A new promising service called Artiklz has recently passed the beta testing phase and is now open to the general public. This California based venture has even been nominated for Mashable Open Awards in November last year.

What it does: the service aggregates discussions around various social media sites and allows selective conversational search. Basically with the help of Artiklz search engine web surfers are able to track conversations on any subject on any popular blog platform, forum, social sharing and discussion site. Blog owners get a set of tools to …

Just several days ago Google launched SearchWiki, a service that allows users logged into a Google account to customize search results for their needs. Now Googlers can vote up/down websites, delete and add websites, write notes and reviews of any website they like or dislike.

Google claims that these changes only affect the search results of every individual user, however it also states that the results can be shared with other Wiki users. Here’s what Google Blog says about the feature and its goals:

Xtranormal.com, a Web 2.0 startup from Montreal, Canada, has recently launched their new product. What it does is it brings moviemaking to the masses. With its simple interface, drag and drop animations, pre made scene templates, gestures, and camera moves, anyone familiar with computer can create their own animated movies and upload them to YouTube, Facebook or MySpace.
You should really hurry up before it goes mainstream!

Yesterday Google launched their new Gmail themes which allow every user to customize the layout of his e-mail box. Google team has announced they will provide this new function to all Gmail users within the next couple of days. Now my 4 out of 6 accounts (yes, I have 6 actively used Gmail accounts and an account manager) all have different themes. My favorite one so far is the Ninja theme.

Google has always been known for its constant brand, cleanness, and minimalism, so this step towards the mainstream (read MySpace) …

Many prominent online experts these days recommend Twitter as a progressive marketing tool. Darren Rowse of problogger.net even started a new blog dedicated specifically to Twitter.

I’d never bother posting about this Web 1.7 social networking service if the buzz around it wasn’t getting so ridiculous. I strongly believe that this.. tool does not deserve the attention it is getting.

The concept of Twitter “I can publish, you can’t comment” is in no way progressive. This sort of perverse voyeur masturbation goes back few years into Web 1.0. However back then, the …