Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 resource’
Five on Friday - five fabulous web tools and sites of the week (31.07.09)
July 31st, 2009
Hi all, here are my five top sites and tools of the week.
1. Wizehive is a project management tool similar to Basecamp. The wealth of features Wizehive has is incredible. At the moment it is in Beta and full functionality will remain free until the end of 2009.
2. twitcam as the name suggests is an application that lets you stream your webcam to twitter.
Other features:
- No sign up required
- 100% Free (ad supported)
- No software required
- Handles up to 100,000+ viewers
- Share your broadcast on other social networks.
3. Team box is another solution for team collaboration on projects. You can use the online app for free or you can try the open source version on your own server that allows you to customise it.
4. Stickam is a live social networking website that features user-submitted pictures, audio, video and most importantly, live web cam streams and live video chat (up to 12 people at a time). It is 100% free. Great tool!
5. twitroduce is a nice idea that lets you connect via twitter and make personal recommendations.
That’s all folks! more of the same next week.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web tools of the week (17.07.09)
July 17th, 2009
Hi all, here are my picks for this week’s edition of top tools and sites of the week.
1. Follow Me Social Media Wordpress Plugin The Follow Me widget allows you to display links to all your social media profiles in one, easy-to-access button or window, it’s easily deployable in your wordpress blog sidebar.
2. Survs. Survs is a collaborative tool that allows you to build, deploy and analyse online surveys. It is collaborative in the sense that you can cooperate with your teammates through the journey of building, deploying and analysing your surveys. You can even share your survey results, templates and themes online.
3. Geo Follow. A nice looking Twitter tool to search the directory by: City, State, Zip, Country, Tag, Name, Twitter Username and Keyword
4. Guzzle.it is an online personalised news page which provides a nice way to easily track information from a bunch of news sources on a single webpage. You can add any topic and build a page very quicky - Recommended.
5. Follow Formation is a simple tool for Twitter users who want to follow the top people in their areas of interest. Choose from top 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 people and then hit follow.
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 (12.06.09)
June 12th, 2009
It’s that time of the week again! - Here are my favourite web 2.0 tools of the week.
1.Google squared lets you square a search term, what i mean by square is present information on the search term in a grid. The searches work better if you are looking to get multiple answers. Check out the example for Roller Coaster.
2. Feed Stats brings you visualisations of a user’s FriendFeed activity. Just enter any FriendFeed user’s nickname and see their posting behavior.
3. TiltShift Generator is a very cool online app for editing images, it has some very nice effects including the ability to blur out the image - Recommended.
4. Obsurvey allows you to create surveys using the obsurvey tool. When you have created your survey, you are given a link to a webpage (a URL). You can send this link in an email to the targets that you want to answer your survey. View an example
5. Tiny chat allows you to create your own chat room and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chat room on your blog and in myspace. Tiny Chat can also be used to host video conferences with your participants.
More of the same next week.