Library clips

TellFriends - social bookmarking and voting friend network, also see hypeit, heeii and others

Jangl updated - formerly a widget for your blog where people could leave a voicemail via an ID number. Now you can go to the website and enter the email of the person you want to contact, in return you get a number to call to talk or leave a voicemail which will be emailed to the person along with a number to call you on…this could become a voicemail or VOIP social network. [via TC]

attendio - an event social network, see the others in this game. [via m]

keepm - a new contact manager [via m]

CoRank - create your own hosted memedigger, also see Pligg (not hosted) and crispy news (eg.)

How often do you send and receive emails containing cool web links, funny video’s, presentations, etc….

Sharing links; first it was by composing an email, then it was from an email feature in your RSS Reader (but then you can’t share links you find outside the reader), then it was from your social bookmarks (but the del.icio.us links for you only works if all parties use del.icio.us).

There are various ways to share links via; IM, surf and chat tools, a blog post footer, but this post is more about an easier way to send links to your contacts, and of late the browser seems to be the most obvious choice.
As a matter of fact I think lots of services should incorporate contacts plug-in, so when ever I come across a link I can easily send it to my contacts, whether I’m inside my RSS Reader, email, IM, social network, etc…

Of late we have seen lots of services and social networks pop-up that are designed to share links with friends within and outside of the network. The idea here is more on the ease of sharing links, eg. dragging them to an avatar.

As mentioned I want to be able access my contacts list and contact groups from my browser and drag in the link/s.
This is the idea of ShareThis (formerly share2me), it will harvest your contacts list from various services you use (or add them manually), and recipients can receive the links via email, IM, or a notification within the network itself, and even as messages in other social networks.
Now if you add your own profile from the available social networks or add your own email, you can remind yourself of stuff, why not add posting to social bookmarks, publishing to your blog, etc…

It doesn’t seem to have SMS notification, but how about Particls (formerly Touchstone) type of delivery choices like a pop up sticky note right there on your friends PC (I guess they would have to be registered with ShareThis for intimate delivery).

Only issue I have with ShareThis so far is that I can’t view my contacts list…they are using Plaxo for the contacts module (good partnership idea), so if I sign up I will be able to access my contacts. But regardless I still want a link to Plaxo within my profile or better still view my contacts within ShareThis.
Also when you share a webpage I’d like to choose from a drop down list of my contacts, as I can’t remember who I have in my contacts list…and of course contact groups would be great.

I’d like to plug-in the ShareThis button into my RSS Reader, just as you can into the footer of my blog posts, not to be confused with ShareThis wordpress plugin.

NOTE: not sure if you can share links with other ShareThis users, it seems you can’t as it really isn’t a social network yet, where you can add friends or see their profiles, or leave comments to a particular item and your profile in general…although it seems I can leave comments to one of my own items.

And of course you get an archive of all these links you have shared, probably want to tag them or search them for future retrieval…hope this is coming soon.

As long as you can install the button on any PC, you will be able to share links…I can see ShareThis maturing into a ultra handy product, I feel it will become another regular tool into my everyday toolkit, and that’s rare that a tool sticks to being used everyday.

I posted on a similar idea for a ping social network, instead of sending an email or IM, it sends a new item in you contacts user space (notification could be by email , IM, etc…).
The difference is that you can ping them as you publish a blog post and as you comment in other blog posts, ie. when you hit send your blog post or comment is published and at the same time you have also pinged your contacts.

Here’s a list of recommended links services…ShareThis shines as it has the killer feature of various delivery methods and sending to contacts that aren’t registered with ShareThis.

Stumble Upon

The Coop

Hypeit (now Spokeo)

PluralList

Tubes

ShareThis

bzzster

yoono
[ADDED 31/05/07: Yoono is a download app that seems to have the same features as ShareThis, ie. send to contacts that aren’t registered with Yoono, different types of delivery, and even posting to your blog…see comment]

Tellfriends

Services more oriented to recommendation are Heeii and Blogrovr…me.dium, chatsum, others online and Reko recommend people. I guess most of the profile aggregators or lifestream type of services double up as expert locators that have people recommendation.

