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50+ Site Reviews

Tue, 2 May 2007 05:20:00 GMT

posted by fucc

Here you can find 50+ site reviews, all in just one post. Enjoy.

Nuuzio

Nuuzio is a free service that connects you with the best sources of the latest news, videos and reviews by compiling the best RSS feeds for everyone to read. We at Nuuzio found existing news sites out-dated in terms of user interface and thought that by bringing together Grazr's smooth user interface and the best RSS feeds we could make reading the latest news and reviews a more enjoyable experience. Another valuable aspect in Nuuzio is that all of the chosen RSS feeds update at least daily, so you can browse fresh news, videos and reviews every day.

Vortex DNA

For more than a century, visionary organizations have known the importance of aligning people around core purpose and values. Now, for the first time, an easy-to-use yet revolutionary technology allows you to see this alignment at a glance. Download the mywebDNA Firefox extension today to see how powerful VortexDNA technology can be used to make Google searches more effective.

Social News

iFancyIt is a User Driven Community and Bookmarking Fancy System that shares Revenues with its Community Members.

ProductCritic

Need an easy way to determine whether a specific Digital Camera, Camcorder, or Cell Phone is worth it? ProductCritic is a free site that gives you one location to find all the professional reviews of a particular product.

URateStuff

URateStuff is a worldwide community-driven Rating and Review site for Products. It is a site that helps anyone that either buys products, sells products or manufactures products.

Asoboo

Asoboo is a social network with functionality including member created blogs, events, places, and recommended media. With mobile interfaces in English and Japanese and PC interfaces in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish, Asoboo.com is Japan's only multilingual social network.

Glimpse

Glimpse.com is a fun and easy place for women to shop online for clothes, shoes, beauty, jewelry, and home décor.

Famiva

The premier social network for families, a secure and password-protected place for you and your relatives to connect and collaborate. Work together to build the family tree, visualize the extended family network, share photos and stories, stay current with family events and reminders, explore family maps, and much more.

DoMyStuff

DoMyStuff.com is an online community where busy people can quickly find Assistants to complete their chores.

Audiobaba

Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. Until now, there was no easy to way to browse for new music. Audiobaba lets you tell it what kind of music you like and returns results that sound like it but are in fact different. Because deep down we just want more of the stuff we already like.

Vator.tv

Vator.TV is a place where entrepreneurs can share their ideas with the rest of the world through video.

Study Stickies

Study Stickies allows you to better understand and remember books (both printed and online), videos, podcasts, online documents, etc. In particular, you can use the service to add notes to your textbooks without using (real) stickies or marking them up in any way.

Mock Up My Tattoo

Mock Up My Tattoo is the first online service that allows people to see what their favorite tattoo would look like on them before any permanent artwork on their skin! Have you ever wished for a tattoo service that allows you to see how your new tattoo would look like before spending over $100 getting it done? Well, Mock Up My Tattoo is here to take the guess work out by allowing you to see your tattoo design on your own photo!

Meshly

The easiest, fastest way to post links to your personal space as well as stay in contact with like-minded community members.

Flektor

Flektor allows you to quickly and easily create, remix, and share your photos, videos, with others via email, on mySpace, or in your blog.

Daily Comedy

DailyComedy.com is the first and only comedy-specific social networking website.

AmeriTown.com

AmeriTown.com is the best place to add, edit and review everything in America. We make it easy for you to share your opinion about anything on your mind.

SuTree

SuTree is a social bookmarking site that aims to be the "Digg" of e-learning. The site lets users bookmark and organize free video tutorials, video lessons, video how to and DIY from all over the web.

PetPalio

PetPalio is the first website to help you find a match for your pet, whether it be for breeding, information, companionship or just as a friend. The intention of starting PetPalio is to enable pet owners connect with other pet owners that has so far been quite a task.

Listingly.com

Listingly combines the power of desktop surfing and the flexibility of mobile computing to create the complete listing solution. Use all the bells and whistles to create, manage and share lists at home and access them anywhere through the light mobile friendly login.

linkmybox.com

linkmybox.com is a shareable Profile Aggregator that lists all your personal Websites, Social Networks, Blogs, Contact Info, Photo Albums and other Profiles in a box. Plus: People can leave a message in your box (this is something between a guestbook and reputation system).

Invoiceplace

Create professional tax invoices, quotes and receipts - perfect for contractors, consultants, freelancers and small business. Features include: - Multi-currency support. - Print in PDF or Microsoft Word format. - Email directly to your customers. - Taxable and non-taxable line items. - Discounts on individual line items. - Postage and handling (with tax). - Partial payments/retainers.

