Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 review’
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 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 (20-03-09)
March 20th, 2009
Hi all, here is this week’s installment of my favourite web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. News Sift is a specialised news search portal for business news provided by The Financial Times Group. - Great for research and locating coverage.
2. This is a first for Five on Friday, the next tool is actually a wordpress plugin that I thought looked interesting. It’s a heat map plugin that tracks user clicks on your blog. - Track Your Blog User Clicks Heatmap using Wordpress Heatmap Plugin
3. Tired of the same old PPT presentation style? An alternative could be Prezi “The zooming editor for beautiful presentations” Check out one of the examples here.
4. Sign Pad is a neat little tool that lets you add the service updates from your blog feed, Twitter and other similar sites to your signature. Microsoft Outlook is currently unsupported but coming soon.
5. Feed Weaver lets you splice multiple feeds into one RSS feed. This is a very easy to use site, check out the demo on the home page.
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (20-02-09)
February 20th, 2009
As always my favourite web 2.0 sites and tools of the week.
1. At long last I have waited for a service to step up and do this:
Twe2 offers Free Twitter SMS alerts in Europe and beyond. We don’t charge you to receive an SMS, Twe2 is Totally Free and we mean it…
Check out Twe2
2. URL rate gives a website a mark out of ten based on a number of factors including age ,domain, page rank check, inbound links, traffic ranks and site value.
Here is how Google got on:
3. This has to be my favourite site of the week, it’s so unbelievably simple: TinyChat lets you create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link.
4. Got an iPhone, use Twitter, want people to know where you are?
Try Schmap, the banner below sums it up better than I can describe it.
5. Finally today we have a simple and easy to use ‘free’ to-do list, application and productivity tool that focuses on your organisation by putting your content first. Supports Twitter. URL: Listflock.