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If you have a blog or website where you publish product reviews, you’ll be interested in this. Here at Rev2, we obviously do reviews and so the new FTC rules will apply to us. Those rules, under ...
So you have the next hottest startup idea burning your idea tree and ready for development. All you need is a good name for it and a domain to match. Easy right? “Not so fast,” your marketing se...
Is there really a need for another online survey tool? Survey says: yep, if it’s more than just a Facebook app or lame “get paid to take…” offer. Survs.com is a new survey-making tool and service ...
If you’re idea of great pizza starts with a “D” or has the word “Hut” in it, then you probably don’t need to read any further. On the other hand, if your pizza requires a stone oven, charcoal gril...
File this under “that’s nutty awesome.” It’s an extremely simple idea and is probably as old as ASCII itself, but turning plain text upside down has been the stuff of cyber-trickery for all of our...
Forecasting trends and expected rises or drops is nothing new, of course. Stock analysts and market players do this for a living. But what about doing this for the market of concert and sports ti...
The idea behind Perpetually.com isn’t new, but it’s definitely something that’s always been improved upon as technology gets better. Websites are dynamic things and the content on a site is often ...
There are a lot of ways to communicate your story to the world. But on your website, you have just three options. Text, graphics and video. Why is it that 99% of the communications are in text form...
Websites that compare one site to another or link similar things, like apps or software, for comparison are not new. SitesLike.com, however, is different. Taking a more proactive approach, SitesLi...
Would really appreciate it, if you guys could vote for the panel I have suggested to the South By Southwest (www.sxsw.com) community. There is a good chance with many of your new votes, that I cou...
Very often, small teams of developers and designers don’t really require a project management app. Many services like BOX.net and Sharefile.com become the method of choice for sharing files with th...
If you’ve got a pet, specifically a dog, you’re probably a little worried about what to do if something happens or tired of sitting on hold or making a guess when those little injuries come up. Ma...
While Wolfram Alpha might be the revolution in search for scientific research, Socrata.com might be the revolution in search for publicly-owned data. The site combines data sets from over 200 publi...
Remember the print-your-own biz card kits at Office Max that used MS Word templates to make business cards you could print on your printer? Then came VistaPrint with their online business card desi...
When Facebook announced that they were going to implement user names (vanity names) on the site, some buzz started amongst users. When Facebook started promoting the change by giving it a virtual ...
The ever-popular VOIP and chat client, Skype, has released a new beta version for Windows that adds screen sharing. This was added to the last Mac beta in January, but the Windows version also incl...
Launching a start-up in today’s dot-com graveyard requires two must-have conditions to even get funding: You need to align with one of the few industries able to thrive during a recession, and you...
Since we’ve been doing so much about Twitter lately, it was time for Rev2 to have a good look at the most popular of Twitter apps: online photo services. Two things Twitter doesn’t supply are phot...
Here is a new post-modern twist on a popular idiom: If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the scholarly path that earnest researchers take while stumbling upon “2 girls 1 cup” is ...
We received a few requests to look over currency converters and pick our favorite. This sounds a lot easier than it is. There are literally hundreds of online currency converters out there, not inc...
The new Palm Pre is set to hit the streets, via the Sprint network, tomorrow. Sprint is hoping this will be their new flagship smartphone. AT&T and Verizon are hot on Sprint’s heels, waiting for...
Google has opened Google Squared to the public. The announcement came on Google’s blog Wednesday afternoon, posted by Alex Komoroske, the Associate Product Manager for Google Squared. Of course, y...
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has debuted, very quietly, and is already the talk of the ‘Net. Contrary to what you might have heard, Bing does not stand for “But It’s Not Google,” though that...
WolframAlpha.com, the new information search tool, has been up and running for over a week now. If you want to know exactly how long, just put “how old are you?” in the search box and WolframAlpha...
Once again, Facebook is all over the tech and business news. The fast-rising star of the social networking planetarium is on the verge of surpassing MySpace as most-used and is becoming the target...
As you might have noticed, VOIS.com recently acquired Rev2.org, and Craig Agranoff, who has been filling in for me for the last year or so, has now taken on the blog full-time as Editor. The decisi...