Contactify

Contactify allows you to easily create a contact form. From there they can send a message straight to your inbox - but you never have to reveal your email address. The contact form has a security code so reducing the chance of receiving spam. Contactify saves you having to put your email address online, just use your contactify link, post it on blogs, forums, social networks, anywhere!

YourSharade

Sharade is the digital face for your real stuff. With your Sharade, you can organize, sell, and share the things in your life: from sorting your books and movies on a virtual shelf, to browsing your friend's new clothes, your Sharade frees your stuff and connects you with your friends.

Vidoop

Better login security with none of the expected hassle. Vidoop Secure™ is an innovative login technology that eliminates passwords and is effective against prevalent forms of hacking. Vidoop licenses its login authentication solution for use on your website and provides it at no cost to OpenID users at myVidoop.com.

Tabber

Tabber is an online social address book.

Swivel

Swivel is a place where curious people explore data — all kinds of data. Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.

LessAccounting.com

Is your job title Accountant? Probably Not. Take your Quickbook and Peachtree software and kiss it goodbye. Less Accountingâ„¢ offers simple tools for small businesses. Less Accountingâ„¢ saves you hours every week and money at tax time. Your time is better spent doing what you do best. Quit wasting your valuable time trying to be an accountant.

VBS.TV

VBS is an online broadcast network. We stream original content, free of charge and 24 hours a day. We carry a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, and the best music in the world. People have used words like eclectic, smart, funny, shocking, and revolutionary to describe VBS, but we kind of just snapped our fingers in their faces and went, “Whatever. Tell us something we don’t know.”

TeacherTube

Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

ImageChef

Create custom images in moments and send to friends.

Graphita

Upload and customize your photos.

Votigo

Votigo.com is a social contest site where anyone can create their own customized video or photo contest and use it to promote their band, business, club, event, or just for fun.

Swidget Labs

A company focused on developing widget solutions built upon the philosophy of simplicity and ease of use.

MiniBoxs

MiniBoxs is a very vivid RSS aggregator that presents its users with a simple way to get updated with news and content from around the globe in a wide variety of topics. MiniBoxs is an easy way to familiarize yourself with a handful of popular blogs, Internet magazines, social networks, web2.0 sites, leading video and image sharing communities and other top rated gems that are often missed by the general surfers community.

goGOOROO

goGOOROO was created with a simple goal: To help organize and make sense of the vast ocean of video programming on the Internet. goGOOROO is a one-stop destination that allows you to collect all your favorite broadband channels, save them as favorites and share them with friends.

LeapTag

LeapTag is a news reader and content discovery tool that learns what you like and enables you to find news, blogs, books and more that match your individual interests.

CreativePro Office

Stop letting Outlook and Excel run your business. If you're an independent designer, developer, consultant or manage a small distributed team, take a look at CreativePro Office. It's the most complete set of online office management tools you're likely to find at any price - and it's completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, quotes and events from one web-based application. CreativePro Office is well suited for both independant professionals and small teams of graphic designers, programmers and web developers.

Funny or Die

Funny or Die is the collaborative effort of people in Silicon Valley and in Hollywood to create a venue for accomplished as well as aspiring comics to try out new ideas, experiment and generally have fun. It is expermental and a work in progress and will most likely evolve to meet the needs of its performers and their audiences.

WizIQ

Find online teachers and tutors in your local area.

StuffSafe

If you're a home owner or renter, a secure inventory of your possessions should be a big part of your theft or disaster recovery plan. Having an up-to-date home inventory will help you get your home owner insurance claim settled faster, verify losses for your income tax return and help you purchase the correct amount of insurance. Creating a home inventory can be a challenge. StuffSafe makes it easy by offering you... - No restrictions You can add as many locations, rooms and items to your inventory as you need. - Reports & downloads Download your entire home inventory to your computer at any time. Or create reports in PDF, HTML and Excel format. - Peace of mind Your home inventory is stored securely online - easily accessible by you or your insurance agent in the event of theft or disaster.

setdot

setdot is a fun and easy way to manage and plan events online.

Jalipo

Jalipo is an online marketplace for TV and video.

ekudoz

Give a well deserved kudos to someone you know. In return, these people give kudos to people they know, and so on and so on. When one person sends a kudos to another person, the person who receives the kudos needs to "pay it forward" and send kudos to two other people, before finding out who sent the first. Then each of the two new kudos recipients need to send it to two new people, and so on and so on.

