web 2.0 announcer blog

Another great site has been added to our video section, grouper.

Grouper is a very nice web site for video content, and one of the few that we could use to get safe for work content.

Hope you will like the new videos

As our friends asked us, we’ve added iFilm’s videos to web 2.0 announcer’s video section.

iFilm is not using tags to categorize their videos, so we automatically fill those videos under the Video and iFilm tags.

Soon more to come, so stay tuned

We’ve just made a small update to the application regarding the comments on each story.  As you can see in some stories (right now only on Digg stories) there is a image which is a link to the comments of the source web site.

Also the Digg stories now are linking to the actual web sites, not the Digg’s comment page. Soon we are going to add  “comment” related links from other sources too.
Hope you like this new feature

This week users of various social bookmarking web sites actually voted for the best videos in our web site.

The videos that got the most attention were the above :

Awesome Folding Chair : This guy has invented an awesome portable folding chair. Who needs a bench?
Robot Arm Ride : This looks awesome. These guys hook up a chair to a robotic arm at their work place and take turns spinning each other around the room.
We would like to thank all of those people who choose us as their #1 video web site choice

As our site gains more and more attention we thought to add something that people will really like

This is our new feature which can’t be something else besides video.

The video module is totally different than the rest of the site, has it’s own tag system and it is still under development.

For the moment we are displaying the top videos from youTube but soon we will add more sources.

As the video project is still in development phase, there may be bugs so please inform us if you find something strange.

Today I noticed that web 2.0 announcer’s plugin for wordpress is voted #1 at the WPPlugins web site.

We would like to thank you for this, and we really glad that people likes our work

Today we finished with the first state of development of our user module. This new feauture allows you to select your own favorite tags and surf the news that filled under them.

The next step is the addition of a “Save” feauture which will help you keep the stories you like most, for future reference.

If you have any questions, or want to report a bug please feel free to leave a comment here

New Website Brings Top News in One Place.

(PRLEAP.COM) Thessaloniki, Greece September 26, 2006 – HumanWorks, owner of the award-winning
Webdigity Webmaster Forum is pleased to announce the launch of their
newest website Web 2.0 Announcer. Web 2.0 Announcer is a news resource
that provides a list of the most current and talked about news stories
on the web.

The Internet has made it easier than ever to share information.
Unfortunately, newsworthy information is scattered across an
ever-growing multitude of websites. A quick search on Google for the
word news yielded close to 11 billion results. Web 2.0 Announcer, with
its uncluttered and no-frills layout, provides site visitors quick
access to complete news stories from a variety of sources across the
Internet.

“Our original intention when creating this site was to make a resource
for bloggers, but in the short time since we’ve launched it has become
much more than that,” states Nikolas Papanotas, founder of HumanWorks
and lead programmer. “The site is such a time-saving resource that
many visitors are returning daily and using the site as their primary
news source.”

Web 2.0 Announcer provides a list of the top stories from major social
and technology news outlets on the web. By combining news stories from
such highly-regarded sites as C-Net News and many of the wildly
successful social driven websites like Digg, YahooMyWeb and Furl; Web
2.0 Announcer provides only the most current and talked about news
stories on the World Wide Web. The site already gathers news stories
from a dozen such sources and will be continually adding more.

Today I realized that the Socializer module for google, is the top rated module at the google modules web site.

I would like to thank everybody who voted for our module, and I am really glad that you like it so much

Today we added one more feed to the sources, listible.

As listible is not updating their top lists in a regular basis, we added a special tag for those who want to browse the top lists from listible, listible.