Tech Week in Review 10-23-09

Tech Week In Review

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.

iLike and LaLa Pull the Strings Behind Major Music Initiatives

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.

Google Sidewiki Brings Discussion To Every Website

Google Sidewiki dropped last week and hasn’t actually sparked much discussion from what I can see. It allows you to read and leave comments on any website you visit. It’s an interesting concept and could be very useful, but there are some implications here.

Tech Week in Review 9-25-09

Tech Week In Review

SocialToo: Your Vaccine For The Social Web

SocialToo is well know as a service to help you manage your Twitter following. They started out offering an auto-dm service, but later reversed their stance and became a service to help you block all auto-dm’s. In response to the frequent Twitter attacks we’ve seen recently, Jesse Stay decided to do something about it.

Office.com Goes Live. Nothing To See Here.

Microsoft’s shiny new domain Office.com went live today. When they first bought the domain earlier this month, the blogosphere went crazy with speculations about what they would be doing with it. Google pretty much owns the whole cloud concept, being able to store and edit your documents right on the web, so it seems logical that Microsoft will have to enter this territory at some point if they want to remain relevant.