I stumbled across piqniq.jp in a Google Adsense banner on my own site. Google apparently is capable once in a blue moon of delivering ads relevant to the blog’s “Long Tail of Web2.0” theme. I don’t have much to say about this site except how commonplace social networking features have become. Piqniq [...]

Whether MojoPages can challenge or supplant Yelp is another question. (“Complement” seems to be answer. Read on.) Yelp has done a great job of building a community of credible reviewers. Though Yelp’s very name is suggestive of a relationship to the yellow pages, Yelp positions itself effectively as “Real People. [...]

In my continuing effort to scour the globe for new internet ventures, I present you SubMate, a pal finding service for commuters. Submate is still under wraps and apparently based in NYC though they have ambitions of offering the service in “9 countries and 20 cities.” One of the co-founders is Laurent Kretz. [...]

Trillian, if you don’t know, is an instant messaging client that works with the AOL AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, and IRC chat systems, any or all at the same time, channeling your chat activity through one interface. Spokeo, founded by three Stanford guys, applies the same concept of tributary merging to the proliferation of [...]