MySpace, Facebook, Bebo... they're all about bringing people together. Spreading love and understanding. Allowing complete strangers to perv at each others' photos before hooking up via webcam to discover that neither is as buff as their camera angles made out. It's a beautiful thing.

But some people take this further and go on real-life dates after meeting on social networking sites. Date: Unknown celebrates their stories. It's an online reality TV show that documents the first dates of people who hooked up online. Complete with comedy sound effects to signify the car-crash moments.

It's fab: Blind Date for the Web 2.0 generation. I'm surprised Cilla hasn't muscled in yet.

Date: Unknown website (via KillerStartups)

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The perfect science lecture? It should be delivered by an absent-minded boffin in a jumper that hasn't been washed for seventeen years, must require covering a huge whiteboard in indecipherable equations, and needs to involve several explosions, of which at least one must be unplanned.

Sadly, don't think there are many of those on SciTalks, a new site gathering over 1,000 video recordings of science lectures from around the world. The actual content is hosted elsewhere – YouTube, for example – so it's more of a directory service.

However, Web 2.0 features include the ability to set up your own channel of videos, submit your own links, and even upload your own videos. And there's more Chomsky lectures than you can shake a capitalist stick at.

SciTalks website

Recent Web 2.0 Startups of the Day
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: RemoTV
Web 2.0 Startup of the Day: Tapatap

Sling Media isn't the only placeshifting company in town, y'know. There are several firms looking to make money out of letting you stream your music, video and photos from your PC to your mobile phone. RemoTV is the latest one to go live. Well, go live in a beta stylee, anyway.

The service involves installing an application on your PC, importing your media to it, and then creating 'channels' from it, which can then be streamed to your mobile phone over the network. However, the innovation is being able to share these channels with your friends – although heaven knows that the music industry will make of it.

RemoTV website

Recent Web 2.0 Startups Of The Day
Tapatap

Tapatap is a US-based startup with an interesting spin on the social networking phenomenon. The best way I can describe it is like Flickr meets Am I Hot Or Not?, since the idea is to create 'contests' where you and friends upload photos and then rate each others' to decide which is best.

Tapatap also runs its own contests, often sponsored by companies who offer prizes to the best-rated photos. It's got a decidedly US college student focus (suggesting "Who's the hottest girl in our dorm?" as a possible contest), but it's an intriguing idea that spans PC and mobile phones.

Tapatap website