Wednesday, October 25, 2006

What’s Hot in Social Softwr

A to Z (although we are missing some letters)
Steven M. Cohen
Blog: Library Stuff http://www.librarystuff.net/

  1. Ajax

The tool for every social software site for creating interaction

  1. Beta

Browster (a pop-up browser) http://www.browster.com

  1. CoComment – http://www.cocomment.com

Cohen Family Recipes – http://cohenfamilyrecipes.blogspot.com/ (his wife’s blog)

Cute Overload – http://cuteoverload.com (audience contributed)

CiteULike – http://www.citeulike.org (audience contributed can rss feed the results based on keyword search out to a feed reader)

  1. Digg – http://www.digg.com (Allows you to put up a story and then vote on it and then it gets more play as it goes igher on the site. Searchable by keyword and can create RSS feed for keyword search results)

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us (shared bookmarks – audience contributed)

  1. Econsultant – http://www.econsultant.com/web2 (biggest directory of Web 2.0 tools)
  1. Flickr – http://www.flickr.com

Flock http://www.flock.com (firefox, integrated with flickr and other tools – audience contributed)

  1. Gmail – http://www.gmail.com

Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com (project management group tool – audience contributed—includes flowcharts)

  1. Hype (a lot of these social networking tools are all hype and they won’t survive)
  1. Image Editors (online)

http://resizr.lord-lance.com

http://pxn8.com

http://snipshot.com (can edit .pdf’s as if they were photos on this site)

  1. Jenny Levine (queen of social software)
  1. Nothing, couldn’t find anything cool for this letter
  1. Library Thing – http://www.librarything.com

Catalog your books, create tags, find books based on recommendations and on books someone else has that are similar to yours.

Last.FM http://www.last.fm (audience contributed fm station)

  1. Moo http://www.moo.com

Meebo http://www.meebo.com

Media Convert http://media-convert.com

Mojeek http://www.mojeek.com/mps

Muppets Wiki http://muppet.wikia.com

  1. Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com (create your own “my page”)
  1. OCLC (very into social software, go check out webjunction)

Odeo http://odeo.com (audience contributed Create Podcasts not reliable)

  1. Pandora http://www.pandora.com (create your own music stations)

Purevideo http://www.purevideo.com (meta search for videos)

Picasa http://picasa.google.com (upload photos to web album audience contributed)

  1. Nothing

Qumana http://qumana.com (Tools for bloggers – audience contributed)

  1. RSS (Is this really social software?)
  1. Stephens, Michael

Snapper http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2703/

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/

  1. Trackback? (He thinks it’s dead and stupid)

Typo of the day http://typooftheday.blogspot.com

Twingine http://www.twingine.com (compares yahoo and google search results – audience contributed)

  1. utube.com This poor site got pounded when YouTube got bought by someone else. And the owner of the site complained about it, when thousands of people went there)
  1. Nothing
  1. Wikis
  1. Nothing … Xanga (from the audience)
  1. YouTube (1.6 BILLION!!)
  1. Zoho http://www.zoho.com (web based office apps)

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