Uber - fast website designs that actually look good

16/Feb/2008

Uber.com is a community-driven creative-minded destination where visitors can discover, publish, collect, store and share all forms of media content on its ever-growing Uber Index. Built on a proprietary, robust Web 2.0 platform, Uber offers members a host of unique cutting-edge widgets to enhance their online adventure.

Uber redefines the traditional Web model, combining technology, content, community and experience to create an at-your-fingertips world of invaluable user-generated ideas and information. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Uber is a privately-held next-generation media company founded by Scott Sassa and Glenn Kaino in 2006.

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YAML Builder

31/Aug/2007

"Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users. Read More...

RSS Toolbox

17/Jul/2007

A near comprehensive list of all the RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks and directories available on the web. Read More...

Webware.com and the top 100 Web 2.0 applications

30/May/2007

Webware.com has a nice overview of the top Web 2.0 applications sorted by category. If you are interested in Web 2.0, this is a nice place to start to get a grasp on what is available. Click the logo to visit the site. Read More...

AjaxDaddy - A large collection of nifty web 2.0 tools

30/May/2007

Just like it says, it's a collection of tools for adding web 2.0 feature to your website. Lots of cool stuff here. Click the logo for more. Read More...

Yahoo Underground

01/Apr/2007

Yahoo Underground, a new site under the Yahoo! News brand. After playing around with it for a while, the only explanation we can think of is that Underground aims to be a user generated news site for off-beat news, subcultures and creative-types.

It’s a quirky, youth-oriented site that’s encouraging users to make use of Jumpcut, Yahoo Video and Flickr for news gathering. Upcoming.org also gets a mention, presumably to help these offbeat characters to connect.

Or at least, we think it is, since Underground makes no real attempt to explain itself - why bother when you’re this cool? Read More...

Yahoo Pipes - RSS aggregation for everyone

22/Feb/2007

Yahoo finally did something as cool as Google! Pipes is sort of a mash-up tool for RSS news feeds. People are making fun and interesting web mash-up tools with it. It's still in Beta so you might just want to look around.

"Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant." Read More...

Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us (video)

22/Feb/2007

Interesting (and artsy) explanation of what the web is becoming and what it will evolve into. Read More...

random web pic - temple of joy at Burning man

14/Jan/2007

Social Networking for Neighborhoods

07/Jan/2007

The brainchild of a group of students and teachers from MIT, I-Neighbors offers a free and easy way for residents of a given community to exchange information (and maybe even bond). Search by zip code to see if anybody's already created a home page for your neighborhood; if not, you can create your own. It takes just a few minutes to register, and your profile can be as vague or specific as you like. Provide an email address to be included in the directory and to receive group emails. You can add events to the calendar, recommend cleaning ladies and handymen, upload photos, even contact elected officials (see GovLink). Of course, whether a neighborhood thrives or dies depends on the participation of its members. Is yours a ghost town? The site provides a ready-to-print flyer for posting at the gym or corner deli to help advertise the link and drum up interest. Read More...

Go2web2.0 - a directory of sites

24/Nov/2006

Want to experience Web 2.0 ?

You propably already do without really noticing. You don’t have to know that a site is Web 2.0, you only have to experience it.

Popular Web 2.0 sites are Gmail and Yahoo, but want to experience more… then point your browser to Go2Web20, there you can find an exhaustive list of Web 2.0 sites.
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The Experience Project

12/Nov/2006

The Experience Project is a site where you can anonymously share your life experiences in a very web 2.0 (social) way. The site reminds me of 43things, where you list your goals, but the Experience Project is a bit different. You can join groups that align with things you have experienced, have not experienced, or plan to in the future. You can meet up with people (anonymously), share your plans, secrets, dreams, and well, experiences with everyone. In the interest of anonymity, the site will even automatically blur a picture of you as your icon, so you are not recognizable to everyone else. You might find the site interesting or just downright annoying, it is hard to tell. If nothing else, go check out the software this site uses. It is interesting, not to mention the notion of why anyone would ever want to share things like this on the web. Two words: morbid curiosity. Read More...

