Equals is a social networking utility distributed through Facebook that enables users to initiate an instantaneous group phone chat*, adding voice to social networking. Party Line™ allows up to five people to talk for free**, simultaneously with no complex set-up, dial-ins or pass-codes. Instead of having to call multiple people at different numbers, you can [...]

The developers over at Schmap.com have release a neat little web-app that lets you browse for a variety of locations and events through most major cities from your iPod Touch or iPhone.
Its easy, just browse to http://www.schmap.com from either of those Apple devices over Wi-Fi or EDGE. Select the city you wish to peruse and [...]

On Monday February 4th AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 which has developed quite a nice set of simple & intuitive tools for communicating and sharing on the web. Essentially they have created a complete web-based desktop environment with all the tools needed to productive without [...]

Pownce has opened their up their messenger-like service to the public this week. Similar to Twitter, Pownce allows you to send micro-blog style messages to your friends, but that is just the start. Pownce is more widely used for sending files to your friend over the internet. Files such as music, photos, messages, links, events, [...]

YouTorrent is relatively new to the torrent search engine space, but they have had resoundingly good reviews across the internet.
The premise is simple: YouTorrent is a meta-search engine that indexes torrents from other sites (such as btjunkie, The Pirate Bay), then prioritizes the results based on the number of seeds and peers each torrent has.
As [...]

Ever wondered how Digg works? What technologies have they put to use and how do they handle so many request each and everyday. Well, they have put together a short and concise slideshow to help answer those questions and more. The slideshow is appropriately called, “Technology at Digg”, and here it is:

Sweet!

According to Fortify Software, 11 out of 12 of the most popular Ajax/JS frameworks are vulnerable to javascript hijacking. So apparently every shiney web 2.0 app out there is ripe for the picking!
“Fortify said that the “pervasive and critical vulnerability” is present in 11 of the 12 most popular AJAX frameworks, and therefore [...]

Apollo Alpha Launched
Adobe has launched their Apollo platform finally (in Alpha). Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop RIA’s.
Many basically say Apollo = Flash Player + Acrobat Reader * HTML/JS . A very cool project indeed [...]

Well it’s about time for the yearly Reboot Conference. I just missed last year’s conference, but I have heard such great reviews about it that I had to go this year. If you havn’t heard of Reboot yet, you should definitely check it out, especially if you’re going to be in Europe at [...]

Google has released a Web 2.0 editor. Check it out. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It would be cool if Google used this engine on blogger.
UPDATE:
Nik Cubrilovic of TechCrunch is playing devils advocate with [...]