2006-08-30

Google Books in PDF


Wow this will blow some minds, especially over at the British Library. Google offers pdf download of out-of-copyright books.

Some concerns, though. The pdf format chosen is far from standard and it consists of a bunch of scanned images. This disallows format conversion or text extraction without advanced OCR.

One more effort, google.

2006-08-21

Wink


More content integration. Wink indexes tagged content from Digg, Yahoo MyWeb, Furl, Slashdot, other social bookmarking sites.

Think of it as a google for tags.

It has it's own tagging service.

The quest for the ultimate integration site is open. Who will integrate the web? Well... besides Google.

2006-08-15

Bullshitr mocks web 2.0


Ok, perhaps too much hype around 2.0.

No problem, Bullshitr will give you random indea for your next start-up.

It even links to a logo generator. What else do you need? Well... Investors!

2006-08-10

Zoho Project


If you are one of those that has problems getting organized, perpetual procrastinator, check ZohoProjects.

"Zoho Projects help teams organize their work & track progress. Most of the project management software takes longer time to setup & it becomes a overhead in a project."

It's free for a single project . Time-tracking is its more valuable feature as others are already out there, like file-sharing or wiki documents.

2006-08-06

Rollyo


A meta-search engine is so 2.0. Rollyo allows users to "roll their own search engines" by customising the the sites you want to include in the search engine. Up to 25 sites can be included..

Rollyo also allows users to search pre-defined topical search engines. Tailor-made search in a word.

2006-08-04

MeeboME


Meebo is a web chat company that allows users to access popular instant messaging services on a web page instead of downloading clients..

MeeboMe is a Flash-based chat widget that web administrators can place on a website.

MeeboMe allows a one-on-one communication between a website admin and his visitors.

2006-08-02

Firefox attack


OneStat reports a dramatic increase in Firefox marketshare. In Germany Firefox already has a 39% market share.

"It seems that the global usage share of Mozilla Firefox starts to grow rapidly again after a period of no growth" said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com

2006-08-01

Kickapps


The last cry is content integration and social networking.

Kickapps is a social networking site for admins where they can share all sorts of media.

They offer ten widgets for posting media off-site and detailed data reports on traffic and use.

KickApps platform aims at serving many thousands of websites, big and small, with a hosted, turnkey approach to implementing sophisticated community functionality.