Web 2.0 Invites for July 4th, 2008

New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! EverNote Invites Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platfo… Beer Chief Invites BeerChief is a brand spanking new social networking site, which revolves around beer and you. … Ping.fm Invites Ping.fm [...]

Iranian Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers

The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." Apostasy means the abandonment of a religion. The offici

Google's Street View Challenged in the UK

Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to be a bit more difficult for Google. The Google Maps blog today announced the release of Street View for the Twitter might be going through a rather rough time right now, a lot of developers are still banking on its success. There are already Polymeme is a new memetracker that bills itself as "a polymath's guide to news." Polymeme is the brainchild of Evgeny Morozov who started the project because of his frustration with most current memetrackers and the echo ch

Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth

Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...]

Twitter, Identi.ca and July 4th

First of all, if you’re American, and you’re reading this - I have to ask why? The web is like a ghost town today. There isn’t much going on via Twitter. FriendFeed is unusually slow, and about six or so of our two trillion readers showed up to leave a comment today. It’s July 4! [...]

10+ Blogging Politicians Who Still Don’t Say What They Mean

Place the words “blog” or “social media” and “politician” in the same line, and you almost invariably conjure images of a scandal. Or at least a messy exchange between writer/publisher and politician. Much less often are you likely to consider them a team. Politician bloggers? Turns out those terms are not mutually exclusive. They’re more [...]
Twitter began to fail on a regular basis, many of its users turned to other micro-blogging services to continue on with their 140-character lifestyle. Some returned to Jaiku or Pownce, others starting their own downloadable app since late 2007. But now, as of today, there is a

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Web 2.0 Invites for July 4th, 2008

Iranian Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers

Google's Street View Challenged in the UK

Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth

Twitter, Identi.ca and July 4th

10+ Blogging Politicians Who Still Don’t Say What They Mean