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May 25, 2007

Roundup : g.ho.st, linebuzz, heeii, 50 matches, Hypeit

Filed under: tools, roundup

ghost - a webtop with big ideas, see othersQnext 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, blogrovrThe 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 : document review

Filed under: blogs, tools

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].

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