In seven days, the erotic services section as you know it on Craigslist will end. No more listings are being accepted and all current listings will expire at or before that time. This is due to p...
There’s a lot of buzz about Microsoft’s latest ads aimed at iTunes. Apparently, the four Laptop Hunter ads Microsoft ran to target the price difference between Macs and PCs have been well-received...
As many of you know, I am involved with several websites including VOIS, which I am a co-founder of. Please hear me out this is not a shameless VOIS plug. I have never written about my involvement ...
Imagine telling your entire study group you found the cheat sheet for the test in the Dumpster outside the Science Hall, with one click of the button. Or letting your girlfriends know that Margarit...
USA Today is reporting that Apple is in serious talks with Verizon Wireless about a possible iPhone for Verizon’s CDMA network. Apple’s exclusivity deal with AT&T ends in 2010. While AT&T might at...
Two things fill the Twitterverse right now: discussions of how badly Twitter is performing and worries about how large it’s getting in such a short amount of time. I’m sure the folks at Twitter ar...
Times, they are a changin’ for Mac users. Fans of Mac systems have been relatively virus and trojan-free, since most malicious programmers usually aim their sights on PCs and Windows. Symantec’s ...
Some of you might be familiar with CheckUserNames, which was a service to check user name availability on popular sites throughout the Web, so you could use one name across several sites. Well, the...
Hotmail’s developers have announced that a web-based instant messenger (IM) client will be coming to Hotmail very soon. Based on the MSN client, it will likely function similarly to the Google IM i...
The big news in today’s business world is Sun’s setting on the proposed IBM deal in favor of taking the Oracle offer instead. Both Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced today that they’ve reached a...
Twitter CEO Evan Williams just teased everyone from his cellphone using less then 140 words. He said “Tomorrow just became a very big day” and continued with “Sorry for the teaser - more later.” ...
Tonight is another meetup of the Social Media Club of South Florida. It will be taking place at Yahoo! Hispanic Americas in Coral Gables. 1 Alhambra Plaza to be precise. This month’s top is Soc...
If many of our readers didn’t know by now, we have a twitter account under the name @rev2. We put out all our posts there, and some ramblings every now and then. Following us is a great way to en...
TalentSpring announced today that they received funding to the tune of 1.6 million. Based in Seattle, Washington, Talentspring is a leading provider of semantic-search technology for talent sourc...
“Find Alternatives to Everything” is Dooblet’s search engine motto. It’s not a Web or Internet search engine, like Google (which it is obviously inspired by) or Yahoo, but instead it’s a search eng...
Let’s say you’re an independent news organization with a small budget and only two mobile crews to cover an entire city with. What if, for the same cost in equipment as those two traditional crews ...
Everyone’s on a budget these days and ZingSale hopes to harness that need and create a budget-minded shopping portal. It’s not a store or even an affiliate-link, but rather a sort of RSS feeder for...
Are you a freelancer or someone who does something that bills by the hour? A DJ or a dog walker, perhaps? Whether you work at something full or part time, you might be able to use HourVille. The s...
If you’ve heard of Swurl or Sweetcron, you’re familiar with the of mashups of your Web 2.0 interfaces (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and so forth) into a single site or page to centralize your inform...
wePapers started with the laudable goal of making people smarter by allowing shared information on a university level, the site does all that and then some. Students or those interested in expandin...
Forget Bear and Bull markets. They got nothing on the Simian Market. Portfolio Monkey is an investments tracking and portfolio management site for self-guided investors. The site focuses not on in...
Americans have a lot of junk. Many of us have so much, that we don’t even know we have it. That explains why we make NetFlix requests for movies we already own, or buy three copies of Thomas Friedm...
AOL has been gradually rolling out its newly redesigned home page (click here to see it). The final change will be within the next few weeks. Gone are the bland earth tone colors that they copied ...
Editor’s note: this post is 100% biased. Please take it for what it is. Hello folks! I haven’t moved to Mars. Or at least, yet. I’ve just been busy, as I’m sure you’re used to hearing by now. So be...
