June 5, 2005
New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Sunday Picnic 3
Third Sunday picnic in Sharewood with a growing appetite for this weekly grab bag full of exotic tools saved for you during the course of the last seven days.
Photo credit: The Garden's Baskets (c)
My Sharewood picnic is meant to provide a little great collection of online resources and software tools from which you can pick and choose what may be most useful for you.
This Sunday too there is a great deal of delicious stuff to pick from:
- Delicious Tag Clusterer
- Folksonomy-enabled RSS and Podcasts Directory
- Web-based Information Backpack
- Contextual Search Tool
- Free and Premium RSS Directory
- Best Freeware Utilities
- SERP Overlap calculator for Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves
- Popularity and Page Analysis Search Engine
- Multi-OS Browser Testing
Have a taste!
A Master thesis project transforms itself into a useful information visualizer, taxonomy mapper and knowledge category navigator. A small free web service visually clusters your del.icio.us bookmarks into easy-to-read tag clouds. Credit Marc Zacher and Kai Bielenberg two German students in Digital Media at the University of Bremen.
http://laurie.informatik.uni-bremen.de/clusty/index.php
bigfeeder.com makes it easy to search and surf the latest media feeds while integrating the ability to tag any RSS feed or podcast you find. Bigfeeder produces RSS feeds and M3U playlists from your own selected tags and makes it easy to submit your RSS feeds and podcasts for others to find.
http://bigfeeder.com/
Personal information management on the web via a state-of-the-art stupid-proof interface. Projects, ideas, notes, plans, to-do lists, images and more can be posted with the ease of a blog-like tool. Backpack gives you the benefit of the web (centralized access, no install, no IT nightmares) without the downsides of the web (reloads, slowdowns, poor interfaces).
http://www.backpackit.com/
Y!Q is the first-of-its-kind contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the web page you're viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you're reading. Y!Q lets you search from any web page you're on so you don't have to interrupt your workflow to find more information. Traditional web searches force you to go to a specific search page and type in a query.
A regular web search only uses your search term or "query" to find what you're looking for. Y!Q uses both your query and information you highlight on a webpage to determine the "context" of your search. Using this "context," Y!Q attempts to provide the type of information you're looking for. For instance, if you were to type in the query "apple" in a regular web search box, you would probably see results about the computer company, the fruit, and possibly other references. However, if you were already on a web page about computers and then highlighted some text on that webpage and typed the same "apple" query using Y!Q, you'd see results that were specific only to Apple computers. Y!Q thus distinguishes what you want based on the context you select in the page you're on.
http://yq.search.yahoo.com/
A would-be online RSS-based information superstore provides clearinghouse for free and premium online content. Supports podcasts and BitTorrent-based distributions. It promises ability to offer personal feeds and podcasts for paid subscription within twenty-four hours. RSS and ATOM feeds can be sold on RSS Bazaar on a subscription or per-item basis. RSS Bazaar caches syndicated content on its own servers to provide high-performance podcasting content delivery and relieve bandwidth load from small content providers. Podcasting content is optimized for mobile devices as well as distributed via BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology.
http://www.rssbazaar.com/WelcomeView.do
There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features Ian Richards, editor of TechSupportAlert, pick of the "best of the best." The utilities in this list have been featured in past issues of his free monthly newsletter "Support Alert" and more freebies are featured in every new free issue. If you are interested in great utilities and freeware this is the list to have.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...
Meta search-engine DogPile has released an effectively designed visual comparison view tool allowing you to see at-a-glance overlaps and gaps in pages indexed by three major search engines. Compare and evaluate your presence on the majors with side by side text results or by using the visual periscope.
http://missingpieces.dogpile.com/
The first Search Engine with a "Site Analyzing Control Panel" for EACH result. GoLexa is a new search engine prepares and aggregates for you access to a slew of Web tools and services ready to provide you measurable overview of link popularity, traffic, and many other interesting site indicators including the Alexa Traffic Rank, Google Page Rank, Link Stats for inbound and outbound links, Links Popularity, Keyword Density Checker, Page analysis and overall Site Speed, AdSense ads preview and a lot more. While this is not a professional service it is a great one-stop page for site and page analysis. A big time saver.
http://www.golexa.com
Created by Ed Schmidt, Multi-OS Browser Testing is an online resource providing information about some of the most popular browsers available out there. It is possible to test any browser you are using against a number of basic tests to see its ability to render standard code, XHTML, CSS, images in different graphic formats and more.
http://www.aadmm.de/en/index.htm
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