Directory

The Directory is a categorized list of most of the articles on FranticIndustries. It is an archive and a knowledge base, useful to anyone interested in web companies, products and services. New stories are on top.

Advertising

* Zooppa - advertising goes social

Answers

* Jabbits - another video Q&A site
* Big guide to getting your questions answered online
* Google kills Google Answers

Audio

* Bebo music download service
* 10 radio stations you probably won’t listen to any more

Blogging

* Interview at Bloggst
* So, why shouldn’t TechCrunch be having a CEO?
* Spotplex - another site wrongly accused of being the new Digg
* MyBlogLog needs stricter rules
* Technorati re-launches WTF
* Wordpress 2.1 is out
* The CMS update: Drupal 5.0, Wordpress 2.0.7
* DiggClick doesn’t work with Wordpress 2.0.6?
* Can Technorati continue to be an authority on blogs?
* When blogging becomes business - Techcrunch UK on hold
* One third of imprisoned journalists are bloggers
* TCritic - Best blog I’ve seen in a long time

Bookmarking

* del.icio.us updates Firefox extension - not quite there yet

Business

* Tom’s Hardware sold; rumored price $15 - $20 million
* Startups, learn how to get a good VC deal
* Are you creating a product or launching a business?
* 7 most crowded spaces for your new web startup
* One step less can make or break you
* Geni raises $10 million in funding
* 15 free services worth paying for - readers’ choice
* Services you’d keep using if they weren’t free
* Google opens the acquisition season with AdScape
* How to make your users hate you - the tale of a Fish
* Services you’d keep using if they weren’t free
* Every Google and Yahoo acquisition - the big list
* Digg raises additional $8.5 million

Calendars

Censorship

* YouTube blocked in a new country each week. This week: Thailand!
* YouTube lives in Turkey again
* YouTube blocked in Thailand again; is it their own fault?
* Turkey blocks YouTube
* One third of imprisoned journalists are bloggers
* No YouTube for Iran

Chat

Citizen journalism

* Yahoo and Reuters want you to be the witness

Collaboration

* Bubbl.us, Thinkature, Wridea - 3 ways to brainstorm online

Copyright

* Pligg gets a bizarre cease & desist letter
* Viacom sues Google and YouTube for $1 billion
* AllOfMP3 teaches RIAA about geography
* 1.65 trillion dollars can buy you a lot of songs
* In which countries were people sued for p2p music sharing?
* Google steals design from Yahoo; apologizes

DRM

* Confirmed: EMI and Apple will sell DRM-free music
* The end of the DRM era?
* 15 key articles on DRM
* The solution to the DRM problem
* Big record labels plan to drop DRM?
* DRM is about control and greed
* Can DRM ever be good?
* HD-DVD encryption cracked?
* RIAA drops case against mom; sues her kids
* TiVo DRM cracked

E-mail

* Yahoo! strikes back in mailbox-size war
* Goodbye email, it’s time to move on
* Think you’ve got mail? If you use Gmail, think again.
* Gmail introduces Mail Fetcher; still far from perfect

File format conversion

* 5 online file format converters reviewed
* Zamzar - convert any document into another format

File storage

* DropBoks - simplest online file storage yet.

FranticIndustries

* Looking back: Cool lists you might have missed
* New features at FranticIndustries
* Welcome to the new home of franticindustries

Gaming

* Kongregate and Cafe.com - two takes on social gaming

IT trends

* Microsoft is dead, Paul Graham says
* Are pyramid schemes back in fashion?
* Why I’m not going to review Vista
* Why power users will hate Vista
* Vista will create over 100.000 new jobs in IT, says IDC

Jobs

* Find jobs with Media Temple’s Krop

Maps

* Find appartments for rent with MapsKrieg
* Google Earth 4 is out

Mashups

* Find appartments for rent with MapsKrieg
* Create your own mashups with Google’s MyMaps
* All Twitter tools and mashups in one place
* Twittervision - find out where they do whatever they’re doing!
* Big memetracker roundup - 8 news aggregators reviewed
* 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes
* Yahoo! launches mashup making tool - Yahoo! Pipes
* Tailrank, Megite add video search; Alexa still sucks

Memes

* Big memetracker roundup - 8 news aggregators reviewed
* Josiane or how to make a perfect meme

Messaging

* All Twitter tools and mashups in one place
* Latest Twitter trend - fake identities

Multimedia

News

Notes

* Zpeech lets you make notes for the web

Office applications

* 37signals launches Highrise, a very personal task manager
* Google Apps Premier Edition now available
* Gmail now public; Google will charge businesses for web apps

