I’ve been looking for web services to use at plasq for certain tasks. Thought I should share as they will be handy for other small business’.

Lining up meetings


diarised.com

meetwithapproval.com
doodle.ch
timeanddate.com meeting planner – We have often used this the last year. Am yet to try the others.

Sending out mailing lists


newsberry.com

campaignmonitor.com – Great! we use this, as do [...]

It’s interesting… 2 of the biggest things changing the online world are in ways, total opposite.

Advertising and Open Source

Advertising is about as commercial as you can get – Open source is for some, a backlash to commercialism.

But both give the end result – free products and services.

Licensing User-Generated Content – Fred von Lohmann


red flag knowledge VS waiting for take down notices

Points out YouTube has no ads on video pages because don’t want to be seen benefitting from illegal content
flickr become a great stock photo point
talk to your lawyer now, not later!

Immersive Experiences: Lessons from Game Designers – areae.net – raphkoster.com

Audio of [...]

Misc Links


architectureforhumanity.org

openarchitecturenetwork.org
weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/
sliderocket.com
www.picnik.com/
virtub.com

John Battelle talks to Eric Schmidt


Google announced a powerpoint like web-app – this completes the line up of the ‘office suite’

John is funny
“Mobile Mobile Mobile”, Eric Schmidt

An Overview of Badges and Widgets: The Fast Rise of Viral Web Parts – http://cal.web2expo.com/talk/view/71


widgetbox.com

google adwords – the most successful ‘widget’
widgets must be easy to add to your [...]

Thomas Vanderwal – Tagging that works – infocloudsolutions.com

Thomas has posted the slides on his blog here


Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of pages for ones own retrieval and usually done in a shared environment.

The less you have to think about tagging, the better (i’d also add, the less you feel you need [...]

Point form fragments from today.

web2expo related Sites


web2open wiki

Ignite schedule
web2open

Dion Hinchcliffe – Dion’s Blog


web 2. 0 – it’s made of people

mass service of micromarkets
unintended uses
network effect in effect – find ways to push this in anyway
because you are always online, you better be good at scaling
‘hard to recreate’ data
mobile web parts
Leverage the long tail
you often don’t [...]

A Skitch beta tester, Kent Bye, has made an awesome video about the social aspect of the web and more specifically, vidcasting/video blogging. Check it out:

Click To Play

Kent said by email:

I found that Skitch can be easily used to spice up screencasts to great effect. It allowed me to quickly take a screenshot, and then [...]

Can I start this post with a WOW!? (no, not this kind of ‘Wow’) ... Ok, Done.. Now watch:



You can grab it here:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html
(Windows XP SP2 and Vista only)

List of stuff I thought were really slick

The operations of: mydreamapp.com

The interface of: xtorrent
New application we are working on: Not telling

Webstore of: Panic
Keyboard Keith bought me: Macally Icekey
User support of: SuperDuper!
Auto backlog of text chat in: Skype
The icon of: Cha-Ching
The goodness of: Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier
Blogging about… selling off a service: DropSend
...And your weight [...]

So, I was gonna try this new ‘Dream Recorder’ app – site seems cool – nice features… then this:



Surely a joke?... hmmm