Posts with tag web2
Posted Oct 11th 2007 3:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Web services, Search, web 2.0
You wouldn't normally think to take notes using a social application as Twitter, but it is possible.
Twitternotes is an online application that uses the Twitter API to basically, take notes. This tool is a little more complicated than scratching something down in a notebook, using Outlook Notes, or one of the
many other online note tools but if you have Twitter open throughout the day, this might come in handy.
Users log into the system using their Twitter account information, and add TwitterNotes as a follower. Notes can be added to your account privately or open for all users to see using special characters and combinations in your Twitter entry. Notes can then be picked up when logged into your TwitterNotes account, which is a bit frustrating because it would be nice to be able to simply check these notes out in Twitter itself under Direct Messages. Nonetheless, it's just another way to try and stay organized and on top of your to-dos.
Posted Oct 9th 2007 9:00AM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Fun, Internet, Web services, web 2.0
Whether you are a homeowner trying to best squeeze all of your new furniture into your new space, a student experimenting with different furniture placements, or just thinking about knocking out a few walls and creating a new space,
FloorPlanner could be your space-planning answer.
This free application takes the pencil, drafting table, and the $150/hr architect out of the equation and lets everyday people create and play around with floor plans online. Floor plans are simple to create with a feature rich toolset of drawing tools and household items to place on plans. Users start off by creating living space walls, choosing flooring material, adding doors and windows, and dropping in furniture and electrical outlets. Walls can be moved, colors changed and furniture moved all with a simple click until the perfect plan is set. Floor Plans can then be saved, printed, shared with friends and eventually turned into a 3d space. (In testing mode and only available in Plus and Pro accounts.)
This free online floor plan creation tool is a joy to use. Its simple controls and clean layout make it easy to create rough layouts for all kinds of living spaces quickly. Users can get as creative as they wish, and quite possibly use this as a base design for architects, interior designers and construction trades.
Posted Oct 6th 2007 11:30AM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Internet, Features, Web services, web 2.0
TiotiThis online social media aggregator pulls in TV shows and lets users edit and add to the show content. Tioti lists out the online sources that the TV shows come from, their download sources, and makes it possible for people to rate and discuss the shows.
Electric CheckbookA way to manage your checking, savings and credit card accounts online. All payments, deposits and transfers can be tracked, and checkbooks can be shared with friends or whomever you wish. (Do you normally show your friends your account balances credit card bills?) Although questionable whether people would want an external service to get an inside look at your net worth, this app is user friendly and cleanly layed out.
BatchBookHave a small business? BatchBook might be able to help out with contact management. They have built a simple system that can be customized depending on the needs of the business. BatchBook lets users keep track of contacts, customers, vendors and anyone that you might do business with online through a drag and drop interface. Reminders can be set for dates, and all communications can be logged.
ZuzzidAn online community for insurance customers. This is the place for people to go and communicate with other customers to advise others on the best deals around, check out reviews, and gossip about good and bad experiences. At present, the service is only available to users in the UK.
EmailTwitterSend and receive updates to Twitter via email, whether it's a mobile device or desktop computer. Fill out the registration and send a brief email with your Twitter username and password in the subject line to begin the connection. The body of the email is your twitter update, remember to stay within 140 characters. Just another way to let people know what you are up to quickly.
Posted Oct 4th 2007 2:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, Productivity, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Evite might be the leader in online party invitations online, but that's not stopping MyPunchbowl from steaming ahead to battle.
MyPunchbowl has just landed some
seed funding that will allow them to build out there increasingly popular invitation tools. The first round of funding will see MyPunchbowl sort out its revenue model as well as hire developers and initiate marketing efforts to grow their event planning website.
Download Squad originally
covered their launch early this year. Punchbowl Software has watched the event space heat up, and this new cash will allow MyPunchbowl to be develop a strict verification and feedback process to ensure that its design is easy to use for the everyday party planner, making for a much more enjoyable planning process. This in turn could lead to some interface and design changes down the road , as well as some user suggested features.
