Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 news’
Five on Friday - five fabulous web tools of the week (03.07.09)
July 3rd, 2009
Hi all, here is the first five fabulous web tools of the week in July. Where has the first half of the year gone?
1. Talon is a very easy to use screen capture tool. You can add the bookmarklet to your toolbar, and when you are on a page that you need a screen grab from, just click the bookmarklet and your page is saved to either your clipboard, desktop or online.
2.Twitter Follower Another easy to use tool that helps you follow people on Twitter by keyword. Add your account details and keyword and then Twitter Follower will find and follow users that have the keyword in their description.
3. DIY Chart allows you to create interactive charts and graphs from static or dynamic data. Read more about the features and benefits here
4. CoTweet is currently in private beta so I haven’t actually tried it, but by looking at the list of clients they have using the software it looks quite impressive. In a nutshell CoTweet is a platform that helps companies reach and engage customers using Twitter.
5. Wikirage Wikirage tracks the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits over various periods of time. Useful for trending information.
More of the same next week.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web tools of the week (26.06.09)
June 26th, 2009
It’s Friday again, so here are my favourite web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. My.alltop Alltop has been around for quite some time now, but the introduction of MyAlltop enables you to create a “personal, online magazine rack” of your favorite websites and blogs. You can create a collection from over 32,000 information source. They also provide a custom URL so that you can share your masterpiece with others.
2. imsdb Stands for the Internet Script movie data base. Most films seem to be on here, so pick your film and rehearse your quotes!
3. Pictaculous. This great tool allows you to upload an image and then gives you a suggested colour pallet based on the uploaded image.
4. Tiny petition. This very simple to use Twitter tool allows you the create and start petitions. Great if you want to get visibility on an issue quickly.
5. Visitor contact. Create slick contact forms for your site . The customisable sticky contact button will match the theme of your website to become a part of it. Your visitors are now a single click away from you. The form allows visitors to contact you with a single click via Twitter, maps, skype, and more.
More of the same next week.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web tools of the week (19.06.09)
June 19th, 2009
Here is this week round up of five fabulous web tools.
1.Topsy- Is a search engine power by Tweets. The results show you some nice information on the search term, such as who has Tweeted about it.
2. Tweet Grid - Pick the size of your Twitter grid and add a keyword search in each section, great if your looking after a number of brands.
3. Twitalyzer - Very useful Twitter tool used to measures such things as infuence.
4.Limmz - Many search engines in one, place your search term in the area and then pick a more tailored search engine to search with.
5. Snap Stream - A search engine that Graphs mentions of any word on national U.S. television from station such as ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, MSNBC and CNN.
More of the same next week.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web tools of the week (05.06.09)
June 5th, 2009
Hi guys
Me again, your five on Friday sub. Your usual Five on Friday host will be back next week, but until then let’s take a look at this week’s selection.
First off, we have:
1. Photoxpress - If, like me, you use images to spice up your posts and comments, this free photo finding tool will come in very useful. It’s a quality image bank providing you with a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use.
2. Almost.at -This tool allows you to follow people at real world events in realtime. Simply choose an event from the list provided and track the conversations and pictures. Content will be displayed in realtime but you can pause as required. Currently in beta but a very nice idea.
3. Moogo - The time when you had to shell out thousands of pounds for a website has long since passed, and yes this isn’t the only option to get a free website, but it’s easy to use, quick and offers some nice features such as web stores, blogs, photo albums and mobile pages. It’s aimed at small companies, associations and individuals, so give it a go, even if it’s just for an event or service that you are launching.
4. TypingWeb - Embarrassed about your typing speed? Still only use two fingers to bash out your documents? Come on, everyone would like to type a bit faster and this app could be the help you’ve been looking for. It’s a free online typing tutor for typists of all ages and skills.
5. AlmostMeet - This is a very useful service for collaborative group meetings, allowing everyone to talk and see each other, using peer-to-peer technology, which also enables visibility of participant’s desktops, whiteboards and file sharing. And of course, it’s free!
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools of the week (29-05-09)
May 29th, 2009
Hello all
Your regular ‘Five on Friday’ host isn’t here today, so I’ll be your captain for the week, steering a path through the sea of web 2.0 tools.
To kick us off, we have a recommendation from a reader:
1. Twiogle - It’s a great search engine that indexes Google and Twitter, easy to use, simple and it also has nice video, book, blog, and image functionality. Top job!
2. Yasni - In at number two, and another recommendation from our loyal readers, Yasni is a people-based search engine, with more than 10 million visitors worldwide each month. Imagine Google meets Friends Reunited.
3. Tweepler - We’re going back to Twitter for number 3, and specifically organising your Twitter feed. Tweepler is a processing tool that allows you to classify your new Twitter followers in one of two ‘buckets’. ‘Follow’, meaning you wish to follow them back and ‘Ignore’ meaning you don’t want to follow them and can archive them out of the way, reducing Twitter noise.
4. FileTwt - This is a useful application allowing Twitter users to upload a file and tweet about it automatically. It also allows users to send file links as direct messages for sharing private files.
