Podcast #8 - Web 2.0 Tools, News, Music, Blogs

Web 2.0 - read and write as opposed to read-only.... based around community sharing and programs where adding another user actually makes the product more valuable. Almost all free stuff, too!

Technorati - great for filtering through the different blogs
Flickr/Photobucket/Snapfish - photo sharing sites that enable us to share photos, sort through them, tag then, and keep track of them
YouTube/Google Video - massive collection of videos spanning a plethora of topics and genres
Last.fm / Pandora / Yahoo Music / Hype Machine - cool audio sharing and ranking sites.
Google Purchasing Jotspot.com, a wiki publishing company
A9.com - built by Amazon - can search through books that are out there

Digg.com - cool tool that enables users to rank news stories, focusing on technology news, so 'coolest' stories rise to the top, making the news story's publishers famous for a day...

Interesting, although abusive take on rigging the digg process - sucks for digg founders to have the thing's results so poorly influenced, but they'll have to figure out smarter, better ways to control their network to maintain its popularity

NYTimes piece on all of the tech innovation at google and where they might be headed. It mentions the radio ad

Top Social Bookmarking Tools:
Del.icio.us - search through the sites you've bookmarked, based on the way you've tagged them. Plus, you can search through other people's tagged pages
Diigo - you can highlight segments of a page, as well as doing everything that del.icio.us
Youno - sharing your bookmarks from different computers, but gives you an instant recommendation for another site, based on the one you're visiting

1-800-Free-411 - Awesome new business doing free 411, can dial the number, get free 411 service, and then you hear an ad right before the service is delivered. Awesome roll of advertisers as well, including ingenio, vonage, 1800 flowers, etc. Pretty good writeup on the venture money they've raised, here at TechCrunch