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We all know we can make topic RSS radars, the latest being Feedburner Networks, others are Feed Collectors, Blogdigger Groups, well Outside.in is similar but by locality, and the website looks like a neat portal.

Check out Stanford University, and Boston.

Features

- Map
- Tags (view posts by topic…some are even featured in a drop down menu called “topics)
- Blogroll
- Nearest neighbours
- Suggest a blog
- Suggest a story

OK, so this seems like you can’t make your own, but you can suggest feeds and clip stories into the stream.

TechCrunch mentions some others: Smalltown, insiderPages, Yelp.

See more at:
PerthNorg is my local news
What is news 2.0 to you? 2.0

Twitter is a social network micro-blogging services. Where you can send/receive posts from your phone, IM or the web.

nowthen is also a social network, like Twitter the homepage aggregates the latest posts, but it also sections this into time periods, even providing a calendar…I’d like to see a calendar on each user space.

The way it works is you can SMS text or MMS photo/text or email with attachment to your user space, or simply use the web.

Features

- add friends

- send private messages

- tag and comment pics

- text someone from the web

- private/public

(you can override this - by sending your picture to a public or private email address or the text PRIV or PUBL at the start of your MMS.
You can also send pictures for your friends eyes only by emailing a special friends email address or the text FRIE at the start of your MMS)

- Watch a friend via the web or by texting “watch [your friend’s display name]”

- comment from your phone by replying with “COMMENT [friend’s username] [your comment here]”

- also set Silent times for when you are asleep, when you wake you can catch up on all the pics you have missed.

- Groups allows you to organise your friends into groups, this way certain friends won’t get photo’s they are not meant to see.
(to send a pic to a group email group name email address, or text the group name at the start of the MMS.

NOTE: these are not formal groups, it is just organising your friends

- widgets (others can text you from the widget…added to the list.)

Badger allows you to create your own collape/expand RSS widget, these look similar to feed display boxes in start pages.

Basically it is an RSS to Java re-syndication badge, but the fancy thing about it is that you can collapse/expand the box.
For more re-syndication techniques see here, widgets are the go for this type of thing at the moment, but sometimes RSS to Java blends in nicely to your website or blog.

A tool like Badger could be used at the end of each post, to perhaps show Technorati inlinks, or perhaps the latest posts in your blog.
A more static tool is RSS2GIF.

I’d like to create a collapse/expand badge for a bunch of links, I could use these for my blog sidebar…neaten things up. Otherwise follow the 3spots post on java expand/collapse coding.

RSS to the side, what about including text in a badge, great idea if you want to go off in a tangent in a blog post, just expand to read the tangent, or leave collapsed to ignore it, see sidenote for an alternative.
Other similar tools are Bitty, Grazr and LinkBlox (pity this doesn’t collapse/expand).

Back to RSS…

Now imagine if you could have as many Badgers as you like on your own website, well of course you can using a Public startpage like Pageflakes.
Similar display pages are SpeedyFeed, FeedRaider, Bozpages, Njuice, Spotback, yourmini’s, and more.

Here’s my Badger, for some reason my blog has problems handling java.

TimeBridge - a plugin for Outlook to schedule possible times for meetings.

Yatam - a status site or a status for where you will be and a contacts list. A user page consists of where, when, and comment. This way your buddies will know where you are or where you’ll be…also archives history. Great idea, but there needs to be group threading, and SMS, ie. post your status from your phone, and get a friends status by SMS, plus SMS’g your contact or contact list, and replies. Also see Wayacracker to organise an event.

dekoh - seems like a Webtop and more…download apps, and share from your desktop with other dekoh users, they can see a public webpage…has similar features to tubes (sharing from your desktop). TechCrunch has more.

Pickle - similar to cellblock, send media from your phone to a widget, this widget can live anywhere, on your website, blog, etc…I like that multiple people can post to the same pickle. More from Read/Write Web, this fits into my media mashup post.

Divshare Uploader - a plugin to upload a file to your Divshare file hosting service from within a draft blog post and then insert the file into your post with one click (mp3’s come with a portable player).
This is going to be the easiest way to get photo’s and audio inside your blog posts, all you have to do is take the screen shot and save the file on your PC, then from a draft post it is all done…I suppose this eliminates the middle step of loading the file into the file host, then taking the code and putting it in your blog post.

LifeTrackers - set up an account (also sharing features), and send emails and photo’s to your LifeTracker email address, later on do some touch up editing and print a PDF book.
Awesome idea, if you have email on your phone, post photo’s and text and then later on print out your book of thoughts and captured moments…even share the account with a posse of friends. I’d love to share a group book with mobile artists, who shoot spontaneous pictures and text, to later print as a PDF book.
Pickle and Cellblock above have the similar idea.

Todoist - how many to-do services can there be

iReader - via a browser extension browse the content of a link before choosing to clicking it…I wish Snap Preview had this option.
Snap Preview has an icon option, to get a thumbnail just hover over the icon next to the link…problem is that this doesn’t limit to links just within blog posts, blog sidebars are littered with these icons, wherever there is a link there is an icon. How do we get Snap Preview to avoid the sidebar links.

cl1p - copy and pasting content to a web clipboard…new feature is instant message board. Now they need instant chat room like Conversate or what ChatCreator once was (not it is a blog chat widget).

workhack - the most easy to-do list ever, no sign up just start. Items are big and chucky, for each item mark high, mediuim or low, and click done when completed, also see list with done items included. Dar and drop, and bookmark your to-do list in your favourites and try the mini version. Feeds are included. I wish I could re-edit items and change urgency.

DoodleBoard - collaborative drawing with chat.

LinkedWords - similar idea to Technorati Tags, only Linked Words is not a flat based index but more taxonomy based. If you want you blog post to appear under a keyword page at LinkedWords just look for the page and include your post, or create a new keyword page if it doesn’t exist (BTW, it doesn’t have to be keyword pages, create phrase or even sentence pages). I’d rather bookmark my posts at del.icio.us or Technorati Tags or submit them to Digg (not that I do this), as these sites are popular.
One thing I do like is that for every keyword they offer more discovery like similar pages, similar categories and contextual path related categories.

Jubii - like all email clients (Jubii is webmail) the idea is to extend this workspace into a PIM (Personal Information Management) space. Jubii is email with VOIP, IM…these are the 3 usual communication channels.
But hasn’t Google go this covered, I guess Jubii’s 10 GB is attractive.
Another feature is that it can host any type of file, and you can share these files with your contacts list, even share your inbox. Like other email or PIM services I guess to-do, calendar, tasks, notes are next to be added.
Wasn’t Haystack meant to be the personal dashboard of the future.

NOTE: Gmail and Gtalk are integrated, what about adding Google Calendar, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and Google Notebook as an email based PIM system…I guess that’s what Google Startpage is for, but I think email has, and always will be the startpage