Emily Chang - Blog

Reactee has mashed-up it's services with Twitter to create a great hybrid of two services that I already like independently. Reactee has created an easy way to make your own t-shirts customized with your Twitter username. Read more...

I added Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) to eHub back in December. The free service provides a quick visual preview of a site whenever you roll over an external link. This lets you get a quick glimpse of the sites I'm linking to. In eHub, this also makes it easier to browse the list and associate a name with the visual recognition of the site preview. Read more...

Yahoo gave a demo to a small group tonight at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Brad Garlinghouse, Vice President of Communications, Community and Front Door (pictured left) and other members of his team. Read more...

CommunityWalk, the web 2.0 mapping community, has launched the new Explore feature. The Explore page lets you zoom into the map, select a category, or use a live search to find different public maps on CommunityWalk. You can even enter a search for a specific area of the map, or right click to zoom out. As you click through locations, photos are pulled up below the map dynamically. Read more...

It's with a great deal of personal satisfaction that I write this post. About the time I started this blog, my company started designing the Stylehive, a collaborative shopping community. It's a place where contributors share and discover the hottest stores, styles, designers, trends, and must have products. Read more...

I'm always interested in new blog networks. I've been fortunate to enjoy a healthy increasing readership and acceptance in several online networks. Most of these, however, push content out to other niche sites in the blogosphere. BlogBurst is a new product by Pluck, a company based in Austin co-founded in 2003 by Dave Panos and Andrew Busey. BlogBurst is an opt-in wire service for bloggers and publishers with a different approach. Read more...

These days, like many of you, my life is filled with electronic communications, whether that's email, chat, collaborative project management, mobile messages, or other data sources. I've written about this in the past. Read more...

I received email from Marc Guldimann tonight from Spongecell, an "absorbful calendar." They're having a launch party here in San Francisco at Ritual Roasters on Wednesday and we'll be stopping by. Read more...

Earlier today, I went to the E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is "a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms." Read more...

Two new web apps caught my eye this evening as I scanned my email: Nuvvo and Newsvine. The two sites are very different in their concept and functionality, but both share the same purpose - to enable individuals (content creators, writers, news buffs, teachers, amateurs, experts, you) to reach a larger niche audience, and to make money from it. Read more...

SuprGlu "gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place." My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin tonight and was pleasantly surprised by both the ease of use and the sense of personal discovery. Read more...

I had gotten an email from the Netvibes team to take a look at the site last week and signed up and took a quick spin around. I finally had a chance to explore further tonight. The buzz around Netvibes is well warranted.¹ In previous posts, I'd been writing about the desire for tools that make it easier to navigate our variety of information sources. Netvibes provides a fast and efficient interface from which to do just that. Read more...

Continuing my search for new mapping technologies, I came across gVisit, another project developed using the Google map API. gVisit allows you to track visitors to your website using Google Maps. Read more...

Twenty-four hours ago, I was playing with IndyJunior and wishing I could add more real-time data to the map or share the data with someone in more ways than just a hover with text information (date, name, note). Ask the Internet and you shall receive. Read more...