MyPunchbowl is a free event planning website that helps coordinate, manage and plan parties through an easy to use party planner checklist and slick easy to use interface. Keep your eye on these guys.
Posted Oct 3rd 2007 3:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0
Getting ready for interviews can sometimes be tricky. You just never know what to really expect, but want to stay on your toes and be prepared for anything. That's where
InterviewUp steps into place.
The InterviewUp online community allows people to share, ask, find and search interview questions and answers. If InterviewUp manages to attract a strong user community, this could be a great tool for anyone out on the job hunt. The website will be dedicated to interview questions and answers and guide users along the path to doing well in an interview to get the job that are qualified for.
Too bad its currently only in a private beta, and accessible by invitation only.
Posted Sep 28th 2007 5:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Photo, E-mail, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Slide.com has been getting some much deserved respect in the photo sharing sector this year,
beating out Flickr with their unique photo offering amongst Kiwi users.
Slide grew by 228% between the beginning of May and the end of September this year, stepping over the popular Flickr in New Zealand.
Slide lets its users upload images from social networks, photo sharing sites and desktops to create custom slideshows with sounds, themes and effects to share amongst friends.
Flickr dropped to third place in New Zealand with a 13.73% market share, and PhotoBucket took second place with 15%. Social networks are driving the new found interest in Slide, with 59.18% of users coming from Facebook App widgets, and 21% from Bebo.
Flickr still keeps users interest, with the average user staying for 9mins, 3mins longer than Slide viewers. As for worldwide users, Flickr is zooming along with over 10 million registered users, and 27 million unique visitors worldwide. Slide however, has been rocking the widget world and managed to serve over 117 million widgets worldwide in April 2007.
Posted Sep 28th 2007 1:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services, web 2.0
Widgets, most people use them now on their social network pages, blogs, or even on desktops. But where did they originate and how did they come to be? Niall Kennedy, the widget guru, answers that in his
brief history of the widget.
Where did it all begin? Back in 1981 when the graphical user interface was first designed for home use. Netscape pushed the widget along its journey in 1996 with the Navigator browser and PowerStart. This Netscape technology showed the latest stock quotes, weather and started using other dynamic web content. It wasn't until 2003 when Konfabulator hit the scene to bring OSX users fancy desktop widgets.
Now we have handy widgets everywhere, and they are such common place on everything from mobile devices, desktops, and websites. Niall has also created a
widget timeline available here.
Posted Sep 26th 2007 7:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Web services, web 2.0
Think you have a hot startup idea? Write it down and you could net a little funding.
Bang Ventures from New York is offering $15,000 U.S. for startup CEOs to get their ideas off the ground.
"You Be The VC" Candidates start by submitting applications outlining their plans for a new internet startup. These will be judged by handpicked professionals in the startup field to guarantee unbiased results and ensure that funding goes to best idea seen in the public's eye. There are no limits as to the number of ideas that CEO's can submit, just as long as they are in by the deadline of December 2007.
Voting begins March 2008, with the $15,000 prize money, temporary relocation expenses to Cambridge, MA, and living expenses being handed out upon final vote submissions. Winners of the "You Be The VC" campaign will also be able to utilize Bang Venture's support network, resources and materials.
[via
killerstartups]
Posted Sep 26th 2007 12:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, Security, Web services, Google, Search, web 2.0
Your open Gmail account could be in severe jeopardy, thanks to a malicious script that initiates itself when a website is viewed,
The tables have turned from hacking your computer, to hacking your virtually stored information. Supposedly hackers are
not seeing the benefits of attacking your protected and firewalled computer these days, and are much happier to go after hacking Web 2.0 API's. Such is the case in a recent exposure of a critical process that executes a filter looking for specific incoming emails, sending them to another email address for snooping and prying. The filter would be in place until the Gmail account owner deletes it from the Settings>Filter menu.
Gnucitizen broke the news on this, and it has been
verified by a few sources. He is not planning on demonstrating this process, or releasing more details on findings until Google has fixed this concern. He is also urging that others do not expose anything until they have notified Google and a fix is implemented. But does say that the hacks are out in the open for anyone searching Yahoo or Google.