FileChucker - an AJAX file mover for browser file transfers

11/Nov/2006

I looked at a lot of file transfer tools before I found filechucker by encodable systems. The best way to describe it is "an AJAX file mover for browser file transfers". You buy a license for your domain ($39), and yo can set up webrowser uploads to a directory with username and password security.

It's dummy proof FTP using an AJAX application that has a small footprint and is fairly easy to set up.

Setting up security is a little more complicated, but if I can do it... you can do it. Click the pic to visit the site. Read More...

retriever a flicker search engine with results based on your sketch!

02/Nov/2006

this is weird and somehow very satisfyingly cool. You draw a little sketch in the web browser drawing application and the retrievr finds photos on flickr.com that are somehow related to your sketch. Read More...

Parakey, Mozilla's next open-source venture

02/Nov/2006

Blake Ross, (the guy who created Firefox and made it famous) has a new project that you might find interesting. Parakey is a meta-media, online seamlessly integrated space created to be way easier to organize and share all you digital stuff. Photos, video, music, documents, web content, and anything else you can think of (within reason). The idea is that the web needs to function like a operating system, so everything is not a multi-step, account sign-in, hassle, upload, FTP, web, change a setting mess! To me it sounds like MySpace cracked open for fun and on some type of high level rocket-booster, but one that only takes the push of a button for that elusive ease of use we crave. This will be great news for all of the people in our geeky lives who are trying to grasp this whole web-social-everything-cool-neato thing, and even with our geeky help come up empty at times. I agree with the notion, the web is just too hard for the everyday user. I don't mind the technical aspect of it, otherwise I would be doing something else, but I have heard I am a freak or something. For my mom and dad, this Parakey thing would be great. Personalized, customized space that is easy to use and enjoyable. You can sign-up for the Parakey "we'll let you know when it's ready" email list if you like, until you get that email, feel free to have a ponder. Read More...

Exclaimable, a free content creation tool for bloggers

01/Nov/2006

Exclaimable! is a brand new social media service that empowers users to create online media in the moment, then easily share it by embedding it on their own site, or sharing the URL, much like YouTube. Exclaimable uses Flash to allow users to create video, audio, drawings or simple text posts, all in an extremely intuitive and easy-to-use way. For example, all you need to create video on the site is a webcam and microphone – all of the configuration is done by the site.

There are no file uploads to Exclaimable; the point of the site is to have users create their content right on the site. This pared-down approach makes Exclaimable both approachable and addictive. It's fun to set about the task of creating a new piece of online media, be it a picture or video, and drop the pressure of having to make it "perfect". Exclaimable lets you make something that's "good enough" right now.

The embedding feature enables any of the content types to be added to a user's web page, be it a blog, myspace account, or static html page. This could enable some users that might otherwise be intimidated by video editing tools to be able to create a video blog, simply by using Exclaimable's video capture and hosting functionality, and embedding the videos in their own blog.

There's also a content browser where you can view everyone's submissions filtered by medium and category, and rate them. Read More...

The Best and the Worst of the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit

28/Oct/2006

GigaOM.com is an online news and weblog in San Franciso. Liz Gannes, who used to write for Red Herring did a good summary of the Web 2.0 Conference for them.

"Twice at the Web 2.0 Summit, we had funny conversations with people on the topic “what will be the online pet food of bubble 2.0″? Nominees on the floor are social bookmarking sites and mommy-oriented social networks." Read More...

19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don't Know

11/Oct/2006

Excellent and useful Ruby on Rails tricks for uber web nerds. I really love and appreciate that the web is getting populated with useful knowledge that is posted by people who have put in real sweat equity, in this case... the fine folks at Ruby Inside.

Ruby Inside is a weblog dedicated to Ruby and its associated technologies, including Ruby on Rails. It features posts about the Ruby language, tips and tricks, lists of resources and references, as well as automatically updating news from the 'Rubysphere' (a poor name for the universe of Ruby related blogs).

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free DHTML scripts

03/Sep/2006

A Norwegian coder is posting great scripts with working demos and easy to understand explanations. Nice clean site design too!

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