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Web 2.0 Sites

If Web 1.0 was about bringing information onto the web, then Web 2.0 is about bringing the web to you. Find out more about what makes these Web 2.0 sites worth your while.

What is PlayCafe?

PlayCafe is an online game show that is played every night Monday through Friday, and everyone registered with the website is a contestant.

What is ShareThis?

ShareThis is a utility that makes it easy to share articles to social media websites like Digg or Facebook. Because it features both a web widget for content producers like bloggers and a browser plugin for readers, ShareThis is attractive to just about a

What is Yoono?

Yoono is a web browser plug-in that acts as a social aggregator by gathering social networking information and keeping it in one place.

What is Pandora?

Pandora is a web 2.0 radio station based on the Music Genome Project.

What is Wix?

Wix is an online Flash development studio that uses a drag-and-drop interface to allow people without any knowledge of Flash to quickly and easily create Flash websites.

What is Hulu?

Hulu provides premium video content including television shows and full-length movies. Founded by NBC Universal and News Corp., Hulu offers movies through a wide range of partnerships with various studios including MGM, Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures Tel

What is Flickr?

Flickr was launched in February of 2004 and is the world's most popular repository of images and photographs.

What is Clipmarks?

Clipmarks is a web widget and browser plugin that allows you to clip parts of articles and put them on display on your blog or Facebook profile.

Let Us Know About Your Startup

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How to Put Social Media Buttons on a Tumblr Blog

Anyone with a Tumblr account can share content with other users by pressing the “Like” button or the “Reblog” button on a particular blog post. These built-in buttons allow anyone to share content within the virtual walls of the Tumblr network; however they don’t give you the flexibility of sharing content on any other major social media sites...

Top 10 Most Popular Blogs

Blogging has become one of the most popular ways to report content and discuss it online. The most popular blogs on the web have countless numbers of pages and receive millions of visits per month from Internet users around the world. With over 150 million blogs in existence along with that number growing rapidly, there’s a lot of competition to...

Rage Faces: Internet Meme Faces and Funny Memes

Spending a lot of time on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, StumbleUpon and Reddit will expose you to something that is relatively new on the Internet landscape—the Internet meme. An Internet meme is usually a photo, video or general idea from the Internet that gets passed around rapidly from one user to another. These...

10 Sites to Watch Free TV Shows Online (Full Episodes)

These days, you don’t need a television set to enjoy your favorite TV shows. There are plenty of user generated sites and major television network sites that host full episodes of some of the most popular shows on the web, completely free for you to watch and enjoy. The trick is finding the best sites. Some sites will scam you into signing up...

10 Cool Websites to Look at When Bored

There’s almost too much to look at on the web these days, and you could literally spend your whole day browsing and searching for the most interesting stories, photos, jokes, articles or videos that are out there. If you need to kill some time or just want to find a couple new interesting sites to fill in some of those empty spots in your...

10 Great Sites with Free Valentine Ecards

Traditionally, we have always given paper Valentine cards to people we admire and care about on February 14th. Now that much of our lives are spent checking email, thumb texting on smartphones, and browsing social networking sites to see what our friends are up to, why not send a few virtual Valentine ecards while you’re at the computer?

Where to Find Tumblr Themes for Free

Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms right now, and people all over the web are scrambling to find good free Tumblr themes that look nice and professional. If you’re really dedicated to growing a popular Tumblr blog or already have a loyal readership, then you might consider hiring a web designer to customize a theme for you....

10 Weird & Funny Tumblr Blogs You Should Follow

The web is a place where weirdness thrives. And on Tumblr, that statement couldn’t be any more true. Some of the strangest GIFs and photos get reblogged by thousands of users, many of which make absolutely no sense at all. But hey, they’re funny and weird, so why not? Whether you’re new to Tumblr and need a few blog suggestions to follow or if...

The Evolution of the Web in 1000 Words

It’s 2012. You check your Facebook newsfeed almost daily, spend about an hour a day at work answering email and you’re always connected wherever you go--thanks to the power of your nifty iPhone. Many of us can’t recall being consciously aware that the Internet existed prior to the 90s, but believe it or not, the history of the web actually dates...

The History of Facebook: How Facebook Became an Internet Behemoth in 8 Years

Facebook has woven itself in and around almost every aspect of the Internet. If you have a business, you better be on Facebook. And if you want to sign up for a particular website, like Chill.com for example, you better have a Facebook account, or else you can’t do it.

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