Although this might come as a shock to many readers….nothing is really private on the internet anymore. With just the click of a mouse, you can pretty much find out anything about anyone. 123peop...
Cooliris was one of those web browser add-ons I discovered last year. It was one of those “OMG this is cool”moments. The makers of Cooliris, which used to be known as PicLens, released an applica...
Today GrooveShark, my favorite music site has announce a new way to upload songs directly from your hard drive into GSlite without downloading a client. Basically, if you have a song on your comput...
BillShrink, a company we previously covered here, has just closed a Series B funding round to the tune of 8 million. This latest round of financing brings their total amount raised to $9 million, ...
Mapquest has decided to step up its one dominant presence today. Both Yelp Reviews and Sports News will now be included on the site. Last month MapQuest launched a new feature called MapQuest Loca...
How nice of Ebay. The company has announced it plans to lay off approximately 1000 employees, which equates to 10% of its workforce. Ebay will also remove hundreds of temp positions from the payr...
Apple just announced on the front page of the iPhone development site, that they have decided to discontinue the NDA (non-disclosure agreement) that has prevented developers from speaking openly ab...
We have all unfortunately been the victims of political lies and manipulation. Seems like every promise made by someone running for office nowadays, ends up a lie almost the day after elected. Ev...
We have all unfortunately been the victims of political lies and manipulation. Seems like every promise made by someone running for office nowadays, ends up a lie almost the day after elected. Ev...
Having been down for the better part of a month, Muxtape’s creator, Justin Ouellette, has announced that the service is springing back to life, albeit with an entirely new direction. In his post, ...
Disqus, you have made me proud by launching a full public API. The details can be found here. If you read my previous post about the Automattic acquisition of IntenseDebate, you will notice I am ...
Wordpress, which is easily the number 1 or 2 blog platform on the worldwide web made by Automattic, has announced today that they have acquired the third party comment service IntenseDebate. Intens...
To add to all our excitement today, Twitter finally redesigned parts of the site. The extremely popular microblogging site made the move, as they have numerous new features they will unveil soon a...
A new startup called BillShrink that is quite similar to LowerMyBills, has announced that they will now help their users cut costs on their Credit Cards, using their automated advisor. Prior to he...
Dopplr, the social network based upon traveling just announced they have raised new funds with a group of names that could make anyone jealous. This is their second round of financing. Although th...
It has been almost a week since I started messing around with the new Chrome Browser from Google at home. Would love to use it from work, but I have a Mac. One of the most relevant questions I had ...
For those of you who do not find enough Alien Sightings on Digg, Reddit, or Mixx, your wishes have come true. Alien UFO Believers is a social-blog site that allows its users to vote up stories abo...
Full disclosure: TapSmack is joining Rev2 as a new sponsor, but since we haven’t covered them before, we figured even our sponsors needed to hear what we think. My attempt is to be as un-biased as ...
JetBlue is using Ebay to auction off over 300 round-trip flights, and six vacation deals this week. In a rather bold move, JetBlue is starting the auctions at $0.05 - $0.10. Flights will be avail...
It doesn’t appear from my inbox that facebook has figured out a way to control the recent spam campaign being spread throughout the site. Apparently if you click on the link that is sent to you in...
Picasa, should be announcing right about now that they are lauching a new facial recognition software with their latest update today. Other features are also rumored to be launched, including a wa...
As someone who lives in the Path of Hurricane Harm, I tend to spend most of the storm season with my eyes glued to the television, and weather websites. Up until recently, I frequented NOAA every ...
Ping.fm, the easy to use service that lets you mass update several social profiles at once, has announced that they are now in open beta. As a member myself, I have been using ping almost everyday...
Over the next several weeks Google’s Blogger will be rolling out some new features. These new features are being launched in an attempt to make the blogging platform a little more social. Apparent...
Following up to the inaugral post of my new focus for Rev2 — the entrepreneur — I received a great suggestion from Gonzalo Arzuago of KillerStartups: the entrepreneur and the deadline/time/launch d...
