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Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (13-03-09)
March 13th, 2009
It’s Friday, so here is my weekly top five sites and web 2.0 tools of the week.
1. Plum allows you to add groups to your website, giving visitors to your wesbsite a place to talk and share ideas about themes and topics surrounding your site.
2. UberVU is an easy way to track, start and respond to conversations, even if they take place across multiple sites and services.
Today conversation around online stories takes place across an increasing number of services and networks. To give an example, you might upload a video to YouTube that then gets embedded in a blog post. That post receives comments and it gets posted on Twitter, where it also gets some replies. The Twitter post gets to FriendFeed where the conversation continues.
All of this is part of a single conversation, but you can’t see it because it’s trapped inside different services. That’s where uberVU comes in.
3. Whos Talkin is a great social search tool. It searches across many blog services, news sites, social networks, video sites, image sites, forums and via tag sites such as Wordpress.
4. twtbase is a Twitter application database. You can narrow down your search by choosing either Web Mobile Desktop Browser Plugins Mashups or even Submit an App.
5. surchur is a little like Whos Talkin, apart from the fact that it boasts to be the ultimate ‘what’s on the web now’ dashboard. Search any topic and Surchur will pull in feeds from a multitude of different sites and sources. One cool feature of Surchur is the Surchmeter, which shows you how popular a keyword is on different sources: surchur, blogs and twitter. A 10 means the keyword is super hot and a 1 not hot at all.
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (27-02-09)
February 27th, 2009
This month has gone so quickly, but as per normal here is your weekly instalment of my 5 favourite web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. Twitter Pearch. Add a keyword to the interface and when someone uses that keyword you automatically follow them. It only allows you to follow a maximum of 20 people a day.
2. Twibs. A tool that lists all companies and business on Twitter in alphabetical order. Browse through 5,116 current Twitter businesses.
3. Link extender is a Firefox only add-on. It gives you loads of information on websites, website safety information, site traffic, ratings, and demographics. Recommended.
4. Breaking Tweets. This tool offers a brief overview of a breaking news story, and then uses Twitter posts as quotes within the story, with links to other sources for those wanting more information on the breaking news.
5. This week’s Five on Friday is a little Twitter heavy, so we might as well finish it with a Twitter clone called Flokio - start your own microblogging group. Just pick a group name and URL and off you go!
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.
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (13-02-09)
February 13th, 2009
Here we go with this week’s exciting array of 5 web 2.0 tools and sites.
1. First off is a simple to use graphs and charts maker called Chart Tool.
Simply choose your chart, add the data, labels,fonts, then preview and finally download your graph in a number of formats to your desktop. Easy.
2. SEO rush is a one touch resource which provides you a FREE SEO report for your URL, or a competitors URL.
The report will return On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO as well as social presence, indexed pages, validation, meta information, various ranks and standard domain information.
3. PageRankAlert.com, allows you to track your pagerank changes. It also list sites with with page rankings all the way down to sites with no page rank. Each site is also given a page history which includes tags and page rank movement over time.
4. Sputtr is next, with Sputtr you can save valuable time by having all the right searches on just one page!
5. BloggersBase provides a discovery platform for bloggers, user-generated-content and readers alike. This platform takes the form of an online magazine spanning various topics, each implemented as a multi-authored blog, and moderated by algorithm-enhanced crowd wisdom.
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 (12-12-08)
December 12th, 2008
Ok, here we go with this week’s Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
1. I like this a lot, but it’s a shame it’s only availavble in the US. It’s called near.ly, and sends you via Twitter links to news and blog posts happening within 1000 feet of your address.
2. This next one is a mobile version of one of my personal faviourite sites of all time - Delicious. Delicious Mobile enables you to sign into your account and browse your bookmarks, tags, inbox, and other data. You can also browse popular and recent bookmarks and tags from the Delicious community.
3. ChizMax is next up. Search music by artist or song and not only do you get the video for the song but the lyrics too. Karaoke on your laptop!
4. The Shorty Awards are next. Honor the world’s top Twitterers over dozens of categories. Voting closes on December 31st.
5. Here is your bonus Christmas tool/site. The holiday toy list gives you toy ideas in age and then price categories.
See you next Friday for a pre Christmas Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
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Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (05-12-08)
December 5th, 2008
December is here already, and here is my usual web 2.0 tool and site weekly round-up.
1. As always the obligatory Twitter tool: this week it’s called twitbacks . “Brand yourself on Twitter by creating your very own Twitter background. Simply add your photo, logo and contact information. Then choose a theme and TwitBacks will automatically create a Twitter profile background” - pretty easy to do this yourself if you know your way around Photoshop!
2. This next Web 2.0 tool is a neat SEO tool. It is called SEO Extractor. You add your keywords to the site, and it generates a report telling you where you are positioned on Google Yahoo and MSN. You will also receive an email when your ranking goes up or down.
3. Zing Sale is up next. Zing Sale lets you know when products you want go on sale, alerting you via email.
This is what LifeHacker had to say about it:
ZingSale Notifies You When Products Go on Sale
“You don’t have to run a manual search every day from now until December 23rd to find the best price on an item you’re hot to purchase but only for so much - ZingSale will monitor item prices for you over time, and email you when they go on sale.”
4. A little bit of nostalgia now. My Tweet 16 gives you your first ever 16 Tweets - my first was on December the 16th.
5. We finish off today’s little jaunt with a nice clean PDF search engine called PDFse. Just enter a keyword and it will find the related keyword ebook.
See ya next week!
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Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (31-10-08)
October 31st, 2008
Back again with my usual weekly round-up of the best Web 2.0 sites and tools.
1, Sendo is the first Web 2.0 tool of the day. Sendo allows you to store all types of media and share them simply and easily with people you choose privately or publicly via a URL.
2, Scene Caster is next up, which allows you to build your own 3D scene using various objects and then add your own photos, music and video. After you have made your scene you can share it on your blog or social networking application.
3, This has to be my favourite site of the week by a mile. It’s yet another Twitter spin-off called Twitter Tickets. Simply follow the Twitter accounts for your chosen geographic area to receive upcoming ticket announcements - nice!
4, App Appeal is a Web 2.0 review site. The applications are categorised with extensive user reviews.
5, Finally we have the Social media business list wiki. This is something Liberate Media has produced from a well-read Peter Kim post. The post was entitled ‘A List of Social Media Marketing Examples’, and the post looked at businesses using social media. Liberate Media has turned this post into an editable wiki for other businesses to add their own social media offerings to the list.
Below is a screen shot from the social media business list wiki:
More of the same 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!