Spinlets Private Beta - The First Exclusive Glimpse
May 24, 2007
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I have previously written about Spinlets and I promised I would tell you more once I gained access to the private beta. Well that just happened, so here is a fresh look at Spinlets.com current and future features.
Interested in beta testing?
Let me start out by saying this looks very promising. I know I tend to say that a lot, but I’m a Web 2.0-applications-coholic. I only write about start-ups and betas that make me happy and your day easier or funnier. Anyway Spinlets is still in private beta, but I will still reveal a couple of details. If you are interested in testing Spinlets contact them directly on Spinlets.com.
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A Few Web 2.0 Sites to Make Your Life Easier
May 23, 2007
Don’t you just hate it? You hear a song somewhere, but you don’t know who made it, or there is a certain melody in your head and you can’t remember the name of it. Well fear not. iden.tify.us is here to help you find people, that can help you identify that song or melody. It works really simple. You can get your song identified in three ways:
- You can upload the mp3, supply as much information as possible, tag it and put it into a genre.
- Link to an online video using the embed code from YouTube or another video site, supply as much information as possible again, tag it and put it in a genre
- If you haven’t got any of it you can simply describe it as best you can and hope the best.
The other Web 2.0 site I will show you today is Sclipo. Don’t know how to make the perfect beard shave, how to make caramel chicken, give a professionel massage or extract backgrounds from images - Sclipo has the answer. It features user-submitted tutorials on every possible topic. You can either use tags or the search function to find useful (and sometime useless) tutorials.
Do you know any other websites that makes your every day easier?
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A Quick List of Startups
May 19, 2007
I just wanted to give you all a quick list of startups to sign up to. They are all currently in beta.
Sputtr - All the right searches on one page. Instead of going to different sites to search, you can do it from one
E-Learning Community 2.0 is a marketplace for Internet Entrepreneurs to grow their info business to the next level by leveraging the power of social networking offered by Web 2.0.
LineBuzz adds inline comments to your blog. Installing 1 line of javascript lets your readers select text in your blog entries and post comments inline.
Tripbase is a travel website that gives you unbiased recommendations about where to go on your next trip based on what you like.
Twiigs is the place to get the pulse of the world on any topic. Vote on the polls that interest you, or post one of your own. If you like to vote - this is the place to go.
Scrybe is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to todays lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way.
Simple solutions for some age old problems. It is very anticipated.
Openserving extends the essence of the open source model – free software and content – to all aspects of web-based computing. Popular existing web communities can create their own open-content, collaborative, blogging systems.
Did I miss anyone? I know I did - there are plenty out there. Tell me about your beta-site or project.
Argh…Batteries are running low in my keyboard…
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Spock - The People Search Engine
May 17, 2007
A few minutes ago I got an invitation to join the beta test of Spock. Naturally I signed up. I have 3 invitations that I am giving away, but please read this article first.
Let me give you a brief description of Spock.
Spock is the people search engine,you can search for a specific person - nothing new there. More importantly, you can search for a class of person, say actors or politicians or people associated with a topic like Victoria’s Secret (no pun intended Spock developers). Spock created tags for any person it finds from Wikipedia, IMDb.com, forbes.com, people.com, you name it and social networking sites like Myspace, Linkind, Facebook and even the person’s own homepage. Users can also add their own tags and vote on existing tags to strengthen the association between the topics and people.
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Giving Away More Joost Invitations and Invites
May 13, 2007
I have around 996 invites that I’m giving away for free!
Drop me a comment and I’ll send it to you as soon as possible.
Update: David Lumerman has written usability test on Joost. Read the Joost usability test.
Update II: Peter at Turbino is giving away Joost invitations too. He has given over 170 invites out.
Update III: I have 800 invites left.
Update IV: 778 invites left. So there are plenty left.
Update V: 727 invites left.
Update VI (07.07.07): 600 invites left.
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Giving Away Joost Inviations
May 7, 2007
I’ve been a Joost beta tester since autumn and from time to time I get several beta invitations to sent out.
So right now I have four invitations waiting to be mailed. Until now I’ve given them to my friends but I thought I would try to give some away through my blog.
So the first four to post a comment will get an invitation, that shouldn’t keep you from commenting though since I will get a new bunch of invitations again.
