Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Global Grind: Startpage For Hip Hop Gen?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Feeds, Global Grind, Media 2 0, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Homepage

  is a New York-based web 2.0 personalized home page startup that is said to be focused on the "hip hop" generation. Being a "hip hop" listener I was curious to see what this intriguing value proposition was all about. Driven by curiosity, which was said to have killed the cat, I was expecting Global Grind personalized home page to bounce with a

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Personalize Your Photos With Graphita

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Fun, Graphita, Media 2 0, Orli Yakuel, Personalization, Personalized, Photography, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Photos, Web2 0expo, Web2expo

  personalization: "A personalized picture is so much more instantly expressive, allowing people to have a visual voice that can be shared in an instant." Live Studio is open and free and is looking to integrate with leaders in the image hosting and sharing world making it possible to save images directly into accounts

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Facebook Source Code Leak, Porn 2.0, Spock Launches, Personalize Jib Jab, Change of myAOL Heart & Startup Tips

  Published: August 12, 2007, 5:20 pm

  Tags: Aol, Beta, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Digg, Eric Olson, Feed Reader, Feeds, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jib Jab, Media 2 0, Orli Yakuel, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Porn, Profilelinker, Rss, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhat

  Photo of the Week: A couple of Maine Lobstahs! from a surf & turf event I attended on Friday. It doesn't get a whole lot more "summer" than this. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.12.2007 Change of opinion regarding myAOLMatt Harwood came out very against myAOL when the myAOL Sneak Preview video splashed onto pages of TechCrunch in

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• My iTunes Data Widgets Now Sharable

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:56 pm

  Tags: Apple, Feeds, Jiwamusic, Last Fm, Media 2 0, Music, Music Search, Mystrands, One Llama, Pandora, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Riffs, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Syndication, Technologies, Techno

  iTunes has been offering personalized recommendations within the iTunes application for quite sometime and I have found them to be very accurate and helpful. I have often discovered new songs that I like within the recommendations and downloading them quickly for instant gratification. iTunes has started to role out syndication of personalized

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Engagd Attention Platform Launches

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Api, Apml, Attention, Feeds, Mashup, Personalization, Personalized, Product Development, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Resource, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Development, Web Metrics, Web Tech, Att

  Engagd, created by Faraday Media, has launched to offer web developers a toolkit of services for tracking attention data (the things users do on the Web).  Leveraging Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML, Engagd offers a few different Web services empowering users to control their own personal Attention Profiles, and developers to

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Skype Outage, Google Health Coming, Social Money Management, Social Networks In A Box, New AOL Mobile & TECH cocktail Boston Sold Out

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Aol, Blogrovr, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Business, Community, Google, Mapquest, Mobile, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Co

  Photo of the Week: This photo titled WEB 2 OH is an artistic take on a license plate I spotted earlier this week. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.19.2007 Skype Suffers Major Outage Skype goes black for a bit and here some people that benefited from it. First Google Health Is Coming Google Health, codename Weaver , is Google's

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Animoto: Movie Trailer Videos From Photos

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:46 pm

  Tags: Ajax, Animoto, Beta, Fun, Innovation, Media 2 0, New York, Personalization, Personalized, Photography, Picture, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Photos

  Animoto, a New York-based startup, offers an application that generates movie trailer-like videos from your photos. Simply upload or pull in some of your favorite photos, add music and Animoto does the rest. Animoto leverages innovate Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and motion design to add life to your customized photo

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: -2

• New YouTube Video Ads, Google Embeds Maps, PlayboyU & MyNYTimes Launch, the Attention Economy, Microsoft's Tafiti Research Project & Bacn In Your Inbox

  Published: August 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Attention, Business, Community, Communitynext, Conferences, Msn, Microsoft, Nytimes, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Playboy, Playboyu, Search, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tafiti, Technologies, Technology, Trends, Video, Web

  attention. Examples include personalized news, personalized search, alerts and recommendations to buy. New York Times Launches MyYahoo The New York Times took their personalized home page product out of beta. The look and feel is about the same as it was a a year ago when it went into private beta - Think MyYahoo, Pageflakes or

