Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up (02-10-2009)
October 2nd, 2009
Welcome to the second installment of ‘Weekly Social Media sites, tools and posts round up’. If you have any social media or web 2.0 tools you are particularly fond of please let me know and I will scrutinise them and possibly add them to my weekly list.
Here is this week’s social media tools list in no particular order:
1. TweepML.This is a really great idea, it allows you to create Twitter user lists and then share and follow them easily. Their are already some out there. Get your list up at TweepML, you can view them here.
2. YOURLS. This neat little service lets you create a custom URL shortening service. It also allows you to collate data from each link. You might need the tech team’s help with getting it going unless you use Wordpress, as YOURLS has developed a wordpress plugin.
3. Ranking the Brands collects all brand rankings published worldwide, and adds the findings to one central resource. There are currently not that many listing but it’s worth having a trawl around the different sub categories to drill down into different sectors.
4. Twitter power 150.The Twitter version of the Power150 Ranking, now run by Advertising Age. It was published back in January 2009, so a little out of date, but still a good place to find industry experts.
5. Twitter Steam graphs. StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with your search word. The graphs look pretty impressive, for a more in-depth overview visit the site.
Top post of the week: Is online PR the ultimate link-building technique?
Top SEO post of the week: The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need
More of the same social goodness next week, until then!
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 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 (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 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 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 (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.