[ADDED 22/07/07: FeedEachOther has link sharing, as well as several lifestream services, such as ProfileFly and Comwat.]

[ADDED 30/07/07: Siphs]

[ADDED 21/09/07: Streamy : Social Network RSS Reader, lifestreams and attention groups]

[ADDED 21/09/07: Siphs : link blogging and sharing]

[ADDED 21/09/07: Google Shared Stuff and other common ways to share]

I posted about Particls a while back when it was called Touchstone, basically it is a personalised information filter and alert service.

A popular use is to input some feeds, OPML or search some keywords, and then adjust some settings…additionally to these manual settings you can let particls learn from you, it learns from your click behaviour and will filter only the information it thinks you like based on the past clicks.

Apart from filtering information it also delivers information according to your attention requirements, whether it’s a ticker, pop-up toast, click trail, sticky note, etc…

particls is not limited to RSS feeds, the idea is for any format type of information to be fed into an adapter and come out the other end.

So what’s new besides the name change?

Right-click menu
- rate items
- action items to places like del.icio.us, digg, sphere, etc…create more.

Tear-offs
- for those ticker items and pop-up alerts that you want to read in a few minutes time, you can tear them and place them as a post-it note on your desktop

Images
- alerts now have images

Auto-Away
- will automatically detect when you’re away from your computer. It will then hold off your alerts until you come back.

Auto-subscriber
- the auto-subscriber can learn which sites you visit most regularly and automatically subscribe to those sites for you.

Persistent searches
- basically like a search feed

You own RSS feed
- similar to the Google Reader clip blog, you get your own RSS feed that others can subscribe to, or that you could put in a widget so others can see the latest stuff you are paying attention (based on highly rated items).

For the publisher

Just like some widgets services allow you to offer a take away widget of your blog, so does particls. You can offer people a fully branded particls version of your blog that people can download.
This can be re-skinned and turned into a regular particls app, but if it was downloaded from your blog, you get the revenue…that’s an incredibly fair offer.

Triblr - is a p2p file sharing social network, similar are Qnext and others

Purplenova - turn your computer into a web server, ie. every file/folder on your computer gets a URL, where others can access it (stream) from your computer…seems like the webified version of Triblr above.
[via DI]

PageFlakes Pagecasts - PageFlakes has revamped its public pages now called Pagecasts, others in this space are Webjam and Netvibes Universe…the Zimbio topic portal directory formerly had a widget page summary view, but now it has changed to wikizines. See here for similar non-widget based topic pages. [via TC]

BackupBlogOnline - from their website:
“With BlogBackupOnline, users can create a full blog backup, schedule automatic daily backups, restore a blog, transfer a blog to another platform, and export their backup file in RSS format.”
For those that publish blogs on a 3rd party client like Qumana or WriteToMyBlog, will already have a back up…or perhaps you use Word or an Office 2.0 word processor…or even bookmark all your posts on Furl where they are cached.

NewsGator Desktop - system tray pop-up toast alerts for those warm treats, also see Alertbear, Newsplorer, Newzie, Touchstone (now particls), Blerts, NewsGator Desktop Alert

MyBlogLog is a blog network and community, basically you register yourself as a person and register your blogs, people can message you, and add you as a friend, they can also join your blog as a community fan.

So you could describe it as a social network for blogs, but now it’s even more, it is an expert locator based on explicit tags. This means yourself and others can tag your user space, and all your blogs.
Since I’ve only got one blog and I blog about all my interests, the tags for my user space and the tags for my blog are quite similar. I suppose I don’t blog about music, so I could tag myself with some music tags like “electronica”.

At the moment they don’t have a tag cloud so you have to append the URL eg. http://mybloglog.com/buzz/tags/folksonomy

Similar blog network type services as an expert locator are: ziki, others online, explode, blogcatalog…also see selected Lifestream services (these are similar to Ziki).

Ziki allows you to tag others, but this is only displayed in your view, whereas when you tag others in MyBlogLog it’s there on the general view, just hover over a tag and see who tagged that person with that tag…I wonder if they got this discover and reciprocate tagging from Fringe Contacts.

I guess the Technorati Blog Finder is an expert locator, like most of the others it’s only based on self tags.