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Moo Stickers Arrive (Literally)

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:29 am

  Tags: Business, Design, Fun, Innovation, Media 2 0, Moo Com, Other Aspects Of Life, Personalization, Personalized, Print 2 0, Shopping, Small Business, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Stickers, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0

  startup, puts an unique and personalized spin on traditional items like business cards and notecards. Moo loves to print as they continue to roll out additional offerings. In mid-July, Moo announced the launch of Moo StickerBooks. Here are some Moo StickerBook details: Stickers are printed on high-quality, scratch-proof vinyl Six stickers

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Do You Need A Hug (Shirt)?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:05 am

  Tags: Business, Cellular, Fashion, Gadgets, Innovation, Personalized, Sms, Science, Shopping, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Virtual Gaming, Virtual World, Web 2 0, Web 3 0, Web Tech, Clothing, Cutecircuit, Design

  CuteCircuit thinks you need a hug as the company has created an innovate shirt called the Hug Shirt. Leveraging Bluetooth technology and SMS text messaging, the Hug Shirt, that lets you send a hug to your fellow hug shirt wearing friends via your mobile phone. Each hug you send is played back like a message. So if you tap on your left shoulder

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• SplashCast's Shiny New Player

  Published: August 30, 2007, 11:04 am

  Tags: Entertainment, Flash, Media 2 0, Personalized, Product Development, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Splashcast, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Photos, Media, Player

  SplashCast Media, a Portland-based media player startup, has launched an update to its exisiting SplashCast media player. SplashCast has added a number of features to the player as it continues to improve the product that launched earlier this year. The new SplashCast features are as follows: Video, Audio, or Text Comments - For any

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Google Phone Details, Dapper Facebook App Maker, Clown Co. Named Hulu, Personalized & Social Search and The Sexual Relationship Database

  Published: September 2, 2007, 10:20 pm

  Tags: Advertising, Business, Dapper, Eric Olson, Facebook, Google, How To, Hulu, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Maya S Mom, Media 2 0, Mobile Wireless, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Search, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technolog

  Photo of the Week: I found this unique view of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC this weekend. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 09.02.2007Sexual Relationship DatabaseA project of World Health Organization Management (W.H.O.M) offers information regarding the sexual histories of individuals, across the world and throughout time. W.H.O.M.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• New AOL Mail Officially Launched

  Published: September 3, 2007, 9:08 pm

  Tags: Aol, Aol Mail, Business, Feed Reader, Feeds, Personalized, Rss, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Email

  I use AOL Mail with my FREE personalized email address on the frankgruber5.com domain. The new AOL Mail has made quite a transformation since its beta launch in March as it continued to add features until it officially launched last week. The new AOL Mail product is very feature rich, Ajax email application with a nice interface. Check out

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: +1

• Use twitterfeed.com To Aggregate Your Facebook Status Updates On Twitter

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:06 pm

  Tags: Aggregator, Blogging Tip, Community, Eric Olson, Feeds, How To, Live Web, Mashup, Media 2 0, Mobile Blogging, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, People Search, Personalized, Rss, Resource, Sms, Social Media, Social Networking, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank

  Though an early Twitter adopter, I found that when Facebook came out with its open application platform which included mobile and web status updates I stopped updating my twitter page as frequently. I just couldn't keep up with updating two places with my status updates. When you also factor in Flickr photo uploads, myAOL 'Mix & Share'

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Geezeo: Social Personal Finance Startup

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:35 am

  Tags: Aggregator, Beta, Business, Cellular, Community, Finance, Geezeo, Mobile, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, Money, Money 2 0, Personalized, Resource, Ruby On Rails, Sms, Small Business, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Co

  Geezeo, a Framingham, Massachusetts based startup, offers a free online social personal finance application that makes it easy to keep track of your money from anywhere. With Geezeo you can simply aggregate all your accounts into one place and check account balances online or with your mobile phone. Co-founded by Peter Glyman and Shawn Ward,

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0