Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 resource’
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (06-02-09)
February 6th, 2009
Usual Friday round-up of my favourite Web 2.0 sites and tools of the week.
1. First up is Stimator, a real-time website value estimator. The engine deliveries the most accurate economical value that a website could be worth by collecting important data from different sources. The results are indexed to database references and to the financial market in order to re-produce, as far as is possible, how much investors are prepared to invest. I’d love to know how they work their algorithms out!
2. Chart chooser is next - use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data. Something I’ll definitely be using in the near future.
3. If you want to build your own microblogging community then Flokio is for you. It’s simple to set up, and once you create a group, you’ll be able to start joining others. You can make either private or public groups, which makes it easy for you to share with everyone or just with a select group of people.
4. 99 chats lets you create a free account and then start your own chat room. You can then add your chat room to your website, blog or social network profile.
5. Trigga.me looks interesting, but it’s in private beta at the moment so I haven’t actually checked it out. It gives you the ability to enable group-based updates to your social networks. Right now you can use Trigga.me with these services:
More of the same next week!
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (30-01-09)
January 30th, 2009
You know how this works by now, I list 5 of my favourite web 2.0 tools of the week and you check them out!
1. A nice graph to start off the 5 web 2.0 tools selection with. Twitter Venn is a Venn graph that searches up to 3 terms in Twitter. The results are shown as the rate of tweets containing the search terms in the various combinations.
2. The Twitter influence calculator, the influence calculator lets Twitter users determine their personal influence, discover the most influential users in Twitter and compare themselves to others.
3. Want to know which Wiki is best, or suitable for a particular use go check out Wiki Matrix - Compare the Wikis of your choice in a comfortable side-by-side table.
4. Photo Peach helps you share your memories in a lively and vivid way by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo, fun effects, and more, the spiral effect is worth checking out.
Windows 7 Beta Screen shots on Photo Peach
5. Finally today we have Deadline, a slick little deadline line calendar tool. You input your reminder, and it will set up the reminder for you.
Once your appointments have been entered, you can quickly search through them based on words or dates you also get the option to have email updates. Reminders can also be accessed via mobile devices.
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (23-01-09)
January 23rd, 2009
After another mental week of running around the country to meet my client’s needs, I’m back again with the latest installment of five on Friday posts series.
1. Checkvist is first up. Checkvist is a collaborative task list manager. Within each task you can add notes and get updates of recent changes. The best thing about Checkvist is its simplicity and ease of use, and on top of that it’s free! - I’ve started using Checkvist on a collaborative project already!
2. The next web 2.0 site is a really useful wiki called wikiHow. WikiHow is the how-to-Manual that you can edit. wikiHow currently contains 49,941 articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
3. As always I like to include a weekly Twitter tool, and this week it goes to Tweetree. Tweetree offers you a Twitter stream in a tree format so that you can see the posts that people are replying to in context. A very good and simple idea.
Here is an example of Tweetree.
4. ‘Out of Five’ is a new service that posts reviews in microblog style.
This is how you do it:
- Sign up for a Twitter account,
- Relpy @oo5
- add the item you are reviewing
- then add your score
- and finally your review
@oo5 thing score review
At the moment the reviews are mainly film-related, but the key is that you have to post the review in 140 words or less.
5. Cool Flick is a Flickr search engine with a slick interface. Search for an image via a tag, then click onto your chosen image to get a closer look. When you have chosen the image you can then embed it into your blog via a piece of HTML code. - Recommended.
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (16-01-09)
January 16th, 2009
Back once again with another five web 2.0 tools on Friday.
1.This first tool is good for doing a bit of snooping. It’s called snitch.name and it finds peoples’ profiles on social sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr plus many more.
2.Video alerts is up next. What I like about Video-Alerts is that everything is automated - you get an email notification when new videos are uploaded to YouTube from your specified keywords.
3.The simplicity of Pingvine is beautiful. Pingvine is a free service that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter.
- 1. Select your service
- 2. Bang in your username and password
- 3. Paste in your feed URL
- 4. Select frequency and submit!
4. If you use RSS feeds a lot then this next web 2.0 site is for you. Basically xFruits will allow you to do anything you want with RSS feeds. Go check it out as it’s definitely worth a bookmark.
5. Want to turn several links into one link? I have just the thing - 1Linkin. Insert your links, one on each line, press the big blue button and hey presto you are given one final link in return.
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (14-11-08)
November 14th, 2008
The Five on Friday webmaster is on holiday this week, so I’m filling in. I hope this week’s five are of interest, all themed around tools for your blog.
Normal service will be resumed next week:
1. iSpeech is first up today. It’s a useful tool that can convert your favourite websites, RSS, Blogs and documents into speech with any PC or mobile device, allowing you to easily podcast your favourite blogs and feeds.
2. Sikbox is next and don’t be put off by the name as it’s a search engine for your blog, offering full live search capabilities to your site in minutes. It’s easy to use and can be placed anywhere on your site using just a single line of Javascript code.
3. Feel like getting a bit more interactive with your blog subscribers? Then try Askablogr - an integrated blog question and answer service that allows readers to submit questions to bloggers who in turn can answer directly. Askablogr also creates an index of all the participating bloggers, readers and Q&A sessions, which opens you up to a world of new potential subscribers!
4 Zemanta is a useful tool that helps your browser to recognise what you are blogging about and then suggests pictures, links articles and tags to help you improve your post.
5. And finally for this week, if you enjoy commenting in the blogosphere, this one is for you: BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments. Whenever you update the website field in a comment form of related site, BackType attributes it to you and adds it to a database profile featuring all the comments that you have published - lovely!
Until next week!
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (24-10-08)
October 24th, 2008
Here is my usual weekly round up of web 2.0 tools and sites.
1, Shopnics.com: Visual Comparison is a neat little web 2.0 site that gives you a graph of all the best products in a certain category in order of price. You can refine your search with sliders on the left hand side of the screen to really drill down to the correct item. - Great site!
2, explash.com is a simple to use social web 2.0 directory. It gives you news about new Web 2.0 websites, services and applications, you can also vote for your favourite sites via its community.
3, Next up is Screen Toaster a free simple to use web based screen recorder. The best thing about screen reader is that you can very easily Share videos by emailing them or embedding them on blogs, and the quality looks pretty decent too.
4, This next one is for all your travellers out their. The site is called TV Trip - The Hotel Video Guide. The aim of the site is to give video representation of hotels, so you get an idea of the hotel before your stay. The videos are shot by TVtrip professionals rather than by the hoteliers themselves, which ensures that you will receive an impartial demonstration of the place.
5, Say Tweet is my final web 2.0 site/tool of the week. Upload a photo of yourself, or you and a friend, tag each Twitter user in the photo, and each Tweet sent lands on the photo next to the correct person - a kind of image Twitter mash up!