I found Widgetbox through a Google search for cool websites.  Cool it is.  Widgetbox allows anyone, even non-programmers like myself, to easily transform content ideas into engaging, dynamic content that can be used on almost any website.  Many widgets are already created for access, but you can also create your own.  I’m still just playing [...]

Here is something I think will (eventually) become a tool for large online stores: 3 dimensional room decorating and design. As the technology continues to become both better and cheaper, setting up 3D room design applications online for companies like Ikea, Home Depot, or Lowe’s will become big business. This virtual tool [...]

I was never much of a youtube user until I came to college. Now it seems like friends of mine put stuff up there and send me links all the time. It’s incredibly fun to be able to do this – and is also ridiculously easy. Below is a particularly fine example. [...]

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is free and openly edited by anyone and everyone, is easily my favorite site.  The amount of knowledge it contains is unbelievable.  The best part is that it’s all (usually) true!  While most professors cringe at the idea of students using the site in anything even fractionally academic, the site [...]

I’ve been trying out a new site called Protopage, a personalized webpage which brings your favorites to you.  It is an easily customizable personal page, with a distinctive Web 2.0 feel, where you dictate what you want to see.  From personalized color schemes and images to your favorite news feeds, sports headlines, and technology tidbits, [...]

By now I’m sure many of you have heard about the Apple iPad, a tablet computer revealed last week at Apple’s press release. So far the responses I have heard from friends have been rather mixed; I’ve heard quips about the name, criticisms about the lack of Flash support, and confusion about the overall purpose [...]

Are you in the market for a new house? I recommend using Dwellicious to keep track of all the real estate that you like.  Dwellicious is ann easy to use tool that bookmarks all of your favorite properties on their website.  It will dynamically change if there are changes on the main website.  It has [...]

ForceDo is a unique web 2.0 website that keeps track of your tasks.  Sure, there are a lot of websites and tools that keep track of things todo, but ForceDo starts a timer and produces sounds that encourage you throughout your task.  This tool is useful for people who spend a lot of time on [...]

At 14 years old, Ashley Qualls created a site to show-off her design work. “I was the dorky girl who was into HTML,” she said in an interview with Fast Company magaine. It attracted zero interest beyond her circle of friends until she figured out how to customize MySpace pages. So many classmates asked her [...]

Squidoo allows anyone to create a lens about anything that builds on other web 2.0 tools.  People are using Squidoo to improve their internet marketing.  Ron Passfield gives 6 reasons that you should use Squidoo for internet marketing: Establish yourself as an expert Generate Traffic to your website or blog Promote your articles Achieve search engine optimization at no [...]