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May 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Fun, Time Wasters, Web 2.0, Web Apps
May 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Fun, Time Wasters, Web 2.0, Web Apps
May 5th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, Web Apps, social media
Oh dear lord. As if we didn’t already have enough with the war between Twhirl and Alert Thingy (and Feedalizer and bTittleTattle!), here comes yet another AIR app for Twitter/FriendFeed users. This one is from the makers of the Firefox extension, MySocial 24×7, and, like the extension, the app focuses on consolidating your social […]
April 22nd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Apps
You may have seen my post over on Read Write Web about the concept for Twitpitches. I see that some companies are starting to use this system and I thought I would feature a few I thought were interesting:
Tweetlater: This Twitter app lets you schedule tweets for a later date/time so it appears that […]
April 15th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Facebook, Mobile, T-Mobile, Video, Web Apps, social media
This looks interesting - JuiceCaster, a mobile broadcasting app, is about to arrive in Java app form on T-Mobile phones. The service, which is also available as a WAP site at m.juicecaster.com, lets you post media - like camera phone pictures and videos - and send them to your friends’ phones. You can also […]
April 15th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Storage, Web Apps
Syncplicity is a new web service designed to let you sync files between computers via an easy-to-use desktop client program. The service also lets you access the files from a web browser if you are away from your computer. In many ways, Syncplicity is very much like Microsoft’s FolderShare or the pay service SugarSync.
However, Syncplicity […]
March 26th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Web Apps, social media
I just saw on Mashable that I’m getting credit (or blame?) for starting the whole "The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere" discussion regarding FriendFeed, but they note that it was also Allen Stern on CenterNetworks who helped push the discussion forward with his blog post on the topic which generated a pretty big FriendFeed […]
March 19th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Useful, Web Apps, Web/Tech
Brijit is an online community that offers up the world’s best long-form content by boiling it down to 100 word abstracts. You can then peruse the abstracts to determine what you what to read, listen to, or watch. The sources Brijit pulls from can be stories, like magazine articles, but they can also be radio […]
March 17th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Web Apps, widgets
Love widgets? Can’t get enough? Then check out this collection of widget web sites for finding and/or creating your own widgets for use on your site, blog, social network, or desktop. Did I leave any great ones off? Let me know in the comments!
Search/Directories
Cleverhippo - widget search engine
Flickerdna - flickr widgets
Goodwidgets - […]
March 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Web Apps
SproutBuilder is a service that provides an easy way for anyone to build web content like widgets, banners, mashups, videos, music, photos, RSS feeds, calendars and even web sites. The SproutBuilder app is a WYSIWYG Flash/Flex-based editor where users can used included tools to create "sprouts," (not widgets!) of web content. In addition, the service […]
March 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging, Mobile, Video, Web Apps
Bambuser is a new service that lets you broadcast live video from your mobile phone onto your website or blog. You can also use a web cam, but that’s not nearly as cool.
To get started with this new, alpha service, do the following:
Install the bambuser application on your phone. Download it here or point […]