The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them!
The simplest way to add Socializer to your website is using Javascript. You can also use PHP.
You can also use the bookmarklet and simply drag the provided link to your bookmarks toolbar, and then while surfing, click it to bookmark the page you are on. It’s that easy!
Check out The Socializer | via Waxy
Gert told me Riya is open for signups. Riya will be unstable, s..l..o..w, buggy, inaccurate, and could lose some (or all) of your tags. It may also be unavailable from time to time and may slow down your machine while uploading your photos (they recommend you upload overnight). Riya is in beta phase, which means that they are all about learning from you to get better. Riya needs you to give them loads of feedback and give it often so they can improve over time. Riya is a Photo search engine that is best used on personal photos of friends and family, not on public pictures you got from the internet somewhere.
Warning: Riya will only work if you
• Have high resolution JPEG’s with date and time from your camera
• Use digital photos of your family and friends not celebrity or web images
• Have many photos of the most common people in your photoset
• Don’t give it scanned photos, photos with bad lighting, or profile shots of faces
• They recommend you upload at least 1000 photos w/ full albums
Riya will take about a day to upload 4000 photos.
Requirements:
Learn more about Riya
Read the Riya Blog
Use the backdoor signup and skip the invite-only. | also on InsideGoogle
This Wordpress plugin adds live chat functionality to your Wordpress blog. Your visitors can chat with eachother right in your website without refreshing their browsers. It’s almost like chatting on an instant messenging network! And it’s all powered by AJaX. This plugin makes it very easy to integrate the interactivity. Just follow the simple instructions and you should be okay.
This is cool. I’m actually still looking for the best ‘talking tool’ to integrate in my project, and I’m getting closer…
Get this plug at Jalenack | Thanks Dave
The Blog Influence tool rates your influence in the blogosphere. In true 2.0 style, it delivers a nice badge you can put on your blog and lists up some links to site where you can dig deeper in your ego search.
Blog Influence shows links to Google Blogsearch, Technorati, BlogPulse, IceRocket, the regular Google, Yahoo, Ask & MSN Search to track your buzz. The link graphics come from IceRocket, BlogPulse and TouchGraph.
The tool isn’t really reliable, I get results that vary between 35.000 and 9200… hmmm. Well it was fun.
Check out your BlogInfluence
Pixoh allows you to edit an image right in your browser. After you finish cropping, resizing or rotating your image (which you can “upload†right from a web address), you can download it in a variety of formats… or directly save it to Flickr. [Philipp]
Key Features:
Top Feature Requests:
Thanx, Wim L.
Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips. The look and feel of the site has a lot from Flickr, and I totally missed the launch, which was in mid February, 2005. We’re over a year later, and I’ve still not seen the site pop-up when people talk about video sharing. Weird, because it looks really solid and seems very easy to use.
Big difference with YouTube is that all the clips are converted to .mov (QuickTime files) and so they’re very easy to save and pass on.
The site was created by Jakob Lodwick, and was brought to life when he teamed up with Zach Klein. They both work at Connected Ventures, the company responsible for CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, The Big Shocker, and AllDumb.
(If you don’t know any of those sites, you should ask your kids about them.)
The usability of vimeo is very high, it’s very sec and (compared to YouTube) very clean and not so bloated with options. Not that I turn away from YouTube, but the possibilities have grown so fast and are so tucked away in the site that it’s become quite difficult to work with them.
Related:
YouTube, Veoh & Other Video Archives
SlashLinks is a tool developed by Eyebeam R&D for automatically mirroring links from the popular social-bookmarking service del.icio.us to your personal or institutional website. Posting, tagging, and management still occur within the del.icio.us interface, but design and layout can now be fully customized on your mirrored site.
SlashLinks was motivated, in part, by the desire to keep the intuitive URL navigation provided by del.icio.us and common with blogs while allowing for design/layout customization to suit the user’s taste. Additionally, when republished on your own site, all of your links become accessible to search engines — effectively casting your vote for what other sites or pages deserve top placement in search results.
I thought the tool would also let you search your own archives, based on the tags, but in fact it searches only for the links you’ve tagged, not for previous posts.
What’s very cool about it is the date/time notation, allowing you to browse by day. Funky tool. Very remarkable about this is that it seems to set the first steps into the direction of private 2.0 applications. I’ve been nagging about this shortcoming in the 2.O technology a little while ago, because all of the applications are based on sharing data in public, so there isn’t really a corporate use possible, unless you want to share all your internal knowledge with the rest of the world.
With the slash/links, you can host your own del.icio.us-alike bookmarking tool, but it still mirrors. What I’d really like is 2.0 tools that can be integrated in restricted public groups (e.g. inside one company). We’re halfway there.
Thanks, Tom
New on Virtual Earth: you can select a car and drive around on the map. The images show the actual scenery while you move your car around through the streets, as if you were really there. Awesome ! How long before we see advertisement placed on this ‘real life’ footage?
The street advertisement is already there, it should be easy to make some changes and make it custom.
This is a splendid way to promote your store or service. Think of all the opportunities and sales possibilities that come up now. Suppose you’re browsing the map and ‘drive’ by a store, you could see a small image indicating an ad and then see the ad if you turn towards that store.
Check out the Windows Live Local and test the Virtual Earth technology preview.