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Grazr preview - like Snap preview but within feed content, that is preview a link as an image when you are reading in your RSS Reader. But it will work outside of your RSS Reader as well, basically you click the bookmarklet, and then shift-click on any link on the page, and you will see a preview of the last 10 posts. NOTE: the link you click on has to be on a webpage that has a feed…see another Grazr bookmarklet.

I have a new idea for Grazr, what about a drop down menu to choose an outline, just like Rollyo and Conduit.

Egnyte - file sharing similar to tubes. [via WW]

Zude - a startpage type of website creator [via mashable]

Tabber - sounds similar to Loopster, a meta-friends page. [mashable]

LinkMyBox - how many can there be, see Tabber directly above. [via mashable]

MySay is micro voice blogging, it does for voice what Twitter does for text…this is not new, check out Evoca and Pheeder.

Create an audio snippet on the phone or record on the web, or upload an mp3 file on the web, also on the web you can type in text which converts to audio. You can add non-MySay friends to your list, so when you create a new snippet they are emailed an update (I think they will have to listen to it on the web).
To listen to your friends dial a number and listen or enter a code of the person you want to listen to.

Notifications are by email or SMS.

Also plenty of widgets, even to greet your blog visitors, see an example on the MySay blog sidebar.

I wish I could email an audio attachment from my phone email, kind of like what Emailtwitter does for Twitter.

And how would I receive updates by email attachment, again an EmailTwitter type solution…I couldn’t even do this myself using an RSS to email solution like Rmail as my snippets, or friends timeline doesn’t have an RSS feed.
Even so would Rmail include the audio enclosures as attachments?

In other news, I’ve asked Rmail if regular images in feed content could be included as attachments in an email (due to my phone email not accepting rich text inline, but it will, as an attachment).

For photo micro blogging, see NowThen, and then put it all together with Yodio.

PageFlakes, the super innovative startpage that has a great RSS Reader and public pages has now introduced a blog flake (widget).

This is starting to feel like a MySpace widget version, only without the social networking part, what I mean is that this may be the new homepage, ie. a homepage for others to surf to that represents you on the web…the new Netvibes Universe is in the same game.

What represents you, what is the new homepage?

In a past post I was asking this question, and still think someone’s blog is their goto homepage, due to the sidebar.

But the new PageFlakes blog widget turns this around, you aren’t limited to the sidebar, you have a page with boxes, and you can also collapse these, thus fitting more on your page, position them as you like, something TypePad added with their drag and drop sidebar’s.

Now with the Blog Flake the original blog structure is no longer, but what I ask is, can you change the size of the blog flake so it becomes the dominant flake, giving the page contextual structure, in that your page is more about the blog, along with some other widgets.

Why doesn’t the Google Startpage (not sure if they have a public option) have a Blogger widget to compete with PageFlakes?

Anyway, a widget format for blogging allows your blog to become more of a homepage.

[ADDED 18/05/07 : I noticed WebJam has a blog module, kind of reminds me of Zimbio Wikizines]

MyQuire - social network for projects…calendar, text editor, doc viewer, file storage and chat…see the tour. [via SW]

Wattpad - a mobile social network based on text posting, now has an app you can download to read books on your phone.
This has pretty much re-focused the aim of the service, instead of a mobile generic blogging service about anything, the content of your text space is more towards story blogging.

What a great idea, in the past I’ve come across blogs that act as a book, posting a daily chapter, I convert the RSS to email, so I can read a chapter a day on my phone email without using the mobile web. If book blogs are a common thing why not bring them into a generic blogging social network like Sponit and others, where it can be featured packed towards the book blogging format.
What about an audio version, a similar service like Evoca could come along focused on audio story telling, get an RSS to audio of the latest chapter… see my media mashup post for more. FeedCycle and textcasting are mildly related.

Grouptivity Discuss - an email collaboration platform has added a new feature where you can add a discuss button next to your blog post, sounds like a closed group version of webride. They also have a bookmarklet so you can start a discussion about any webpage, for real-time chat try Gabbly, 3bubbles or Conversate (I have these 3 buttons at the end of the comments box on my posts). Other ways to send emails without the contained discussion feature are The Coop, share2me, and bzzstr. [via mashable]

DivShare Groups - file hosts are moving fast, Box has sharing of files, networks (handy if you are always sharing with the same people), a public box and widget. Features like the public box and now DivShare groups are taking filing sharing to the public, but because it’s based on a social network it’s upto the user to not share copyrighted files…you can always create a private group.

Netvibes Universe - joined the ranks of PageFlakes and Protopage by offering public startpage, which aren’t really start pages anymore, but moreso Topic Pages…yourminis and webjam seem to be in this same scene. Will FeedRaider and Speedyfeed survive the competition, as what they offer seems to be just one componenet of these other services.

Bonus link:
Keep up with all things Twitter with Twitterati

Amaznode - Amazon related product search, results are presented in a visual network

SharedBooks - print a blog book …also see Blurb.

Clutzr - attention network which records your click stream and recommends similar people, also see attenTV slifeshare. Also reminds me of a combination of Chatsum, Reko, and OthersOnline. [via mashable]

WriteWith - document review blogging, also see Approver [via TC]

AuthorStream - slideshow network for your powerpoint presentations, basically another SlideShare, Scribd will host it but not as a slideshow widget, an online storage service like Box will also host it for you, and OPML Workstation will convert a powerpoint file into an outline widget.