You are currently browsing the monthly archive for April, 2008.
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Ad-supported free music service
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“MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!”
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TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. Typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool
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Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.
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“Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.”
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Free tool. Upload your designs in a collaborative workspace. Collaborate, Stakeholders review, comment and markup designs.
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Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground.
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Coming Legislation Makes It a Criminal Offense for Brands to Falsely Represent Themselves as Consumers
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“Tesco will start printing “carbon scores” on some of its goods this week, as part of a Government-funded project to force retailers and manufacturers to reduce the environmental damage from carbon dioxide emissions.”
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Create colorful mind maps online , share and work with friends , embed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map, save your mind map as an image
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“Dimdim is the world’s free web meeting where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees”
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“Express your creativity in a massively collaborative film about music”
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“With Spike Lee’s help, we’re co-creating a film about music and the shared human experience.”
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Hat tip: Infovore.
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The latest project from mySociety…. In development.
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TechCrunch UK integrates Seesmic into their comments. Worth watching to see what happens.
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Online Project Management, Group Collaboration and Document Sharing
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Wrike is an integrated online project management solution that helps you manage projects, teams and businesses.
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“Enterprise level social networking tool - provides employees with individual profiles, automatically populated from their daily work, network visualisations and search so they can connect with the people they need at work.”
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“One billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. 2 million people, mostly children, die from contaminated water… Co-op are seeking to provide safe, clean water to one million people in Africa.”
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Where Jeff states: ‘I think we’re seeing a new definition of “the economy.”’
Kara Swisher, admits that this is a rant and she apologises for the shades (she’d left her normal perspecription glasses at home), but no matter, she’s right.
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“Unlike shows such as Kate Modern, which are made up of sporadic scenes, Chalkhill is real episodic drama in half-hour chunks that enable viewers to engage with characters at a deeper level… While Bebo’s Kate Modern is picking up awards for its eight-mi
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“Watch, buy, and rent Movies and TV shows, stuff from BIG and small producers alike, and Blinks, the ability to clip your favourite part, personalise it with text, and use it as you wish.”
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“A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and
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“Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will grow strongly over the next five years, reaching $4.6 billion globally by 2013, with social networking, mashups, and RSS capturing the greatest share.”
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Creative Examples and Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
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“It turns out that bloggers - along with the rest of the media - are also now able to make use of a special form of privilege, known as “The Reynolds defense of Responsible Journalism.” “
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Facebook launches it’s own analysis/trends tool to users.
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“Search is dead”
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Adobe’s new photo site: Flickr + photo editing tools. Available only in the US at the moment.
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Tim Wright’s latest, most marvellous, creation.
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Creative Synthesis, have created evolutionary software that alters colours, fonts and hyperlinks of pages in response to what seems to grab the attention of the people who click on the site.
A lovely post here from Gavin Starks looking at how this year’s sea-ice has recovered and what that might mean.
He proposes that sea-ice measurement should be part of the weather forecast, which reminded me of a similar proposal made on a recent BBC tv programme - which I can’t remember the name of and I’m unable to find a relevant link - for the inclusion of the position of the Gulf Stream in the daily weather forecast.
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“LifeAt keeps residents in touch with everything their community has to offer, creating private online communities for residential properties.”
Details of how you can get involved here.
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How does a town just disappear?
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“I let you into my life. You let me into yours. It’s that simple. No more than a few minutes a day – I promise.”
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“A comprehensive guide to the last remaining communist state in Europe”
Wiki for Slabovia.tv, by Channel 4. -
Slabovia.tv is an online representation of the Slabovian State Communications Network and its various media output.
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“Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and “soon” is now. We’re thrilled to introduce video on Flickr.”
Huh?
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“Internet ad spending beat expectations last year as companies targeted a growing - and increasingly female-heavy - web audience and tapped into the emerging trend of online TV-watching.”
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It had to happen sometime I guess.
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Yep, Downing Street have their own Twitter account. 1,109 followers and counting.
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“Here’s a novel way to encourage young children to brush up on their oral hygiene – turn a toothbrush into a simple version of a Nintendo Wii remote and turn a chore into a fun computer game.”
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Convert ARTAC files - unique to Sony - to MP3s, with official software. But beware, it doesn’t enable you to convert what it describes as “copyrighted” tracks… yes, tracks that SonicStage itself decided to protect as “copyright” when you decided (quite
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“Simple hosted Issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management software.”
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Keep Projects on Track.Plan your projects and track their progress… activeCollab lets you assign tasks to people, define what is urgent. See what your team is doing and what they need to do, discuss stuff that you are working on and more.
