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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 (23-01-09)
January 23rd, 2009
After another mental week of running around the country to meet my client’s needs, I’m back again with the latest installment of five on Friday posts series.
1. Checkvist is first up. Checkvist is a collaborative task list manager. Within each task you can add notes and get updates of recent changes. The best thing about Checkvist is its simplicity and ease of use, and on top of that it’s free! - I’ve started using Checkvist on a collaborative project already!
2. The next web 2.0 site is a really useful wiki called wikiHow. WikiHow is the how-to-Manual that you can edit. wikiHow currently contains 49,941 articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
3. As always I like to include a weekly Twitter tool, and this week it goes to Tweetree. Tweetree offers you a Twitter stream in a tree format so that you can see the posts that people are replying to in context. A very good and simple idea.
Here is an example of Tweetree.
4. ‘Out of Five’ is a new service that posts reviews in microblog style.
This is how you do it:
- Sign up for a Twitter account,
- Relpy @oo5
- add the item you are reviewing
- then add your score
- and finally your review
@oo5 thing score review
At the moment the reviews are mainly film-related, but the key is that you have to post the review in 140 words or less.
5. Cool Flick is a Flickr search engine with a slick interface. Search for an image via a tag, then click onto your chosen image to get a closer look. When you have chosen the image you can then embed it into your blog via a piece of HTML code. - Recommended.
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 (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 (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 (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 (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!
Five on Friday - five fabulous Web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (14-11-08)
November 14th, 2008
The Five on Friday webmaster is on holiday this week, so I’m filling in. I hope this week’s five are of interest, all themed around tools for your blog.
Normal service will be resumed next week:
1. iSpeech is first up today. It’s a useful tool that can convert your favourite websites, RSS, Blogs and documents into speech with any PC or mobile device, allowing you to easily podcast your favourite blogs and feeds.
2. Sikbox is next and don’t be put off by the name as it’s a search engine for your blog, offering full live search capabilities to your site in minutes. It’s easy to use and can be placed anywhere on your site using just a single line of Javascript code.
3. Feel like getting a bit more interactive with your blog subscribers? Then try Askablogr - an integrated blog question and answer service that allows readers to submit questions to bloggers who in turn can answer directly. Askablogr also creates an index of all the participating bloggers, readers and Q&A sessions, which opens you up to a world of new potential subscribers!
4 Zemanta is a useful tool that helps your browser to recognise what you are blogging about and then suggests pictures, links articles and tags to help you improve your post.
5. And finally for this week, if you enjoy commenting in the blogosphere, this one is for you: BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments. Whenever you update the website field in a comment form of related site, BackType attributes it to you and adds it to a database profile featuring all the comments that you have published - lovely!
Until next week!
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!