Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 site’
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 (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 (09-01-09)
January 9th, 2009
Here we go with the first Five on Friday of 2009 - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. Chart Maker - Create line, bar, pie, venn diagram and scatter charts very easily. Simply pick your chart enter your data, name your chart, pick the dimensions and hit GET CHART - you will be given a URL and on that page is your completed graph.
2. Next up is a Twitter apps database called Twitdom. Twitdom currently has 142+ applications in its database that you can add to if you are a developer. Categories include
3.Spy is a social media conversation search tool. Track and listen to conversations you are interested in. It is powered by:
Twitter via Twitter Search
FriendFeed via FriendFeed
Flickr via Flickr
Blog Comments via BackType
Yahoo News via Yahoo! Search BOSS™
Blogs (RSS) via FriendFeed
Google Reader via FriendFeed
4. This is now - Kind of a strange one this and quite difficult to explain but basically it’s one massive visual dashboard with loads of statistics that are happening right now. Go check it out as it’s quite amazing!
5. Dwarf url a nice little url shortening service that gives you click statistics.
“To begin, just enter your big ole’ ugly URL and our little workers will shrink it down to a managable size!
It’s absolutely free to use, and your newly created link will never expire.
You can even enter in a password and see the statistics (how many clicks and where from) for your dwarfURL.”
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (28-11-08)
November 28th, 2008
This week has been a bit mental, but as always I fail to disappoint with my favourite 5 web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. First off we have Popacular. A very simple looking site that give you a list of the most popular websites mentioned on Twitter. You can also do the same for Delicious bookmarks.
2. This next one is something I have not actually tried! But the description got me buzzing. It’s a new web browser called Lunascape. It claims to be the fastest start up browser, here are some of the features:
- Crash protection functionality
- Mouse gestures
- Tab browsing
- Abundant plug-ins
- Smart favourites
3. Splitweet allow you to use multiple Twitter accounts at the same time, it also give you real time mentions of any keywords/brands you wish to monitor. - Could this be a Tweetdeck killer?
4. Microbloging is all the rage at the moment, if your a fan then this next web 2.0 tool might be right up you street. It is called ShoutEm. ShoutEm is simply a very customisable way or creating your own microblogging community, some of the features include links and photo sharing, geo location sharing and mobile browser support. There is also a paid for service which gives you a few more options such as private domains instead of *.shoutem.com domain. View the ShoutEm deom video.
5. Finally today is a review site called Trustpilot. Trustpilot collects the information about the company that you would have taken hours to find, and informs you automatically about positive or negative conditions you should know about.
Here are some of the company’s Trust pilot have reviewed (click to see the bigger picture)
