Web 2.0

The power of user community unleash

2007-05-01T23:44:19-12:00:00

User post about HD-DVD encryption story and digg delete the story. This cause madness, a lot of user start digging and posting all HD-DVD encryption. Some claim about 50000 digging. The power of user community unleashed. Finally, Kevin Rose surrended to the power of user community

Quote from Kevin Rose blog "after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be."

Schmapplets the site to share experience and travel

2007-03-11T20:43:21-12:00:00

Schmapplets lets you share favorites place with friends, rate and review local restaurant, share holiday photos and others minor features. Here are screenshot from the site.

Create online comic

2007-03-08T02:31:11-12:00:00

1. http://www.wittycomics.com/
WittyComics introduce online comic creation by choosing background and people.

2. http://www.garfield.com/

3. StripCreator

4. Marvel Comic Book Creator (this desktop application)

Reserve parking space from your mobile phone

2007-03-01T00:01:29-12:00:00

SpotScout introduce a new way to reserve parking space. The parking space is gone to the highest bidder. It will become interesting when the parking space is public space. Is it ethical to denied parking for who come first but give to others who give higher payment to the parking spot?

This diagram show how it works, the detail explanation is in SpotScout

Fleck a combination of bookmark and annonated website

2007-02-28T03:13:52-12:00:00

Fleck has the ability to bookmark a page, annotated note on a website and share it. It has firefox extension to allow easy to fleck! at the same time have javascript widget which allow experiment it directly without adding the extension.

Widgets growth skyrocket in 2007

2007-02-27T19:44:16-12:00:00

Widgets already exist in the past. However, it is not really taking of until end of last year and beginning of this year especially with the launch of Vista, Yahoo Widgets and Google Widgets.
More than 1000 Yahoo Widgets

More than 4000 Google Widgetss

Virtual City for Real World

2007-02-26T16:50:32-12:00:00

VirtualCity founded in 2005 which show photographs of surrounding places from map pointer. The photographs collected from mobile communication center using high definition video camera.

Zoho Notebook

2007-02-25T00:09:53-12:00:00

Zoho Notebook is an online application for note taking similar to Microsoft onenote and google note. Zoho notebook design with a simple interface that will enable user to get note all over the place and to publish it anywhere

CellBlock features capture, publish and collaborate

2007-02-24T23:38:20-12:00:00

Photo and video capture by user showing up in player within seconds. No more refreshing or reloading of image and videos. It offer convinient way to share, publish and collaborate online.

Mixi the myspace of Japan

2007-02-24T09:40:16-12:00:00

Mixi offer diary, music, review, community and mobile features. The interface reflect diffrent culture between US and Japan. Japan culture prefer using box and cute icon.

Diary features

Community Features

Review features

Music features

Mobile features