MyBlogLog blog (that’s a mouthful) tells us that you can change the settings on others tagging you…it can be set at me, my contacts, everyone.

88 miles - timesheet manager and timer, thought I’d mention this since it is a local Perth based service…pseudocoder has more.
Others timesheet managers are: harvest, 1time, tick, toggl, fourteenDayz, intervals, Rotaboard, timeXchange, sidejobtrack, proworkflow, Worktimer, Time59, Freshbooks…
Other timers are: slimtimer, TimeTracker…

minutesinaminute - record your groups minutes, also comes with a shared calendar

FeedBlitz outbrain voting - people that read your posts via FeedBlitz email can now rate your posts (thanks to outbrain), and you get the handy feedback…other rating tools are listed here.

Box - Office on Demand - a plug-in to upload a Word document to Box (online file storage) via the menu bar in MSOffice.
Another feature (following in the footsteps of similar service, Omnidrive) is that you can click on a the edit document function in Box and edit the MSOffice document in Zoho (online office) and save it in Zoho, or save it back to Box in one click.
Basically you can have a web version of a word document stored in box, and still edit it offline, or edit it online with Zoho.
BTW, Slideaware is doing something similar with just Powerpoint. [via DI]

Listigator - lists you can share, lots of these of late (some are private/public, some share via invite, and others are communal wiki-type lists).

BONUS LINK:
The other week I posted about using Bitty Browser to view URL’s that are usually blocked by your work, school, etc…
Well I found that a simple phone browser like Phonifier is even better, only it’s not a widget like Bitty.
eg. New Feature: Article voting, powered by outbrain

Update: Mowser is the best so far.

ghost - a webtop with big ideas, see others…Qnext and others are webtop file sharing

linebuzz - inline comments for your blog, that is a visitor can highlight text and leave comments refering to that text in particular. Others can hover over the text and the inline comments will pop up (you can also reply), the inline comments will also be displayed in the sidebar.
Need to be registered to leave comments, and a user has a space to keep an archive of all their inline commenting…check out their blog to see it in action. If it’s just a regular comment module you are after see JS-kit and others. [via PB]

heeii - a suggestion/recommendation site in the vein of Reko, Stumble Upon, blogrovr…The Coop and others are more a link sharing network. [via m]

50 matches - a meta-search engine for the human indexed web, well at least the social bookmarks/memedigging portion of the web…see others at my post on theagoo.
[via RRW]

Hypeit - formerly Spokeo (a social network RSS Reader). I still see this as a social network RSS Reader, basically you:
1. add your feeds, if you can’t remember the feeds from all the services you belong to, use the form where you can choose from a multitude of services for easy adding.
2. to add friends do the same
- a friend can be a their blog feed, their YouTube feed, etc…
- a friend can also be a person’s account in hypeit, so when you click on a hypeit person you basically see their subscriptions

What they have changed is that you can comment on a story and hype (vote) a story, when you do this, that story will appear on your friends accounts. So it doubles up as a link recommendation social network like Heeii above and others.

ReviewBasics is a service that allows others to review your webpage, documents, photo’s, video’s, etc…plus you can be a reviewer for others.
Simply upload a doc, rtf, pdf, ppt, jpg, gif, png, zip, flv, and more to come, they also link to Zamzar to convert your file to a supported format.

A while back I published a post on document review using office 2.0 documents, a DMS, or specialised review services like Foldera, NextPage2, QuickTopics, PleaseReview, Coventi, Egnyte, Approver (even for blog drafts), also see WriteWith for blog draft review, etc…see Octopz for video.

A lot of these services above do both comment markups, but they also do inline changes and version history, as far as I know ReviewBasics only has a commenting markup type feature.

What would be good is a button to put on my website or blog where visitors could click and give you feedback on the design of your homepage. This way for some situations instead of inviting people for review you can let them just come across your button and markup your website…red pen customer feedback.

[ADDED 29/05/07: Ask and you shall receive, you get now place a button on your blog for others to click on and review your blog design, see an example on this website].

Setdot — latest events network, also see Socializr, Renkoo, Evite, Upcoming, mypunchbowl, skobee, ilcu, EventWax, and even WyaCracker.

