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May 28, 2007

Roundup : 88 miles, minutesinaminute, FeedBlitz outbrain voting, Box - Office on Demand, Listigator

Filed under: tools, roundup

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.

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].

May 24, 2007

Roundup : Setdot, Interclue, Desktop On Demand, TweetVolume, Second Brain

Filed under: tools, roundup

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]

Backwardblog and a PingMe social network idea

Filed under: blogs, conversation, tools

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.

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