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Hmmmm Dave asked me this past weekend “why the lull in blogging… “ and i don’t know. Things have been busy i suppose. The audio blogging is fun though.
Let’s see what can i post for content? I sent this list out to the team here at work yesterday. We had a brainstorm the other day about how to collaborate with folks now working in texas and california, so the discussion was about collaborative writing tools and well this list was created and then I added other good stuff..
Collaborative Writing Tools
http://www.writely.com/ - currently the most popular collaboration word processor tool out there
http://writeboard.com/ - the other real popular writing tool
http://www.conversate.org/ - group conversation program
http://www.zohowriter.com/Home.do - online word processor, share documents
http://www.jotlive.com/ - live group note taking tool
Web & Usability Sharing like Apps
http://www.jybe.com – this like netlabs, its browse a website together type technology with chat and more
https://www.copilot.com/ - more of a “let me show you what I mean” type software via remote
Meeting Apps
https://www.gotomeeting.com/ - I hear this is the new end all be all webex like site
Project Management & Tracking Applications
http://www.rallypointhq.com/ - brand new, people are buzzin about it
http://www.sidejobtrack.com/ - web based job tracking, for contractors and freelances,
http://zimbra.com/index.html - a big suite of tools
To Do Sites
http://www.trackslife.com/ - used this one for awhile
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ - a popular todo site with reminders
Collective Intelligence & Reviews
http://www.judysbook.com/ - its like angie’s list, but on a google maps, national size scale, cool use of empowering consumers and leveraging their collective voice
http://www.frappr.com/ - another google map experiment site, search by zip code, document your home town, 180,000 people have already
Photo Sharing
http://www.flickr.com/ you cant beat flickr, this is probably the end all be all image site on the net currently, tagging is in!
http://www.slide.com/ - slide rides on your desktop and on the web and continually shows your friends your pictures
Cool New Idea Sites
http://www.bandnews.org/ - band news tracks news dug up from search engines and the blogosphere regarding bands, it can also inform you on the latest from bands such as station 14 (once it knows of course)
http://fundable.org/ is a service that lets groups of people pool money to raise funds or make purchases.
http://www.peertrainer.com/ - its on my “soon to check out list”, I need every bit of support possible to keep me motivated to lose the poundage
http://www.typedown.com/external-01/news/yahoo-wordnews.php - I love sites like this, this one takes top news stories and does a kind of concordance with them creating a kind of visual representation of the data, the bigger the word the more times it appeared on all the news sites, visualization is cool and fun, it’s a unique way to sum up that moment in time on one page
http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/livemarks/ - one of my favorite websites, livemarks shows you bookmarking in real time from delicious users, (delicious is a popular bookmarking site) - what you are seeing in livemarks is real time real people bookmarking sites, it tells you how many people are watching, and what the most popular links have been recently. Why should u care? Well, if yer curious about what people are getting into at the moment, new sites, new services, cool news, anything right about now, that is, livemarks is a good place to go – it is geared more for the techie of course.
http://www.mapbuilder.net/ - this a cool site where you can make your own google map pages, for example, we could map out all of our “experiences” in research around the globe, and give people a way to surf the map, see what we did where and so on, we could even attach images to those map points, audio, video, links back to our site and so on.
http://www.etsy.com/ this was one of the best beta’s of the year, it’s a collaboration buy/sell site for DIY crafters, joo young and Justine, Jeaneen, check this out…
http://www.netvibes.com/ is a dashboard site, more dashboards are coming, google has one, yahoo has one, msn has one, everyone wants to be your home page, your dashboard where you have all the essentials right when you connect.. netvibes is your open source, open module one, its pretty popular on the net, attach your gmail, your price watch, flickr, bookmarks, top news sites and more
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/ - what book should you read next?
http://www.peerflix.com/ trade your own library of content
News
http://www.dailyrotation.com/ - 300 tech site sources all in one page
Collect and Organize
http://del.icio.us/ - great tagging book marking site
http://www.onfolio.com/ - a few of these kinds of programs hit this year, its basically data harvesting, your bookmarks, images you’ve seen, things you like while browsing, whats a better way to remember it all, recall it all later, at the moment I use delicious as my master book marking archive, but some folks think tools like onfolio are the way to go
http://www.flock.com/ - flock is a new browser idea built on top of firefox, its aimed at bringing this tagging concept to a new level, its been talked about heavily in wired magazine, appeared in several biz mags, sign up and see!
Mashups – are site examples where two or more kinds of technology get mashed together to offer a new experience, examples like these show you the power of databases merged with mapping tools online, now think about a mashup of our data findings with enabling technology online like this, could create some cool deliverable materials.
http://www.chicagocrime.org/ - the most compelling mashup this year, Chicago crime, tagged, sorted and google mapped