Qlique

Qlique is the next generation of social computing. Live, real time, location-aware. Merging the online and real-world experience. Chance encounters, social games, breaking the ice, college rivalries, creating content, self expression. Jump into what’s happening around you. Create your Qlique.

Ohmybuzz

Ohmybuzz is a shopping and consumer platform available to everybody, individuals and professionals alike.

Bountee

Shop, create, and sell t-shirts.

Ufem

Weblogs for women.

CSS Collection

A list of sites that showcase what can be done using CSS.

Web2Submitter Review – Social Bookmarking Software

Sat, 3 Feb 2008 04:31:01 GMT

posted by msn_town

Are you looking for Web2Submitter Review? Then you are in the right place .I am going to give you most honest reviews on the net .
So what is Web2Submitter ?Web2Submitter is an interesting piece of software that I have got my hands on recently. It is created by Jack Humprey, the author of authority black book. Web2Submitter is basically an semi-automated social bookmarking software that runs on your desktop and bookmarks the major authority Web 2.0 sites such as Digg, Newsvine, Propeller, Plime and more.
One of the biggest problems with social bookmarking is that it is tedious and time-consuming to go to each site and fill up the forms. Often times, it is repetitive therefore a software such as Web2Submitter can automate many tasks such as processing logins, auto filling the forms on web2.0 sites etc.
I’ve been able to save hours from manually entering information into each web2.0 site. Now, it takes me about 10 – 15 minutes to submit to all the web2.0 sites included in Web2Submitter.
How this tool will help you? Well posting articles or comments to authority sites will dramatically increase your website rankings ! Even you can get huge amount of traffic direct from authority sites !
How Web2Submitter will increase your website rankings in search engine? You know that you need to have a lot of back links to your website to get top positions in search engine . This tool will get you thousands of back links from high PR websites .
You can watch full video Web2Submitter review here

MySpace Video Player

Sun, 14 Jan 2008 17:26:00 GMT

posted by stagegold

With 185 million registered users, MySpace is one of the most popular social networking site on the web. It's no wonder those numbers generate a lot of interest by companies pursuing applications that can be adopted by MySpace users. StageGold spent a lot of time developing its MySpace video player combining multi-functions with ease of use.

StageGold users can search MySpace's 60,000 new videos per day directly from the website. Users can embed videos from anywhere on the web on their MySpace page using the StageGold player. CinemaForge allows MySpace videos to be directly downloaded.

Welcome to our blog about How to use Web 2.0 in your library

Thu, 15 Dec 2006 12:25:55 GMT

posted by Philbradley
This is our group blog, which is unique because any Zimbio member can post an entry to it. Some members blog about recent news and trends related to the portal topic, others recount relevant personal stories. You can also comment on and rate existing blog entries, to voice your opinion and to help the community identify which members and entries on the portal are must-reads. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this portal? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own blog entry!

Newb Seeks to Become an Official MLA Conference Blogger

Mon, 15 Apr 2008 22:23:48 GMT

posted by bbmclibrary

The MLA has recently announced that they will sponsor 15 Official Conference Bloggers for their May 2008 conference in Chicago. I am attempting to become one of those fifteen. I am currently enrolled, as many are, in MLA’s Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools CE course. This course is absolutely fascinating. The discussions have been meaningful, engaging and the topics are applicable to my job. I have created 3 blogs now, including this one, one for the library, and a family blog. However, I still am a rookie at this and have much to learn. That is why I want to be a “blogging star” for the MLA conference.

If I am put in the spotlight it will require me to sharpen my Web 2.0 skills and put on my best performance. It would force me to jump out of my comfort zone and take professional risks (Kraft, 2008). I am also new to the field of medical librarianship and I think it would be nice to have at least one of the fifteen official bloggers be a newb (pronounced new ‘bee). Conference attendees could gain a perspective of what it is like for a newcomer and veterans could reflect on their first-time experiences as well as relate, provide guidance, and give advice on the blog to those trying to navigate the conference for the first time. Other first-timers would love to have representation of their group in the midst of the “official bloggers.” I think it would be encouraging to them if they knew their opinions mattered and are recognized.

Now I don’t claim to know everything or be the best at blogging, writing, medical librarianship, or in fact anything; but I can promise that at the MLA 2008 Conference in Chicago, I will be equipped with a laptop, a camera, and an eagerness to learn and share.

References
Kraft, M (2008). Risk is a Four Letter Word That Isn’t Always Bad. Retrieved on April 15th, from the World Wide Web at: http://kraftylibrarian.com/2008/04/risk-is-four-letter-word-that-isnt.html