Digg have released their first Firefox 3 extension. The extension comes with a toolbar and a status bar button. The toolbar shows you Digg counts and comments of sites you visit and also includes the ability to digg new sites.

Digg Toolbar

Digg Toolbar

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23 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Blogging, Internet, Malaysia, Web 2.0
Negaraku Digg Style

Negaraku Digg Style

Negaraku the local news aggregator I posted about some time back has gone through it’s evolution cycle and now emerged as a Digg clone.

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15 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Web 2.0

Uptime Party is new web service to monitor your servers and their services. The service went public about 2 weeks back.

Services currently monitored are Web, Ping, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, FTP and SSH. Servers and services are checked every hour(free account) and notification mails are sent out to keep you updated.

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12 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Web 2.0, google
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Lively is Google’s answer to Second Life. An online 3D social network which allows users to interact with each other and their surroundings. Build your avatar, choose and room and you are ready to mingle.

Second Life has been around for a few years now, it’s going to be interesting to see how Lively competes with the big boy.

See Lively in action.

Source: Lively by Google

11 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Web 2.0

downforeveryoneorjustme

How many times have you had a site fail to load for you but work fine for your friends? I’ve had this happen to me numeros times with youtube,flickr,google and many other sites.

Here’s a cool tool by Twitter developer Alex Payne name appropriately downforeveryoneorjustme. The site’s self-explanatory, punch in the URL in fault and your get your answer.

This is a must have tool for me now. What ya think?