Posted Sep 25th 2007 1:30PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Design, Internet, E-mail, Office, Productivity, Web services, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0
Checking multiple accounts is just a fact of life for many users. Log into a Yahoo account, then switch over to Gmail, then off to Facebook. Fuser aims to make things a little easier.
With
Fuser, users can check multiple email accounts and social networks from one place and with one interface. Emails can be pulled in, read and replied to from popular email apps like Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and SquirrelMail as well as POP and IMAP emails and such social networks as MySpace and Facebook with a single login.
There is no limit to the number of email and social network accounts you tie into Fuser. All emails can be sent to one inbox, or the application can be set up so that incoming mail can be better organized through folders. As for security, Fuser does not store any of your emails. It simply views them. So if you delete an email from your regular email account, it is deleted in Fuser. All information is stored in encrypted databases, including passwords, usernames and any information that is transmitted.
Fuser is a great way to streamline emails, and a real timesaver if you find yourself switching between a number of locations.
[via
TechCrunch]
Posted Sep 19th 2007 12:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Design, Internet, Text, E-mail, Web services, web 2.0
Looking for an easy way to set up an email newsletter?
Nourish will take any RSS feed and convert it into an email newsletter. The service is free to use, and relatively easy to set up and send out.
Want to keep customers up to date with your own newsletter?For companies that have a blog up and running, you can take that fresh content and easily package it into an email broadcast. Users register an account and presented with a campaign dashboard; four steps then stand in the way of your escape from the land of newsletter-less losers.
- Choose a name, subject and to and from name and email address.
- RSS Feed import - Paste the URL of your RSS feed, and grab posts from a certain date.
- Scheduling - Daily, Weekly and Monthly newsletters can be created at certain times of the day.
- Custom design (optional) - if you want your newsletter to better present your brand identity.
Subscribers to the newsletter are imported via a CSV file. When newsletters are sent out, Nourish will provide you with subscribers open rates, click through rates and the number of emails delivered. It's a great free service that has only one drawback, albeit a major one, there are currently only 10 subscribers allowed per account.
Posted Sep 18th 2007 6:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Finance, Internet, Security, Web services, web 2.0
The time has come when traveling with a wallet is not a necessity, and the only item you need on your person is a simple mobile device. Well, almost.
Mobibucks has created a free and secure payment solution that lets users pay using a cell phone and a 4 digit PIN code. How does it work?
- Register online using your cell phone number
- Add money to your account and manage all account information online.
- Make your purchase at a participating Mobibucks store using your 4 digit PIN and get confirmation through an SMS message.
Sounds like a nice and secure solution for always having money on your person and without having to carry all that change around, but how many stores are participating in Mobibucks? There are currently 23 stores around the U.S. offering this unique payment system, ranging from cafes, restaurants and video rental stores. If this Mountain View California based service catches on and is offered in a lot more locations over the next little while, it's going to be huge.
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ehub]
Posted Sep 18th 2007 3:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Business, Internet, Productivity, Web services
If you have ever had the need to create a quick and dirty webpage for a last minute party, or even to provide more information for the item you are listing for sale on Craigslist, Jottit could be your savior.
Users start off on the plain and simple
Jottit home page. All that is provided is a textbox where users can input any text they wish. When you click "Create a page," text will then show up on an editable page in a wiki-like format. From there, pages can be edited and revised as well as marked private, public (viewers would require a password to edit it) or open so that anyone can edit and view it as they wish. Jottit then provides a unique URL in which the page can than be accessed.
It doesn't stop there however. Users can then customize things even further with Jottit's settings. Users are given the option of creating a full website with multiple pages and a URL that is easier to remember. i.e.
http://downloadsquad.jottit.com/ with numerous subpages that have images, video and anything else that can be accessed with an embedding code option to create a better user experience and more robust web presence.
To check out more of what is possible with Jottit, visit our sample page at
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