Kyolo is a free service making speech bubbling easier than ever.

"Bubbled pictures" are stored on Kyolo's website, and may be sent to friends or inserted into blogs, web pages or forums.

related
BubblePLY - bubbles for you video

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Labels: blog, communication, fun, photo, web_2.0

Dipity takes automated timeline creation to a new level. If you have a Blogger, Flickr, WordPress, YouTube, Twitter or any of the other supported social networking site just enter in your user name, URL or an RSS feed and dipity will do the rest.

http://www.dipity.com/user/webmove/timeline/personal

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Labels: blog, cloud_computing, communication, flickr, networking, sharing, social_software, software, twitter, web_2.0, web_apps

Soup, from vienna based company euphoria, is a tumblelog or microblogging service to post links, quotes, videos, audio and files often in a funny ajax way :). it can aggregate everything you create online in your own style, at your own address with an easy user interface. it's free.

while i try out my soup i'm listening to Saint Privat & Tous Les Jours

http://www.soup.io/

tags: soup tumblelog euphoria

Labels: blog, communication, html, javascript, microblogging, sharing, social_software, software, web_2.0, web_apps

The intents of annotation of webpages were to share knowledge information and to encourage a way of free speech on the internet...
please read also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Most of these application offer browser plugin to share your annotations and bookmarks friendly.
These services use flash- or javascript-based application to grab and cache the ressource to modify and save it for you.




My Nominates are:

1. Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. check out the FireFox add-on and bookmarklet.

2. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, hot in there community today eg.: Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered

3. With fleck.com you can save all your interesting websites online in one place.

4. Mento (new!!) is for sharing links with friends: Smarter than email overload, more permanent than IM, and always just one click away...

5. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web...

6. Write Stickis on any web page. Read what your crowd of friends and bloggers have written right there...

7. With Trailfire you find what you want on the web in an entirely new way. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, Discover trails

8. kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

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Labels: blog, browser, cloud_computing, collaboration, firefox, html, javascript, mashup, mozilla, sharing, social_software, software, utilities, web_2.0

Plurk - another microblogging service, where the response timeline is displayed in a horizontal river interface - is a site which is mostly like Twitter but employs a much different view of status updates and offers multidirectional communication between plukers.

On Plurk the responses are all grouped together - not only for you to see but for your followers to see also.

Plurk is an easy way to chronicle and share the things you do, the way you feel, and all the other things in between that make up your life, with the people close to you.

http://www.plurk.com/user/webmove

other social messaging/micro blogging services are...
jaiku.com
friendfeed.com
twitter.com
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twitterfeed.com feeds your blog to twitter
Feedtweeter has spice for the plurk service

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Labels: blog, communication, friendfeed, messenger, microblogging, sharing, social_software, twitter, web_2.0, web_apps

Iceberg is a highly dynamic web-based application with a wide range of features to offer.
Platform is web-based by using intuitive dhtml interface for all of your applications. it supports a flash based workflow and process generation tool.

Any application can be created using a simple to use "point and click" user-interface.
eg:
Drag and drop form builder
Easily create tabs and lists
Databound dropdown list fields
Searchable lists...

Free Sample Applications are btw, an ERP application, a blogger+AdWords/twitter mashup...and many more...

the service is free for 5 business users and unlimited for non-profit use.

Free Sample Applications are
CRM Applications, Vacation Management,Bug Tracker, Project Management

Here you will find a brief description of each application and a download link.

http://geticeberg.com

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Labels: blog, collaboration, communication, development, mashup, networking, twitter, utilities, web_2.0

Webpage Perfomance Analysis with YSlow tells you why your page is slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.



http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/faq.html

Take a look at the YSlow Podcast and Screencast.

via | tags: yslow firebug web perfomance

Labels: blog, browser, development, firefox, mozilla, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Zemanta is Blogger's little helper. It supports Blogger, TypePad and WordPress actually and trolls the web for links and pictures related to your content you are publishing at the moment.
you can download a firefox extension, which works with your blogger, wordpress or tpepad account.

Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production...The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet

zemanta on vimeo
crunchbase information

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Labels: blog, browser, firefox, html, mozilla, networking, web_2.0, web_apps

Internet Explorer 8 Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix 'n Mash event here on campus yesterday.  Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway.

a lot of options for the product name....

IE 7+1
IE VIII
IE 1000 (think binary)
IE Eight!
iIE
IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet (the marketing team really pushed for this one ;-)
Ie2.079 (we might still use this for the Math Major Edition)


http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/05/internet-explorer-8.aspx

via | tags: ie8 internet explorer update

Labels: blog, browser, networking, social_software, software

Perhaps it was the 8th birthday of blogger, which offers us a new feature, as Orli yesterday posted about it.

Blogger is now able to get and convert your movie files immediately into your blog posts. There is a new icon to upload your files into blogger enviroment....i have not tested it yet, but i hope it also works for ftp publishers.....as i use it.(it makes no sense to upload them to my webspace.)

