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Driving with Technology

Rev2 Team — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:24:43 +0000

You know what it’s like. You are driving through a beautiful area of countryside. Your passengers are all soaking up the wonderful scenery. Every now and then you hear a “Ooh; look at that …” or “Wow, just look at the cloud formation over the hill-tops” but you can’t look because you are engaged in that old juggling trick of driving and map-reading all at the same time. Not to mention the time lost when you first arrived whilst you raised a second mortgage to enable you to buy all the different Ordnance Survey maps that ...

Google acquires cross-platform widget developer LabPixies

Rev2 Team — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:25:57 +0000

This week Google announced on its blogging platform that it has acquired LabPixies, a company that develops lightweight utilities and games for several platforms, including the iPhone, Android and iGoogle, Google’s customisable home page.

Google and Labpixies have been working in collaboration for some time (Labpixies being one of the first developers to create widgets for iGoogle). According to Google’s blog post, Labpixies is joining the Google team because the acquisition will allow both companies to work closer together and allow them to be more innovative. The ...

Caffeine Boosts Google

Rev2 Team — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:15:11 +0000

Caffeine, Google’s most recent algorithm update has been in the works for some time, but is being rolled out over the first part of this year. The biggest change in the Caffeine algorithm is the increased importance of web site load time. Up until now, this has been a point of contention in the SEO community – some argued it was taken into account by search algorithms, while others argued it was not. With the unveiling of Caffeine, we finally have a definitive answer: sites that aren’t optimized to load ...

The Pizza Experts – Prowling For the Good Pie So You Don’t Have To

Rev2 Team — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:02:29 +0000

If you’re idea of great pizza starts with a “D” or has the word “Hut” in it, then you probably don’t need to read any further. On the other hand, if your pizza requires a stone oven, charcoal grill, or something other than a conveyor belt with a heat source, then you’ll be interested in this.

Whether you own the restaurant or you frequent pizza joints, you probably have things you think could improve or are wondering how great your favorite pie really is. Enter thePizzaExperts.com.

Building on the unexpected huge ...

Tweact – Flip Your Tweets

Rev2 Team — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:08 +0000

File this under “that’s nutty awesome.” It’s an extremely simple idea and is probably as old as ASCII itself, but turning plain text upside down has been the stuff of cyber-trickery for all of our modern age. Now, with the latest communication tool being Twitter, comes Tweact.com.

This is one of those things that despite being as old as the byte it’s based on, it never seems to lose its novelty. No matter what, it’s always going to make people look twice at what you’ve sent, even if it’s ...

Play hard, work harder: Facebook and Vois.com Hook up

Rev2 Team — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:29:47 +0000

Freelance nation piggybacks profiles with leading social networking platform

There comes a point in life when you own one too many keys, and may get mistaken for a weighed-down, off-duty custodian minus the mop. The same is growing true of virtual online keys – the dozens of account handles, logins and passwords we repeat, recycle, tweak, and ultimately confuse and forget.

Thankfully, Vois and Facebook have linked together to sync up and streamline their accounts. Facebook members can now use the Facebook Connect utility to hook up with Vois.com (Virtual Outsourcing is Social), the world’s freshest freelance professional marketplace, without cycling through ...

Muxtape Takes A New Direction

Rev2 Team — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:11:55 +0000

Having been down for the better part of a month, Muxtape’s creator, Justin Ouellette, has announced that the service is springing back to life, albeit with an entirely new direction.

In his post, Ouellette chronicles his experience dealing with ambivalent record labels that simultaneously sought to shut him down and broker a business deal, as well as the suspension of his account by Amazon Web Services after receiving a complaint lodged by the RIAA, seemingly operating autonomously of the labels he was in ...

The Richter Scale: A.viary CEO Avi Muchnick on Photoshop Express

Rev2 Team — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:49:08 +0000

Ed. Note: The Richter Scale is a new series on Rev2. Following important announcements, we’ll be interviewing industry experts and featuring excerpts from their commentary on Rev2. We believe the insight of competitors and peers in the industry is essential in evaluating the significance and meaning of events.

Taking a cue from the vast movement of applications to the web, Adobe took a significant step today by announcing Photoshop Express, a free offering for those who “want to store, sort and ...

AOL Acquires Bebo for $850 Million

Rev2 Team — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:43:00 +0000

Bebo, one of the big players in the social networking arena, will be acquired by America Online for $850 million. The company has seen tremendous success in non-US markets, like Ireland, where it is presently the top social network. Its membership of 40 million makes it one of the more prominent sites of the day. It currently ranks at number three in the United States.

The purchase will finally give the struggling America Online a massive new group of users and a new way to push its Web 2.0 agenda. AOL CEO Randy ...

The Rev2 Cabinet: MixerCast

Rev2 Team — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:26:18 +0000

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Online advertising is no joke. Recent estimates peg interactive ad revenues in 2007 at $25.5 billion, a 27% increase over 2006's approximate revenues. The quick moving segment currently makes up approximately 6.1% of the global ad market. An IDC report sees a general pattern that "companies are redistributing advertising dollars from ...