This week PicLens, now referred to as Cooliris, announced that their amazing product is ready to be used on Safari 3.1 for Mac users. For users like myself, this is a more then welcomed update. A...
A brief change over here at Rev2: While Craig is busy churning out awesome news-reviews-and-what’s-cool posts (which is what Rev2 has always been about), I have decided — instead of procrastinating...
Adium released Adium 1.3 last night. The new version contains 261 fixed issues! Adium, is a popular Mac instant messaging client that allows users to access a wide array of their current messenge...
According to the friendfeed blog yesterday, a new design will be launched in beta mode, to help get feedback from existing members before making it available to the general public. You can play wi...
Center’d is an excellently designed website that helps connect you with places, people, restaurants, maps, schools, shops, museums, hotels, and much more. The service is great and extremely easy to...
The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia has announced at the Gnomedex conference today that they are going to make their code available in open source. The gnomodex conference is being held in Se...
For those who have noticed that craigslist has started to require Phone Verification in order to post in the services section, get used to seeing it for good. It appears that verifying you are rea...
Boulder, Colorado based socialthing! has been acquired by AOL. Although the lifestreaming service only launched five months ago in private beta, AOL deemed it supposedly fit with their model. S...
Boulder, Colorado based socialthing! has been acquired by AOL. Although the lifestreaming service socialthing! only launched five months ago in private beta form, AOL saw some potential. Socia...
Having tried every to-do list, calendar, note-taking, task-managing tool out there, I had almost given up on flashy AJAX tools that were supposed to make you more productivity and accepted that the...
Ever wonder what will happen if you purchased an application for your iPhone from the iTunes store, and the application was removed from iTunes soon after? It would seem somewhat logical that Appl...
Disqus, the webwide comments system I’m proud to say we were one of the first to cover last year, has undoubtedly come afar. They’ve been widely accepted amongst the blogosphere as the comments sys...
According to TheMacBox, the makers of some iPhone apps, the PhoneSaber has been voluntarily pulled from iTunes. Many of you will know the PhoneSaber application if you checked the top 25 free apps...
Rackspace started trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. The ticker symbol is RAX. Initially San Antonio based Rackspace planned on raising 400 million, but due to market conditions, they...
One of the first things I ask a company when they come to me for consulting is, who handles your email? Approximately 7 out of 10 say godaddy, networksolutions, or one of the other domain registri...
One of the first things I ask a company when they come to me for consulting is, who handles your email? Approximately 7 out of 10 say GoDaddy, NetworkSolutions, or one of the other domain registri...
Yesterday I walked by the Apple store in Boca Raton, Florida and was shocked to see no line out the door finally. I proceeded in and asked if they had the new iPhone 3G in stock, and they did! Si...
Yesterday I headed down to Miami and attended Social Media Camp. This event was scheduled to coincide with Mashable’s summer tour stop in Miami. After partaking in several Bar Camp get togethers...
Over the years I have been using many sites to get cheat codes for games, and discount codes for items. Sites like slickdeals and bargainist offer great coupon codes and alerts for items on sale....
Ed. Note: This post may be a little off-topic, but who doesn’t like free phones? Over the years I have been using many sites to get cheat codes for games, and discount codes for items. Sites lik...
Delicious today finally unveiled their long awaited “2.0″ rehaul — the one they’ve been talking about for a year — at delicious.com. The new version features a faster interface, better search, and ...
A search engine which has been making waves in the blogosphere for the last day or two is Cuil (pronounced “cool”). You’ve probably used it twice already, and its random search results (in some cas...
Payoneer has just raised $8 Million dollars in a B round of financing. The Series B came from Greylock and Carmel ventures. Payoneer allows its cardholders to receive payments (ach) without havin...
I just completed my download of the new WordPress iPhone application. I am actually testing it by writing this post. Since I have a few blogs that use the WordPress platform, this is probably the a...
I love nifty voicemail services which make use of the Internet in some day. This one doesn’t really make use of the Internet so much other than for marketing purposes, but it’s still very cool. The...
Update/Ed Note: Editing this on the iPhone app. Awesome. Wordpress just announced on their blog that their iPhone application was successfully uploaded to the iTunes store and is currently in the ...
