Post to Multiple Microblogging Services at Once

HelloTxt is a website that lets you post to multiple microblogging services at once. The supported services include Twitter, jaiku, Pownce, meemi, tumblr, yappd, and more. If you’re a member of more than one of these services, you know that updating multiple services at once can be time-consuming and usually not even worth your time. Although jaiku will display your Twitter posts for you, many services don’t have any aggregation features. Now with HelloTxt, you can quickly microblog to all the services at once.

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Cumul.us is a new website that uses the “wisdom of crowds” in order to to predict the weather. Aggregating weather data from openly available sources and APIs from AccuWeather, Geonames, Google, NOAA, WeatherBug and weather.com, the weather predictions are likely to actually be more accurate than if you were to use just a single forecast. Along with with the weather predictions, you can participate in the community by trying to predict the weather yourself, as well as submitting what you’re going to wear. You can check out what other people are reporting they’re going to wear, too. As you make your predictions, cumul.us goes to the available weather data sources and saves what it was really like that day; then your prediction is scored for accuracy for the conditions and/or temperature. The better your predictions, the higher your user rating. The site’s content floats in fluffy white clouds on a blue background, making this fun web 2.0 “wisdom of the clouds” community worth checking out.

You can’t avoid it…it’s political season! However, there are some websites that make learning more about the candidates, the political process, and the issues more fun. If your normal voting strategy is “I’ll just vote for the lesser of the two evils…”, take some time to explore the world of politics 2.0. A quick list:

Political Base: Follow the money, compare the candidates on the issues, participate in the conversation, wiki-style

Political Trends : keep tabs on how the blogosphere is reacting to the issues

DeclareYourself: a non-partisan site that wants to get 18-year-olds interested in politics. Lets you spread the word with SMS, website buttons, newsletters, and more.

Hostile Crowd: Digg-like political news site

SparkMeter: A political news site that analyzing media bias. Here you can vote on the stories to show how much they lean to the left or right.

essembly: a non-partisan social network that allows politically interested individuals to connect with one another, engage in constructive discussion, and organize to take action.

Vocal Nation is a social network created so that people can share their diverse opinions, and get to the core of the issues. This is accomplished through a democratic rating system, where the community collectively decides what is most worthy of recognition.

Jott the Vote: (covered here) A service that lets you share your views with the presidential candidates by leveraging Jott technology.