Its a nice feature for bloggers to uploaded it to the blogspot enviroment, but the youtube player or interface is more flexible and customizable as the good old google player...and btw, can ohter peolple rate your videos, share them? are they collected in google video service? to many question...i must try it out...


update

Blogger has a place where you can test new experimental features: it's called Blogger in Draft and it's available at draft.blogger.com.
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The videos don't seem to be uploaded to Picasa Web Albums and they're not available at Google Video either, so it's unclear how you can reuse them or share them. Blogger mentions that "your videos are kept private and will not be included in Google Video search."

googlesystem.blogspot.com

source | tags: blogger video upload post editor private videos

Labels: blog, google, sharing, video, web_2.0

Dude, I invented the friggin iPhone. Have you heard of it?

With classic nick names like 'freetards' and 'beastmaster' Fake Steve captured an audience of 700,000 visitors to the site and around 50 emails a day.
According to Daniel Lyons, the senior editor at Forbes magazine who maintained the blog, there is no definite plan for the future of the site. 'Mr. Lyons said he invented the Fake Steve character last year, when a small group of chief executives turned bloggers attracted some media attention. He noticed that they rarely spoke candidly. "I thought, wouldn't it be funny if a C.E.O. kept a blog that really told you what he thought?.... continue

news from: nytimes.com, for germans: spiegel.de

via source | tags: fake steve jobs beastmaster daniel lyons ceo blog

Labels: blog

Here you see Stephen Chang, manager of Buyer Engagement at eBay, showing Robert Scoble a new eBay widget called eBay To Go. But unlike the other products we see here this one actually is shipping today! You're getting the first look at it...

This widget will let bloggers and other people on the Internet add things they've discovered on eBay to their Web sites. That way, your readers will be able to see what items are interesting to you right on your blog or Website. It's really cool and Stephen shows me how it's done...



togo.ebay.com/create

via podtech.net | tags: eBay Demo Expo disruptive innovations stephen chang eBay to go web2.0

Labels: ajax, blog, mashup, web_2.0, web_apps

Aminus3 is a photoblog community from atlanta, that offers a photoblog service for anyone with a passion for photography..... we can upload actually unlimited images and it looks like very easy to use.

tags: aminus3 photo community blogs photo blogger

Labels: blog, photo

Digital Inspiration has a post on Getting Noticed by A-list bloggers vs Getting on Digg Front Page which makes a few worthwhile observations.

Digg Traffic - While Digg brings a rush of traffic - it does so from a site with a very broad focus in terms of topics. It also sends the traffic largely from a link with little context around it and in most cases a link that comes from a largely anonymous person.

Blog Traffic - Traffic from another blogger is different on a number of levels. While it might not come in the same numbers - it will generally come with commentary and context, from a site that usually has some sort of a single focus, from a person who has established some level of trust and/or profile with their readers.

read on

via problogger.net | tags: blog traffic internet seo problogger

Labels: blog, web_2.0, web_apps

Performancing.com, one of the favorite stat tracking and compilation sites for bloggers, announced a new advertising program last week.
we have signed up for their program and we've added their code to our site on the front page. when and if an advertiser decides to place ads on our page, they'll appear along the right sidebar. i'm personally not holding my breath, but you never know. there may be a smart advertiser out there...

via addons.mozilla.org | tags: advertising ads program blogger ads

Labels: blog, web_2.0, web_apps

ParentsConnect.com is a new social network for parents that debuted at the start of this month - it was developed by MTV Networks Kids & Family Division, the creators of Nickelodeon. Despite being a brand new community, the site is already full of content and copious amounts of advertising - based on the job ads posted earlier this month (example), it seems they’re paying bloggers to seed the network and get the ball rolling.... read on
our parentsconnect.com profile is here - and feel free to add us to your favorite people list!

via mashable.com | tags: networking social parents social network

Labels: blog, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

A new version of Blogger is in beta!
After an user is allowed to switch in the new blogger application (you'll see a link on your Blogger dashboard when you are able to move.), the new blogger software is capable to:

* Categorize your posts with labels
* Control who can read your blog
* Change the appearance and content of your blog with your mouse instead of HTML

"As we release this version, we're limiting the number of people who can switch over. (You'll see a link on your Blogger dashboard when you are able to move.) Eventually, of course, everyone will be able to transition their blogs to the new version. Thanks in advance for your patience as we roll it out... take a look at the tour." read on

What does this mean for those of us who host on our own servers via ftp? via bloggerDev
Blogger now has a Google Data API. What is the meaning of this? via buzz.blogger.com

via buzz.blogger.com | tags: blogger version api beta

Labels: blog, google, social_software, software

"aside from blogger.com's dominant marketshare, there are reasons why the Blogger mobile widget is an important development.
a quick survey of the currently-available moblogging clients for Blogger highlights an important issue: they are written for PDAs or smart phones (Picoblogger is the only exception, but it runs on only nine types of Nokia handset)...." read more




bluepulse widget supports
- html, so you can link to a site, another post, or another blog from your post
- selection of multiple Blogger blogs
- create a new post, or edit an existing post from the widget and republish it
- save a post as a draft and then edit and publish it from the widget or your desktop later

get the widget on bluepulse.com via bluepulse blog

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