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rahsheen - who has written 180 posts on Black Web 2.0.
Rahsheen has been a certified geek since before it was cool. He has been a programmer since the 4th grade and is familiar with most languages. Now, Rahsheen mostly blogs about social media and web 2.0 as they relate to increasing quality of life and getting things done. He has released a few GreaseMonkey/AHK scripts and he is active in the video micro-blogging community. He is also a musician, singer+rapper, writer and producer. Find Rahsheen on Twitter as @rahsheen or visit his site SheenOnline
Tech Week in Review 11-6-09
Google Chrome Enables Bookmark Syncing If you use multiple computers, keeping your bookmarks in sync can be a pain. Now, Google Chrome adds the ability to sync your bookmarks between computers running Chrome by simply entering your Google Account information. The changes are instantaneous. The only catch is that you have to be running the latest beta [...]
Continue reading...Leapfish Brings Us the Living Web
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Leapfish is an interesting search portal that creates it's results by pulling together information from the major search engines. It also includes results from the social web and embeds all types of media directly on the results page. As you type your search, the results are pulled together using their “proprietary hyper-threading technology” in conjunction with the API’s of each service. Basically, LeapFish is a meta search engine.
Continue reading...Mozilla Raindrop and Google Wave Totally Unrelated
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
First, everyone was waiting with baited breath for Google to release Wave. Google Wave was supposed to be the solution for all of our messaging and social media needs. It would replace FriendFeed, email, Twitter, Facebook, shrink Kanye's ego, and solve world hunger. Once those few elite who got invites started to use it, we all realized it was no such solution.
Continue reading...Simler Makes Your Online Discussions More Focused
Monday, November 2, 2009
Simler is a new social network that takes a slightly different approach than usual. Rather than following specific people, you follow topics. This is similar to the way your average web forum works, but it’s much more flexible. You can also easily connect with people that share your interests by tagging yourself with those things [...]
Continue reading...Tech Week in Review 10-30-09
Friday, October 30, 2009
Google Music is a Reality Google has partnered with LaLa and iLike (owned by MySpace) to bring you enhanced music search. Not only can you preview and purchase music from artists you already like, but you can also use it to discover new artists.
Continue reading...Getting Things Done with Doit.im
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Doit.im is an Adobe AIR application that is closely tied to the original Getting Things Done techniques. The goal is to provide one simple interface that will help you hit the main GTD principles: Collect, Process, Organize, Review, Do. It’s a simple to use application with a clean interface and may be exactly what you’re [...]
Continue reading...Wetoku Lets You Interview Anyone from Anywhere
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wetoku is a video service which makes it dead simple to interview someone and share that video interview. They call this bringing the “talking heads” experience to your viewers. Once the recording is complete, you can copy the embed code and paste it into your blog or website. You can also get a link directly [...]
Continue reading...Tweetboard Brings Twitter Discussion to Your Site
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tweetboard is an application that creates a micro-forum on your website using your Twitter stream. It's near real-time since tweets will appear in less than 60 seconds. Your Twitter conversations are automatically threaded with unlimited nesting, which makes it easy to follow each discussion and get a broader picture of all conversations.
Continue reading...Tech Week in Review 10-23-09
Friday, October 23, 2009
No clue what took them so long, but photo sharing site Flickr has finally added the ability to tag people in your photos. You should be familiar with this feature from Facebook, but you have also probably been highly annoyed by this feature on Facebook as well. What makes Flickr's tagging features superior to Facebook's is the controls offered to the user.
Continue reading...iLike and LaLa Pull the Strings Behind Major Music Initiatives
Thursday, October 22, 2009
I've never really paid much attention to iLike or LaLa in the past, but it seems these two services are going to play an important role making music available to fans on the web, regardless of where they actually hang out. Myspace, Facebook, and Google are all using iLike and LaLa to power their latest music initiatives and expand their offerings.
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