Update 2: 8PM PDT — the service seems to be back up. Wow. What a downtime. Update: 11:23 AM PDT - still down. “Testing is still in progress. We’re working very hard to restore service to our custo...
Motorguru.com recently launched to take on the media giants in the valuable auto web space. Founded by two guys both qualified to execute their vision, this is not just another car web site featu...
Meebo announced the launch of CommunityIM today, what they’re calling an “open instant messaging for online communities.” The platform is intended for online communities — be it a blog or gaming gr...
With chatter dating back to last Friday, the news was made official today — Twitter has acquired Summize, an interactive search tool which piggy backs on the Twitter API launched a couple months ag...
I just finished reading an intriguing open letter from Steve Outing. The letter was addressed to Craig Newmark, who is the founder of Craigslist. Outing suggest that Craigslist considers four th...
When the first iPhones came to market in the U.S. back in June of 2007, only 270,000 were sold during the first couple of days. It took 74 days to sell their first one millionth unit. According to...
I am perplexed why people would waste their time waiting on lines to buy a new 3G iPhone. Yes, I happen to have an iPhone myself, and yes, I plan on getting the 3G version, however….you will not f...
Smashing Darling has released Version 2 of their website which comes full of new and improved navigation that works much more intuitively. On top of that they have added filters to make it easier f...
Grooveshark Lite is a new ’sub-service’ launched by the innovative guys that brought us Grooveshark, a combination music store (iTunes) and music community (Last.fm), with elements drawn from each,...
Ed. Note: This is the inaugural post of new writer, Craig Agranoff, who will be joining us to fill for my slack time. I have always found it peculiar why people use Craigslist. Don’t get me wrong ...
TripSay is a new travel social network that is currently in a private beta (the first 25 Rev2 readers who e-mail info@tripsay.com with “Rev2″ in the subject line will get be able to obtain an invit...
Awesome Rev2′ers, Apologies for the lack of posting lately! I haven’t forgotten — my absence is the cause of one reason and one reason only: I’ve been truly, truly busy working on my new startup, N...
It’s been a interesting few last couple of years for Technorati. Despite being a fairly highly trafficked site, hiring an able CEO, and plowing through VC money round after round, it has failed to ...
Local search has been fairly traditional since it has been deemed the “next big thing” in search. Today, Google Maps is more or less the standard for most consumers — search for a business in a spe...
I like services which fulfill people’s curiosities and make information more widely accessible in the world, and that’s exactly what Glassdoor.com is — for salaries. Ever been curious about what pe...
In my continuing covering of sites, services and startups that do more good for humanity than they do for Sand Hill Road, I was informed today about Changents — a site/social network/community that...
inSuggest is a really cool service which launched a little while ago and I’m surprise I missed. Recommendations and suggestions have a thing on the web ever since the early days of Amazon when it w...
When Wikia Search, a search play by wiki-communities site Wikia first launched, it pretty sucked. Even Jimmy Wales himself, founder, admitted to TechCrunch that “it has not been usable on a day to ...
As if Google’s UI couldn’t get any simpler and barebones, there’s Goosh.org. What is it? Well, a “UNIX-like command-line interface for Google” would be the best way to describe it, but you should r...
The way I like to think of Twitter is like a ‘command line for the web and your community.’ But with this command line, you can do special things like ask questions and receive real-time answers — ...
If Twitter was all about “what are you doing?”, Plurk is more about “what are you doing, loving, liking, hating, sharing, wanting, wishing willing, thinking…? (and it goes on)”. It’s the blog-o-buz...
Dave Sifry, Technorati founder and chairman, seems to have moved on from his blogging baby, and this time he’s taking on the travel guides industry. Launched over the weekend in a private beta, Off...
Reviews are scattered all over the web. When movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes launched a few years ago, that basically ended my multiple visits to the NY Times, LA Times, and [insert n...
Mobaganda launched their service today — the first practical, usable application I’ve seen built on Google’s App Engine. Essentially, it’s a dead simple and minimal version of Evite — allowing you ...