5. Trackle - Finally, with all of our web profiles and accounts, we need a tool to keep track, and this is it. Trackle tracks all of your personalised information on the web and then indexes it by category. The service is built using algorithms that provide a layer of intelligence meaning timely results with notification via web, email or SMS.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (15-05-09)
May 15th, 2009
Here is this week’s bundle of 5 top web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. Scoopler is a real-time search engine taking feeds from Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. The most relevant and timely results are found at the top of the page.
2. Spezify is a very visual search engine, all the results are laid out like a mood board. I really liked the way this was set out all though the page was quite slow to scroll, it’s still in early beta.
3. OpenZine lets you create your very own free web magazine with text, pictures & video, in reality you create a blog that groups your posts with a magazine style cover. One of the best features about OpenZine is the create a cover process.
4. Flackr aggregates all the latest breaking news from a number of different sources on Twitter into a neat dashboard. If you are interested in one particular story you can click on that story and then view additional updates linked to that piece.
5. Clixpy is a usability tool that tracks how people interact with your site. Try the Clixpy demo to get an idea of how it works, this tool could be great for webmasters to optimise their website landing pages.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (24-04-09)
April 24th, 2009
The end of the working week in near, so as always I present my five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. First off is News Trendz which gives you the low down on the latest, most talked about issues, people, events and news on the web by searching through Google and Twitter. The current top trend is 1. Susan Boyle
2. Analytics App for the iPhone provides you with Google Analytics for any account you administer. The app is very well laid out and gives you all the information you see in the web-based version. A great app!
3. Last week we featured NameChk which checks if profile names have been taken or not across social networks, news and bookmarking sites. KnowEm? does the same thing, but is slightly more visual and checks a few more accounts.
4. Social Media Metrics Plugin for Google Anayltics - this automatically pulls in social media metrics into Google Analytics’ Content Detail reports. To run it you need Firefox, and the Greasemonkey script. Check out the link to find out how to set it up.
5. Finally a little bit of fun. Cameroid lets you take crazy snaps of yourself right from your browser via a webcam. There are loads of different effects and filters to choose from to make your photo stand out.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (17-04-09)
April 17th, 2009
Hi all, after a two week absence I’m back with five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. Top Twitter friends helps you to visualise the people that you talk to most often, and what your Twitter social network looks like.
2. Chat Chatcher is a WordPress plugin that monitors comments for your blog posts. These are then posted on your blog.
3. Who is ranking is a quick and dirty way to see which sites rank highest for certain keywords in searches at Google, MSN, and Yahoo.
4. The ReTweet button is today’s second WordPress plugin. The Retweet button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to retweet their content on Twitter.
5. NameChk as the name suggests, checks names. It checks usernames that are still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (27-03-09)
March 27th, 2009
Here is this week’s round-up of my favourite web 2.0 tools and websites.
1. The first site today is called Wiki Rank. Wiki Rank gives you the heads up on what people are looking at on Wikipedia. On viewing the homepage you get the latest trend information and most popular pages read over the last 30 days. You can also do a simple search to find out how many times a particular page has been read. This site has a great look and feel to it also.
2. Skimmer is an Adobe Air application that lifestreams your social media activity from sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Blogger. This desktop app has a luxury feel about it, and is recommend if you use Flickr a lot of the time.
3. Looking for a tool to suggest keywords for your website? Keywordle might just help. Simply enter your website URL and it will generate a list of relevant keywords. After the report is generated you can obtain the meta data code to use within your site, if you so wish.
4. Next up is a fun site for making storyboards. Story Top lets you create multi-page stories, drag and drop clip art to illustrate your story, add text in dialogue boxes, create storytelling clubs with your friends, and share your stories with others.
5. PDFVue is a PDF editing tool designed to annotate and mark-up PDFs for free. PDFVue allows you to upload any document from any computer. Once you’ve made your changes you can simply download the updated PDF or share the secure PDFVue link. It’s a very useful tool.
More of the same next week, see you then!
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (05-03-09)
March 6th, 2009
Here’s the usal run-down of my favourite five web 2.0 sites and tools of the week.
1. This first one is a bit of a shameless plug. It’s our own site Pressitt, which is a social media news release creation and publishing tool. I wont big it up too much but I’ll just say that we think it’s pretty good!
2. daymix lets you search for general topics and then gives you a whole host of information from major online news agencies, blog posts, Twitter conversations and the buzz surrounding these topics as of late. The site also includes images and videos. A great site!
3. Singlefunction is a web site that showcases clean simple websites that simply have one function. The site lets you make suggestions and view the showcase.
4. Wonderwall - if you like all things celebrity you will like this. On entering the site you are prestented with a wall of celebrity faces - scroll down until you find a face of interest, click on it and you’ll be taken to a related story. A cool site from MSN Entertainment.
5. I really like the interface of Loom TV . Enter your search term and you will be taken to a very slick page where you can narrow down your selection, watch a video and do all sorts of other social related stuff. Loom TV can also be used as desktop application. Give it a go, as I think you’ll like it!
