The Internet is becoming faster and more topical: WebTV in real time ( “Live Broadcasting”) is the magic word. On zaplive.tv. users can run their own free webtv station. They can stream their live broadcasts via the internet for viewers all over the world. zaplive.tv, a new multilingual internet platform for live broadcasting, has selected Dutch hosting provider LeaseWeb because of the size of LeaseWeb’s international hosting network.

Users are Zaplive can choose from over 20 different channels - such as cars and transport, sports, church or nightlife.While, the producers (ie, those who broadcast the film) have the opportunity to own TV stations to produce the programs every day in 24 hours in their own shows. zaplive.tv is not only live but also interactive. Users embed their broadcasts to arbitary external sites. Using live chat and voting, the users stay in touch everywhere and at any time and build a viral community that influences the quality of the specific broadcasts at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

Stinto helps you create temporary disposable Chat Rooms with a click of a button.This way, you can have private conversations in an environment that belongs only to you and your acquaintances. Or, if you have an urgent need to have a chat, Stinto can get this service.

No registration is required, click on create button and get your unique chat URL like http://www.stinto.net/1048c. Pass this URL to people, who should enter the chat. This URL (chatroom) is deleted after few hours of inactivity. You can click on ‘options’ button to give name to your chat room. It also allows you to configure time period for which chat room should stay live with options of 6hrs, 12hrs and 24hrs. The Aachen founders hope that stinto soon will be used by more people . Therefore, the project was built directly in multilingual and especially in German, in addition it hase been in English, French and Spanish. “In the coming weeks we shall start a Turkish and Polish version of” betraying Lutz Keller and Luke Jahn.

Chrome, Google’s take on how a web browser should look, feel, and function. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.Google Chrome version 0.4.154.25 has been released. You will automatically get updated in the next few days.

The most obvious of these is that the address bar is now ‘inside’ the tabs. Given that the address is different for each tab this makes sense and does actually make the already clean interface look even more efficient.  The browser itself is based on the Webkit software used by Apple’s Safari browser. The Javascript engine (used for Ajax-based web 2.0 websites such as Google’s own Googlemail) is all new. A major advance is that each tab can run Javascript without having to wait for the others to finish. Read the rest of this entry »

Do think you’re better than Tiger Woods? Then try a game of golf over at World Golf Tour (WGT). WGT is a multiplayer flash game that you play in your browser (IE or Firefox). It also has a social network site that goes along with the game that keeps track of your scores and standings in tournaments. The mission of WGT is to make golf accessible and affordable for all.

This beta includes their new course, the beautiful Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. Up to four players can tee off against one another and you can even chat while doing so thanks to the game’s multi-player capability and in-game chat functionality. You can choose between tee-to-green play or closest-to-the-pin competition and compete in compete in tournaments to win prizes ranging from thousands of dollars to luxurious golf vacations. Read the rest of this entry »

TextFlow provides a unique, and dead easy, way to not only work together but to manage the revisions on your business documents. Instead of going the real-time route like Zoho and Google Docs, the service opts to let a master editor corral multiple versions of the same Microsoft Word document inside of one file.

It’s basically a Flash-based document collaboration editor that enables you to import multiple versions of a document and quickly identify any changes and reconcile these differences into one final version. This is particularly helpful when you have multiple editors reviewing a single document in which they have made their own changes and there is now multiple versions. Read the rest of this entry »