Since its conception, Gmail has evolved re-invented web-mail. It turned what used to be stale, crappy corporate ‘if I have to use it’ systems to the default, usable, and standard way to use e-mail ...
With the limitation of desktop software, annotations — or “notes on documents” — hasn’t really taken of, let alone be useful in a practical way. A.nnotate, a web app which lets you upload documents...
Alternative money-making services for publishers and content creators have been out there, but only now are we starting to see real, liable forms of these be practical take off. One such service is...
Just a few moments ago, FriendFeed launched FriendFeed Rooms — a feature that, in a few words, allows you to make and have your own mini-FriendFeed for a particular subject or a group of people. Fo...
Om Malik spent some time digging up details on Twitter’s supposed funding round and was able to report that they have raised a $15 million round. The VC seems a little unclear but Michael Arrington...
Fuzz.com, a website for music lovers and creators, launched Blip sometime this week, a service that is basically a Twitter for music listeners and asks “What are you listening to?”. The site has be...
Officially unveiling tomorrow, Microsoft is launching Live Search Cashback — a tool that seeks to save shopper-searchers money, or at least, those who use it. The site, or at least a majority of it...
Twitter made the world share, in 140 characters, what they’re doing at the very moment, and in a similar fashion, BeenUp2 wants to let the world share what they’ve been up to generally with their l...
Techmeme, which has become the single go-to site for all important and note-worthy tech news over the last few months, has finally added search functionality to the site — a way to search through i...
Disclosure: Userplane has been a longtime sponsor of Rev2. With video already tipped in the real world, web publishers have been playing catch up to the demands of today’s consumers. Text is old, p...
When I first saw the demo of FireFly, my instant reaction was, “no freaking way!”. Turns out I was wrong, and yes, there is one freaking way — it’s called FireFly. Launching recently at the Tech Me...
The book binded together a lot of information into a portable format. The eBook questioned it — asking why it had to be something physical and with a hard cover when the digital age allowed for inf...
Back in 1999 when you were working on your Angelfire homepage and waiting for your My Excite homepage to load, if I were to tell you the idea behind this service, you’d laugh in absolute ridicule a...
Tunesbag is a site I was pointed to by a friend, and recently let into to their invite-only beta (request to the Tunesbag folks: Rev2 readers are craving invites). The best way I can describe the s...
“Finally, something!” are the cheers in Silicon Valley this morning. Powerset, the mega-hyped underdog Google killer semantic play, has finally launched a working demo of its product. While the sea...
In the midst of writing about newly launched hype-machines, I’m always flattered when I come across a tool that I haven’t heard about, but is well-built and already accumulating users. Such was Dip...
Visual search engines, or rather, the ones that make a claim to provide alternative visual ways to search, have been on the rise lately — and rightly so, with the advent of Flash and AJAX. A few da...
UPDATE: First 8 comments get an invite! Ed. Note: Apologies for the down time! I’ve been immensely busy between travelling, setting up a home office, and working on a startup. Hope things can get b...
First, it was Dodgeball — the first supposed local social network. That got bought by Google and dumped into the trash can. Then it was Twitter. It’s evolved so much more that “what are you doing?”...
If there ever would be an eBay 2.0 (or an eBay for the Web 2.0 generation), here it is. Wigix, which stands for “WantItGotItExchange,” is a newly launched service based around the idea of a communi...
I have been a skeptic of the mobile platform for quite some time — specifically, mobile advertising and how effective it really is. But recently after watching Robert Scoble’s interview with Omar H...
The blogosphere’s been abuzz lately about Twitter — everyday, it seems a Twitter disaster makes its way to the blogs of its very users, leaving them with nothing more than a cringe and a hope. Whet...
Ed. Note: In addition to the regular startup/product reviews, I’ll be covering more news/acquisitions/trends stories for the next couple of weeks. Depending on how that works out, I’ll either stick...
Being one of the first contenders and applicants on the Semantic Web/Web 3.0 bandwagon, one of the hyped products over the year has been Twine. Richard MacManus covered it on ReadWriteWeb back in O...
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