Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0 tools’
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 (05-03-09)
March 6th, 2009
Here’s the usal run-down of my favourite five web 2.0 sites and tools of the week.
1. This first one is a bit of a shameless plug. It’s our own site Pressitt, which is a social media news release creation and publishing tool. I wont big it up too much but I’ll just say that we think it’s pretty good!
2. daymix lets you search for general topics and then gives you a whole host of information from major online news agencies, blog posts, Twitter conversations and the buzz surrounding these topics as of late. The site also includes images and videos. A great site!
3. Singlefunction is a web site that showcases clean simple websites that simply have one function. The site lets you make suggestions and view the showcase.
4. Wonderwall - if you like all things celebrity you will like this. On entering the site you are prestented with a wall of celebrity faces - scroll down until you find a face of interest, click on it and you’ll be taken to a related story. A cool site from MSN Entertainment.
5. I really like the interface of Loom TV . Enter your search term and you will be taken to a very slick page where you can narrow down your selection, watch a video and do all sorts of other social related stuff. Loom TV can also be used as desktop application. Give it a go, as I think you’ll like it!
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 (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 (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 (19-12-08)
December 19th, 2008
Hi all, back again with a pre Christmas round-up of five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
Just to let you know, there will be no round-up on the 26th as I will have eaten too many Christmas treats and become too bloated to type! - back again the following Friday with a New Year special.
1. A little bit of fun to start with:) I’m in with like you. “Why hang out with your friends in person when you can do it on the internet? No need to wear clothes that way. Seriously, this is bigger than Jesus and wrestling put together.”
This is a really great flash site with the aim of making friends whilst playing against them over a series of fun individual games.
2. This next one is touted is an Opinion search, it is called OpThink. Simply type in the electronic product you want to find reviews for and off it goes, you end up with a list of search results.
3. I’m a big fan of Computer and video games so this next one is right up my street, it’s called dawdle - it’s a marketplace for buying and selling used video games, consoles and accessories.
4. Radio Beta . Yes people do still listen to radio, and if you need to try this site out! You can search stations by genre, location, tags, or geography. Radio Beta offers a nice clean interface with some decent options.
5. Finally today is Yonkly a site you can go to and create your own Microblog network. Features include:
- Monetize through Ads
- White label solution
- Use your own domain
- Advanced Control Panel
- Make it unique with your own skin
- Threaded conversations
- Picture sharing
- Background Picture
- Search friends and messages
- Advanced user interface
- Widgets-enabled sidebar
Happy Christmas!
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 (21-11-08)
November 21st, 2008
Back again, Fridays come around so quickly!
Anyway here’s the usual my round up of five of the best web 2.0 tools and sites of the week.
This week it’s all about Twitter!
1, Want to know how much your Twitter profile is worth? Check out Tweet Value which gives you a value in dollars. Then it gives you an option of promoting the amount via a badge you can put on your site.
2, This is the best site of the week so far and it only costs $150 to create. It’s called Twollow. Add key words within Twollow, then when someone tweets the keywords that you have specified you follow that account. - Neat!
Quick Twollow.com Demo from jon on Vimeo.
3, Twinfluene is a Twitter API to measure the combined influence of Twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as a bonus.
4, Next Twitter tool of the week is Tweet Scribe. Tweet Scribe is a new service that gives you a Twitter feed by topic or search term, instead of by who you know.
5,Twitter Lights is the final twitter tool of the day. You have to down load an application for this, but it looks worth it. Use i-lighter to highlight specific sentences on web pages then Tweet via your Twitter account.
Here is a video of how to use i-lighter:
Thats all folks!