Category Archives: web 2

MapQuest introduces draggable maps

Posted on September 29, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

MapQuest introduced their take on draggable maps. The maps themselves are nicer than Microsoft’s and Yahoo’s, but not at the same level as Google’s, both in terms of appearance and performance. One big disappointment: If you do a search using … Continue reading →

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Geotagging the world with Flickr

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

At long last, Flickr has released a geotagging interface. Geo tagging is the process of applying longitude and latitude data to assets – in Flickr’s case, to images. Why would you want to do this? It’s easiest to explain with … Continue reading →

Posted in flickr, geotagging, google, gps, local search, maps, mashups, web 2, web 2.0, yahoo | 3 Comments

Comedy Central vs. YouTube

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

Last night, the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert’s satire of Bill O’Reilly, aired a hilarious segment about Wikipedia and what Colbert termed “Wikiality”. It was so funny, I wanted to share it with some friends. I went to Comedy Central’s Web … Continue reading →

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Unleashing the power of the buddy list

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

I’ve been using a number of different social networking sites recently – LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, AIM Pages, Digg, Netscape, YouTube, Yelp, Netflix. With every one of them, I face the same problem. When I join, I’m all by lonesome. (Except … Continue reading →

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