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Introducing Microsoft Tagspace
April 18, 2007
Tagspace* is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep and sweet dreams by enabling you to be better informed, better connected, and more productive. The more you use Tagspace, the more you'll wonder how you survived for so long in the cramped quarters of your Web browser's Favorites folder.
WARNING: TAGSPACE IS ADDICTIVE. REPEATED USAGE MAY CAUSE INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY.
*Tagspace has been shown to be effective in helping to prevent and reduce memory decay.
**No animals or software engineers were harmed in the making or testing of Tagspace.
For more information about Tagspace, see:
Screencast (direct stream): intro2tagspace.wvx
Screencast (on MSN Soapbox): intro2tagspace.wmv
Text Overview: Tagspace Beta Refresh Overview
Product Roadmap: Microsoft.Community Today and Tomorrow (…because this is just the beginning.)
Tagspace: In the News
Source: MSDN Blogs
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Early Prototype Of FireFox Coop Released
April 7, 2007
More news about Mozilla Coop from TechCrunch:
Firefox’s exploration of bringing social networking features into the browser has moved forward a step. There is now a very rough prototype of “Coop” available as a Firefox Add-on that tries out some of the ideas discussed on the Firefox Labs wiki.
The Add-on can be downloaded here. Only early adopters who want to see what Firefox is up to will be interested in trying this out - for now it simply pulls some basic Facebook functionality into the browser.
But it does show what the product might eventually look like. The Add-on prompts you to log into Facebook. It then pulls all of your facebook friends into the sidebar. You can share any link, photo or video with a friend by simply dragging it into their picture.
I’m looking forward to watching this develop. Screenshots of the Add-on are below.
Source: TechCrunch
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Keep Track of Your Friends with The Coop - Social Browser
April 4, 2007
I've previously mentioned Flock on this page. I use it to upload pictures to Flickr and to manage a couple of other blogs like bdfritid.dk and pfvejle.dk
I found the below mentioned piece of information on Techcrunch (yes its my favourite site)
Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of the mockups created by Mike Beltzner (see above) suggest a significant overlap in the two products.
In fact, Coop even has an example screen shot of Flock on the wiki page describing the product, along with the description “The design will likely resemble [formerly of Flock] Chris Messina’s mockup for “People in the Browser”, with a horizontal bar containing avatars for a user’s friends, and icons overlaid on those avatars to indicate the presence of new content.”
The Coop product will allow Firefox users to “subscribe” to friends in the browser, bringing those friends into a sidebar. Those friends can share content and web pages with you (receive content from you, and send content to you).
Adding a friend will mean getting access to a broad array of their published web content. Content will be pulled from that person’s Flickr photo feed, del.icio.us tag feed, MySpace status , YouTube favorites, etc. When you want to share content with that user, you simply drag it into their avatar (see mockups below).
Source: Techcrunch and Mozilla
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Microsoft Expression Design Beta 2
March 19, 2007
We are pleased to present the Beta 2 release of Expression Design. This version supports the Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Release Candidate, and we have enhanced the XAML Export with live preview feature so that it is compatible with the latest version of Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0.
Please continue to help us make a better product. Send your feedback to us via our discussion forum or our product feedback center as you encounter bugs or usability issues, or if you simply want to request a feature. We look forward to your continued feedback!
Installation Instructions
Installing on Windows Vista™:
Download and install Expression Design.
When prompted to enter a product key, just click the Continue button for a 30-day trial from the first installation of the Beta, or if you want to enable the 180-day license, please enter the product key as follows: YVJ79-XQ8CM-8YKWF-GKRKH-83X8G.
If you’ve already entered this product key for a previous installation of Expression Design (Beta 1), then you will not be prompted to enter it for this release.
Installing on Windows XP SP2:
Install .NET Framework 3.0 first before attempting to install Expression Design. Download and install Expression Design. When prompted to enter a product key, just click the Continue button for a 30-day trial from the first installation of the Beta, or if you want to enable the 180-day license, please enter the product key as follows: YVJ79-XQ8CM-8YKWF-GKRKH-83X8G.
If you’ve already entered this product key for a previous installation of Expression Design (Beta 1), then you will not be prompted to enter it for this release.
Download at source
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