Search 2.0?

Everything goes 2.0. What's next?
According to Read/WriteWeb, the next 2.0 is a "Search".

This article shows the results of the concepts to beat Google. The top idea of the next generation search is the Artificial Intelligence. Yet there's no true AI search engine on market yet, the closest possible so far is Hakia that I already liked it because more knowledge and news based results, mainly recently posted blog entries, are listed as the search results, and they are quite different from that of Google.

Here's a list of other suggestions:

1. Artificial Intelligence (e.g. Hakia, Powerset)
2. People Powered Search (e.g. del.icio.us, ChaCha)
3. Vertical Search (e.g. SimplyHired, Technorati)
4. Personalized Search (e.g. Collarity)
5. Clustering (e.g. Clusty, SearchMash)
6. Social Search (e.g. Eurekster, Rollyo)
7. Visualization (e.g. Quintura and Kartoo)
8. Previews (Snap, Live Image Search)

interesting.

FashMatch.com - Social Fashion Styling

Fine, match, and get!
FishMatch is an another brand-new social networking site, specializing for fashion! The site lets you to choose items like tops, bottoms, and shoes, by brand (including Juicy Couture!), style and fit. Once you find great outfit all togeter, you publish the match to public. What makes this site social about is that everybody can view your match and rate it. The screenshot here shows the site UI, with my match - Juicy Couture top and necklace, Blue Cult denim, with Marc Jacobs pumps. You can also purchase the outfit from the site. (The grand total of the style is $3244, by the way!)

Honestly, I love the whole idea about this site but I'd say the UI is not designed really well, and causes pretty bad usability and user experiences. It took me a while to figure out how to work around, and actually spent a long time to create just one match. The each process is painfully slow because the page needs to load each time you make each request. This can be improved if they implement JavaScript/Ajax efficiently. But hey, it is still in Beta! I hope to see some great improvement for next release!

Mobile 2.0 - RSS Feeds for Mobile

Nokia has announced the launch of WidSets is a mobile widget platform available for Java MIDP 2.0 phones and is manufacturer and browser independent (that works non-Nokia phones too). Like widgets on a computer, you can access to information from RSS feeds (news, blogs, flickr, etc). This is like for the mobile what Netvibes is for the browser. Cool.

O'Reilly Reader: Mobile 2.0 Nokia Launches WidSets

Crafty Girls Go Web2.0

I've been a crafty girl ever since I was little. I have made a lot of dolls, stuffed animals, beaded necklaces, hats etc, and I was even a leader of a craft club in my grade school era. When I was unemployed in 2001, I bought tons of inredients and equipments to make soaps, and I spent my free time (= when I was not browseing Dice or Monster) for soapmaking. Since I am such a geek, I even created some online calculatior with girly interface for soapmakers to compute the amount of NaOH.

Therefore, I am happy to find this social networking site for crafty people like me - designestolove.com. Here, you can showcase your designs, share your opinions and ideas and meet people with the same interests. This site provides RSS feeds so you can always get informed with latest additions, but some useful features such as serach or tagging are missing. Since this is still in beta, I hope they will add in future.

DNC Launches PartyBuilder

The Democratic National Committee launched PartyBuilder, an social networking site for civic action to empower Democrats to get more involved in the November elections.

Social Shopping List

It seems like an another big wave of Internet trend has been around (but hope this is not like the late-90s dot-com crap), the social-networking sites have been massive success (though I hate MySpace), "tagging" has been everywhere, and I started hearing news about new startups all the time.

Today, I've read about this "a collaborative shopping community" called Stylehive, whose office is located here in San Francisco. Though this site has so much more to be improved, the idea and look-and-feel of the site are something I can relate.

Browsing the tags like manolo makes me want them really want them. Bad for me, but this fits perfectly as we live in the material world.

(This blog entry was originally written on June 16 for my other blog and copied it on Blogger on Sept.27)

Yahoo! Tech

Yahoo! has launched a new tech products site, called Yahoo! Tech. This site is just like CNet but this utilizes fancy Web2.0 technologies like Flash and Ajax-enabled dynamic components, with nicely designed UI that makes user-experience painless.

What makes this site so Web2.0 is that the serach filter and sort functions that allows users to select manifactures/brands, price ranges, and other choices with slider, and allows to rate the products they own.

I'd say this site is one of the best demo to show off what they are doing with Yahoo! Design Patter Library.

(This blog entry was originally written on May 3 for my other blog and copied it on Blogger on Sept.26)