Timing is everything! Early last week I sat down to work on my “work assignment” and put together the Boston Video Game Round-Up. What I did not know was that it would have been great timing to finish and post it last week to coincide with the mid-week Hiawatha Bray article on Boston .com covering the Boston video game space.

StyleFeeder, an online social shopping site based in Cambridge, launched their new StyleFeeder Personal Shopper today. Available in beta at www.stylefeeder.com, this FireFox and IE plug-in (very soon to be released) brings much of the functionality of this local social shopping service right into a nice downloadable browser application. The sidebar (explorer bar in IE) [...]

In last weeks round-up on the Boston online video space, I started off by stating that the video sector was one area where Boston was gaining significant traction. However, there is yet another sector that Boston has started to capture some serious “street cred” – Mobile.

Boston has a new face of online gaming and virtual worlds and I should have included in my recent article about Second Life. Hiawatha Bray’s article posted on Boston.com today provided more information about the much anticipated game by Curt Schilling’s online game company 38studios, formerly known as Green Monster Games (Maynard, MA).

If you are one the people who believe that the Boston area is not exactly the hot bed of Web 2.0 activity, there is one area that the hub has developed well – online video. Last year, everything was about YouTube and other consumer generated plays. At the same time, some New England area companies [...]

I was reading a recent top article on Boston.com about the plans for the City of Boston and Emerson College to bring the hub into the Second Life universe and it made me think about how far will these virtual world technologies will take us and where will real world Boston fit in? Here is [...]

The Massachusetts online video bubble continued to grow today with the relaunch of Miro (formerly The Democracy Player). The Miro service is an open-source desktop software that combines video search, channel guide and media player into one slick desktop application. It also has a BitTorrent and podcast client as well. The free video aggregation service [...]

It was an excellent turnout at the webinno13 event last night at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge.