While Wolfram Alpha might be the revolution in search for scientific research, Socrata.com might be the revolution in search for publicly-owned data. The site combines data sets from over 200...

I have always found it peculiar why people use Craigslist. Don’t get me wrong — I have used it myself to sell things in the past, but I have consistently found it irritating to post an item and keep it visible long enough without having...

Awesome Rev2′ers, Apologies for the lack of posting lately! I haven't forgotten — my absence is the cause of one reason and one reason only: I've been truly, truly busy working on my new startup, Nincha, which is launching this fall.

There are a lot of inventory and sales management apps out there.  There are also a lot of reservation and booking apps for tracking your appointments and scheduling clients.  So far, it seems, never the twain have met.  Until now. Checkfront.com...

Anyone who’s made plans for a vacation knows what it’s like to sit down with a pencil and paper and begin researching online, either filling your bookmarks or writing down a lot of information so you can compare your results.  Even if you know that...

This site is a comprehensive, centralized lifeflow platform, by their own description.  I would say it’s a social media sharing platform, which is the same thing, but doesn’t sound so “Web 2.0 launchy-mission-statementy.”  It’s based on a relatively...

Collaboration and design modeling sites aren’t anything new.  Since websites began, the need to involve the client in the site design and workflow has been a part of the professional design and development process.  Solutions for this range from very...

So you have the next hottest startup idea burning your idea tree and ready for development.  All you need is a good name for it and a domain to match.  Easy right?  “Not so fast,” your marketing sense tells you.  In order to hit it big on Web 2.0,...