Personalized portals

* My.Yahoo! relaunches; gets shiny new outfit
* My.Netscape reviewed: nothing to see here, move along
* Netvibes launches new version, named Coriander
* 13 most useful Netvibes modules
* 10 reasons why Netvibes is better than Google Homepage

Piracy

* Privacy by anonymity
* Microsoft uses a cartoon to fight piracy
* Why pirated software is better than bought software

Photos

* Flickr adds “send to a friend� feature
* BritePic - a new way to display images
* Adobe Photoshop going online
* Microsoft’s Photosynth reviewed
* So long, Photoshop - 6 online image editors reviewed

Project Management

* Goplan - online project management

Remote access

* Techinline - web based remote desktop

RSS & Syndication

* Read all your favorite comics in one place
* Read Google Reader on your Wii (if you really must)
The Amazon monster RSS feed
* BlogRovr brings you news whether you like it or not
* Top 40 sites according to FeedBurner stats
* Big memetracker roundup - 8 news aggregators reviewed
* 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes
* Yahoo! launches mashup making tool - Yahoo! Pipes
* 5 RSS mixers worth trying
* Online news reader Daily Rotation gets new features
* Sony equips their TVs with RSS support
* The RSS cookbook - 10 advanced RSS tricks
* Daylife - another news aggregator
* Google Reader adds statistics
* Big memetracker roundup - 8 news aggregators reviewed
* Tailrank, Megite add video search; Alexa still sucks
* Microsoft patents RSS; US patent system sucks

RSVC (Read Submit Vote Comment (Digg-like))

* Netscape shuts down the competitive element
* Subvert and Profit - another attempt at gaming Digg
* Ballhype - vote on your favorite sports story
* Killer Startups - wisdom of crowds applied to startups
* Reddit learns about the importance of editors the hard way
* Digg’s million users raise many questions
* Digg’s bury feature dismantled
* Digg unbans several banned domains
* The week when Digg(ing) became mainstream
* Why Kuro5hin is wrong on Digg
* Microsoft jumps on the voting bandwagon
* Yahoo! suggestion boards offer Digg-style voting
* The Torrent Review - a Digg for torrents
* Slashdot is preparing a Digg-like voting system
* Digg further reduces the influence of top diggers
* Top diggers list reappears on an independent site
* Another failed try to bribe the top diggers
* DoTheRightThing - The community that does the right thing
* The consequences of Digg’s top user list removal
* 10 Pligg sites worth visiting
* Crispynews goes enterprise, kills off the community
* The Digg story life cycle
* Template Pligg startup = bad idea
* The Digg comment algorithm
* The Digg dilemma - submit yourself, or leave it to others
* Digg raises additional $8.5 million
* The future of Digg-like websites
* Wikio.com (.es, .de) launches; first impressions
* Paying Diggers to Digg? Why not just give them traffic!
* The top 5 social news sites roundup
* CrispyNews - create your own little Digg
* Top 10 features Digg doesn’t have

Search

* Search visually with Kartoo
* Younanimous - a search engine that knows what you like
* WikiSeek’s community search - a slightly bizzare idea
* Visual search engine Quintura gets a new interface
* Is Google search going to meet the fate of IE?
* AOL kills Singingfish, annoys users
* Google search now compares local businesses
* Google is the new http://
* Podzinger - search YouTube for words actually said
* The future of ‘European Google’ uncertain
* Google releases Patent search beta
* Google Toolbar 3 beta for Firefox released

* Britney tops Yahoo search results for 2006

Security & privacy

* Digg will support OpenID
* Save your passwords with PassPack
* Internet Explorer safe for only 72 days in 2006.

Shopping

* Summize - a new perspective on online shopping

Social content

* Netscape shuts down the competitive element
* Subvert and Profit - another attempt at gaming Digg
* Ballhype - vote on your favorite sports story
* Former Wikipedia fellow starts fresh with Citizendium
* Killer Startups - wisdom of crowds applied to startups
* Reddit learns about the importance of editors the hard way
* Digg’s bury feature dismantled
* Digg unbans several banned domains
* Microsoft jumps on the voting bandwagon
* Yahoo! suggestion boards offer Digg-style voting
* The Torrent Review - a Digg for torrents
* Slashdot is preparing a Digg-like voting system
* Penguin (also) starts a collaborative book project
* The consequences of Digg’s top user list removal
* Another failed try to bribe the top diggers
* Technorati re-launches WTF
* DoTheRightThing - The community that does the right thing
* Crispynews goes enterprise, kills off the community
* The endless, senseless, interactive book
* The Digg story life cycle
* The Digg comment algorithm
* The Digg dilemma - submit yourself, or leave it to others
* 10 Pligg sites worth visiting
* Digg raises additional $8.5 million
* Wikio.com (.es, .de) launches; first impressions
* The future of Digg-like websites
* New York Times wants you to Digg it
* Paying Diggers to Digg? Why not just give them traffic!
* The top 5 social news sites roundup
* Yahoo and Reuters want you to be the witness
* CrispyNews - create your own little Digg
* Atlarge tells you which airports are connected

Social media

* Reddit learns about the importance of editors the hard way
* USAToday - a brave new mess
* Media 2.0 Workgroup launches

Social networking

* Mozilla Coop - social networking within Firefox
* Amsterdam sold for measly $50.000
* Ning v2 reviewed - create your own social network
* MyBlogLog needs stricter rules
* Profilactic, the digital life aggregator, reviewed
* Geni - create your family tree
* Mix-mas - the start of instant Web 2.0 apps?
* CrispyNews - create your own little Digg
* Need something? Find it on Ewidi

Software

* Real features new to Windows Vista

Statistics

* Swivel goes live, data gets compared furiously

Tips

* Find MP3s with Google - does this make Google liable to a lawsuit, too?
* Quick tip: multiple Google Talk accounts in Miranda
* 13 most useful Netvibes modules
* Quick tip: change the number of columns in Netvibes
* Ctrl+Shift+T - very useful new feature in Firefox

User interface

* ZenZui - a zooming interface for mobiles

Video

* Thailand gives up on suing YouTube

* Last.FM starts a video service
* TestTube lets you test YouTube’s new features
* Jabbits - another video Q&A site
* YouTube blocked in Thailand again; is it their own fault?
* Viacom sues Google and YouTube for $1 billion
* Delutube - watch videos removed from YouTube
* YouTube blocked in a new country each week. This week: Thailand!
* YouTube lives in Turkey again
* Turkey blocks YouTube
* BitTorrent launches digital media store; the world says ‘meh’
* Quick thoughts on Soapbox
* YouTube goes mobile, hands over user info
* YouTube adds “Digg this� button
* Feedbeat - Create a joint Youtube and Google Video playlist
* Joost beta reviewed - TV just got a little smarter
* The Venice Project - give us the beta, now!
* Free Movies Cinema - Youtube with a brain?
* People watch less TV because of online video

Web 2.0

* The ever-eluding Web 2.0 definition
* Is web catching up with the desktop?
* God 2.0
* Web 2.0 applications vs. desktop applications
* Go2Web20 gets an upgrade
* Techcrunch launches CrunchForums
* Web 2.0 applications vs. desktop applications
* Services you’d keep using if they weren’t free
* What are Google’s true intentions?
* Hey, I’m Time’s person of the year. Wanna bet?
* 10 Web 2.0 predictions for 2007.

Web browsers

* del.icio.us updates Firefox extension - not quite there yet
* Mozilla Coop - social networking within Firefox
* 7 Firefox features that I missed the most

Web design

* 10 minimalist blogs worth checking out
* 10 old, yet (almost) great web designs
* Template Pligg startup = bad idea
* Digg redesigns; finally puts header to good use
* Microsoft homepage gets a redesign
* Google steals design from Yahoo; apologizes
* Websites of 10 big companies - from 1996!

Web development & programming

* Offline access to web apps - the real benefits
* Adobe Apollo officially launched

WebOS

* Xcerion, new WebOS from Sweden, launching soon
* The future of operating systems
* WebOS, WebTOP, OOS - how should we call the online OS?
* WebOS, WebTOP, OOS - how should we call the online OS?
* Big WebOS roundup - 10 online operating systems reviewed

Website optimization

* 5 great ways to ask for a donation

Web traffic

* TechCrunch effect - the scourge of web startups?
* Is spam a good traffic metric?
* Tailrank, Megite add video search; Alexa still sucks
* Why Alexa sucks
* How many hits does the Internet get?

Widgets

* Vista’s Gadgets - Microsoft’s poor naming decision

Wiki

* Former Wikipedia fellow starts fresh with Citizendium

WWW

* Tom’s Hardware sold; rumored price $15 - $20 million
* The April Fools jokes roundup
* No links = no web
* Pixelotto not doing that well after all?
* The absolutely, positively longest domain name in the world