Interclue - a web preview similar to Snap. Interclue can also be used as a browser button to get more info about the page you are viewing, and it also has action icons.
I’d like to see this kind of thing for blog posts, just click on the title or footer and from the preview box access information and start an action:
- summary
- statistics
- bookmark submit and popularity
- Technorati Tags
- Sphere related posts
- Chat/comment withvarious 3rd party services
- blog it/twitter it
- email to a friend
- print
- etc… [via RWW]

Desktop On Demand - these webtops are becoming a crowded market, just can’t see myself using one as yet, but I really like the idea of how they move on from the startpage idea to an online desktop with inbuilt web apps like email, file manager,etc…Startpages also have inbuilt apps, but allow you to embed widgets from elsewhere, maybe webtops could be just as extensible. I’d like a webtop where I could choose the web email, IM, file manager, RSS reader, MS Office web equivalents, etc…

TweetVolume - compare keywords visually in Twitter…I’d like this as a graph, like being able to user users, time, location, etc…also see Twitterment.

Second Brain - your online filing cabinet is in 3 sections:
1. synchronise content from social bookmarks, photo’s video, etc…this means you can access your del.icio.us bookmarks, YouTube clips from within 2nd brain
2. Upload files form your PC, where they have their own hosted URL (give your word documents a URL)
3. Create collections and mindmaps

Apparently they are adding new modules like feeds, I’d like to see a notes module.
The great thing is that it is social so you can search content and people, I see it as a combination of services:
- Lifestream or identity content management eg. Stalkr, Mugshot, and also a people search engine based on who has registered.
- file host with widgets eg. box
- lists/collections eg. buzka, Squidoo and others
- mindmaps
[via RWW]

Profy points to Backwardblog, a widget message board for your blog sidebar that allows your blog visitors to post messages, you can follow these with a private RSS feed, or share the feed with others. I suppose you can use it as a public “contact us” facility.
Other ways are a blog chat widget, message box (smilar one’s have post by SMS with texterize) or visitor book, or even a contact form (this is private).

There are ideas for blog owners to use it as a side blog (another method is to re-syndicate an edge feed).

It also says: “A trackback link, which other bloggers can use to add their individual blog posts to your BackwardBlog. “

If this is what I think it is, it says that your Backwardblog has a trackback URL, meaning excerpts of other people’s posts can appear in your backwardblog widget.

This is exactly the idea I had in mind about a year ago, when people want to publish a comment or trackback to a blog in general and not in regards to a blog post, they choose the “About page”.
They either leave a comment on someone’s “About page post”, or write a post in their own blog and have the post appear as a trackback in the “About page” of the blog they are pinging.

I wanted to use it for a further purpose, just say you post something and want to ping your friends in general at the same time as publishing your post. One way is to collect all the trackback URL’s of the About pages of your friends blogs, but over time this can feel like spamming…for a full explanation see my post reverse blog and email blog post pinging.

In my post email and blog comments is a similar situation where when I comment on a blog I want to ping others to let them know, join in, etc…so for this to happen we need a ping address box in a comments form.

Maybe backwardblog could be our ping homepage or widget, as a space where others can ping us to let us know about stuff, the first deal would be a contacts section so we can access our friends ping addresses.

I’m seeing this the same as explicit link sending social networks like ShareThis (formerly share2me), PluralList, The Coop, and bzzster.

There could be a social network for pinging, maybe called “Ping me” or “Ping on Me” (that doesn’t sound nice).

So how it would work is that everyone in the PingMe network has a PingURL, you have an add friends contact list, and maybe you can even group friends (this group could have a spliced PingURL so you Ping once to many people in your contacts).

NOTE: I really don’t know all the technical issues and spam issues, I’m just thinking out loud.

Next time I’m posting on my blog and want to let a few buddies know about my post, I can ping their PingMe URL’s, and an excerpt and link back to my post will appear in their PingMe inbox.

Next time I’m posting a comment on a blog and want to let my buddies know about this comment I’m making, I can ping their PingMe URL’s, and an excerpt and link back to my post will appear in their PingMe inbox.