Archive for the ‘Web Tools’ Category
I just joined Shelfari “an interactive social media site for book lovers. Using Shelfari, you can create a personal shelf of your books, see what your friends are reading, get and give recommendations for what to read next, create book lists, and even share your opinion on a book with friends or the growing Shelfari community.” And I am super super excited about it being an avid reader and always looking to find new books to read and finding new books through the recommendations of others.
I worked at a library for nearly 3/4 years and consistently stole their Publisher’s Weekly and Book Review Digest to find the newest and most interesting books, so finding an online network where I can read the reviews of others and post my own is exciting.
Except for one thing.
Colourlovers has finally commented on Adobe’s kuler nearly 8 months since it’s launch. I’ve long used colourlovers as inspiration for new color schemes when I hit a color-block. Colourlovers first launched in 2004 building and strong community following and adding more and more neat features as time passed. Adobe’s kuler launched November of 2006 offering another fantastic resource for those looking for color inspiration. The argument here though isn’t who does it best, or who has the coolest features (each site wins different rounds in that aspect) - it’s the fact that Adobe has clearly borrowed their kuler site idea from colourlovers and despite being contacted by the owner of colurlovers has made no attempt to remedy the situation.
Since Google has acquired Feedburner two of the previously paid features are now completely free!
Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.
Let’s face it. As much as we hate it and as much as it sucks from a programming and design POV, Myspace is one of those sites that most of us visit at least once a day. We all use it to keep in touch with friends and family, reunite with high school buddies and to network with new people. Sometimes your friends and family members try to be tricky. They copy little bits of code that hide certain Myspace information - like their friends list, comments or even their last login.
And as much as you deny it, you really want to know who’s in your boyfriend’s Top 8 right? Yeh, we all do. So what to do short of hacking into his Myspace? It’s easy, and here is how!
I’ve been signed up, and using Rojo’s Feedshare since I’ve heard about it on Tech Crunch months ago. I thought it was a great way to get your feed/blog exposure in an unintrusive adsensey type of way.
