Author Archives for Nico

Feedburner pro services for free


Google, the new owner of Feedburner, announced that two previously for-pay services are now completely free. These services are MyBrand and FeedBurner Stats PRO.
MyBrand lets you use your own domain name as the feed URL. Instead of a URL that looks something like http://feeds.feedburner.com/web2zero, it’s now completely possible to have a URL like http://www.web2zero.net/feed […]

Google buys FeedBurner


Created in 2004, Feedburner allows blog users to create and publish RSS feeds. FeedBurner has millions of readers every day. Google can now insert their adds in blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds.
Tags adds RSS

Wordpress reaches 1 million blogs created


The 1 millionth blog has been created this week on Wordpress.com. Launched 4 years ago, Wordpress is now the 4th most popular blog platform after Blogger, SixApart and MySpace.
Tags Blog Wordpress

Vpod.tv launched internet TV in full Screen


The one year old french startup Vpod.tv has launched a new feature called myTV that allows users to create their own Internet TV chanel. Vpod.tv looks like a mix between Joost and YouTube.
Users can upload their own videos directly through an application installed on their computer directly into their Vpot account. They can create […]

More invites for Joost


TechCrunch has been offering Joost invites on its forum for a while. Now they have set up a page on the Joost website to allow people to get invite easier.
Tags Joost Video

The Encyclopedia of Life


Many of the world’s leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multi-media access […]

Google Universal Search


After two years of development, Google has launched the Universal Search on their .com page. The search engine will look into every Google databases to offer the users as much information as possible.
Read More
Tags Google Search Search Engine

Real Estate goes 2.0


This website is a nice exemple on how web 2.0 turns websites into nice web application. Trullia is a real estate search engine that helps users find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level. Here are some nice functionnalities.
Google Map - All locations are located on a Google map so […]

Amazon offers broader RSS Feed functionalities


Amazon’s Customer Communities team has rolled out much broader support for RSS in the form of tag-based RSS feeds, says Ian McAllister from Amazon. This new functionality has been soft-launched and will be available on all the tag pages in the coming weeks. The option allows subscription to feeds with specific interest to the users […]

“Who’s Viewed My Profile” by LinkedIn


LinkedIn has launched a new feature that allows user to see who has viewed his profile. The feature displays the 20 latest people who visited your page, with their name and professional information. I am currently not able to view it, but you can get more info on the LinkedIn blog.
Tags LinkedIn Social Network