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 [...]

I’m in SF for the web2expo and here for about a month. Wanna meet up? email me

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 [...]

That cute dog you see on plasq.com, the Comic Life box and now, the Skitch icon is my Dog. He is a Harrier Hound named atari. They look like a bigger yet younger looking Beagle.

He turned 8 on March 1st – w00f.

Uploaded with Skitch!

He is cute.

Looks like we, plasq and the creator of Spotlaser have independently struck onto something similar.

Skitch:


Spotlaser:


This is mostly cosmetic – In the case of Skitch, you can ‘drag a file off’ with drag me. On Spotlaser, it is a button to start the search.

PLUS! they both start with ‘S’ and we are both from Australia. ohhh [...]

I’ve started a User Interface review group on Flickr for anyone who wants to give feedback or upload screenshots and receive feedback on their work. Check it out and join here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/uireview/

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