Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 sites’
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 (10.07.09)
July 10th, 2009
Here is this weeks top tools and sites round up.
1. Screen Jelly. Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.
2. Kampyle is a feedback form for Websites is a powerful on-demand solution to collect, analyze and manage your website visitors’ feedback.
3. Chirbit is a free online tool for audio sharing, users to record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily. You can also use iPhone Voice Memos to post to chirbit.
4. Folowen It is a social profile search engine that aggregates the social media profiles of a person from 20 different social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc and presents the results on one single page
5. View like us Lets you quickly test website in different resolutions. You simply need to enter website URL into provided field and click on the “Submit” button. Once the page loads, you can click different resolution tabs to view how the site looks.
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 (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.
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 (08-05-09)
May 8th, 2009
Here is this week’s installment of my top web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. TechNews.AM is first up today. As the name suggests TechNews.AM is all about technology news, it has a broad range of categories to view, from jobs to start ups. You can either select the latest stories to read or the most viewed. A great way to catch up on the latest tech news.
2. Omgili has been around for a while now but one feature inside Omgili is pretty neat. Omgili buzz charts lets you measure and compare the Buzz of any term. The Buzz is defined as the percentage of the term out of the total number of discussions Omgili covered on a specific date. You can also embed the Buzz Graph inside any web-page and monitor the buzz on a daily basis.
3. Tweetbio gives you a simple extended bio that gives your followers, potential followers, and the people you’re following a better sense of who you are. Quickly link to all your other sites, blogs, and Twitter Networks from your Tweetbio.
4. wikiAlarm is the first monitoring service to send email alerts when selected articles are edited on Wikipedia. It is easy to use and lets you track unlimited pages, monitor your products & brand names as well as competitors.
5. Finally, we have the LinkedIn Companion. This Firefox add-on allows you to open doors and opportunities for networking and the facilitation of finding projects through LinkedIn’s connection to over 25 million experienced business professionals.
More of the same next week
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (01-05-09)
May 1st, 2009
Hi all, here are my five favorite web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. First off today we have a Google product - Google News Time Line. The timeline organises search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources in a browsable, graphical timeline.
2. URL Zoom is a service that allows you to shorten long URLs and also create trackable tiny URLs. Another nice feature is that you can also see the referring site and the date and time that the URL was clicked.
3. PDF to GIF is a great little paid for service that, as the name suggests, converts your PDFs to animated GIFS. The package prices are all very resonable and dependent on the size and amount of pages you need converting.
4. Reshade offers you a way to create high-quality resized images online or offline maintaining image quality (edge and texture). This is great for creating avatars.
5. tmeet is a tweet to meet. You can send a tmeet about your location to tell your friends where you are. The site is based around Google maps and there is also an iPhone app available.
More of the same next week.
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 (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.