld ties in a web-game with social networking, allowing the user to create their own personalized cartoon avatar and Minihome to personalize and invite friends to visit. There is even an in-world currency (not currently present in the US version) where users can purchase more Cyworld Currency (Acorns?) in exchange for real-world currency (not sure if that works vice-versa). I unfortunately don’t see this service taking off stateside, as their reliance on the younger market just doesn’t translate over to the US and with services like MySpace and Facebook currently struggling to define themselves in the youth market, it makes it that much rougher for Cyworld.

Read more: Cyworld (Via Techcrunch)

July 28th in Community, Internet, Social, Web 2.0 | | 9 comments
How are you feeling today?


Emotionr

New web-application Emotionr wants to know how you and the rest of the world are feeling. Have you had a bad day, well, now you can let the world know about it AND effect the world’s overall happiness level at the same time! Consider Emotionr your personal emotion log, you sign-in to the site, set your happiness level, enter a one word answer about your current feeling and another one word as to what makes you feels this way, then submit. You are also free to keep track of your friend’s moods and their friends and so on, social-networking style.

Read more: Emotionr – How are you feeling today?

July 27th in Community, Internet, Web 2.0, Web Applications | | 13 comments
Famous logos re-designed for web 2.0


Web 2.0 the mainstream

The designavists over at Yay Hooray have started a huge thread of traditionally mainstream or “famous” logos being re-designed to be more web 2.0. There are quite some gems and a hell of a lot of aqua and gradients going on, but man, the ABC, Citi, and Nike logo re-imagines are good stuff. Thanks to a Digg of the thread, we’re getting a lot of interesting gripes on what web 2.0 is and isn’t, which is almost as entertaining as the actual redesigns themselves!

Read more: [Famous logos redesigned for web2.0]

July 25th in Design, Logos, Web 2.0 | | 21 comments