Miscellaneous



:: Miscellaneous ::

The tools that (at least for the moment) don’t fit elsewhere …

  • Wink
    “Wink is a search engine that lets you find the results that people think are most popular. Wink is a different search engine that determines relevance by what people indicate are the best links. We crawl Digg, Furl, Slashdot and Yahoo MyWeb, plus user-imported tags from del.icio.us, index the results, and figure out which pages are most relevant through our TagRank ™ algorithms.”
    » http://www.wink.com
  • Listible
    “Listible is a new way to get relevant resources quickly. By using Web 2.0 features such as AJAX, folksonomy (tagging), social elements such as voting/commenting and the listible’s listonomy (listing), resources can be sorted in a way that will be digestible. You can search what you need quick. You can contribute your resources easier.” Or, in other words, it’s lists of lists … and extremely useful.
    » http://www.listible.com
  • SlideShare
    “SlideShare is a cool place to host and share presentations. Upload all your slide decks, and find / download interesting presentations.” I guess that just about says it all.
    » http://www.slideshare.net
  • RealTravel.com
    co-founded by Tom Gruber—author / developper of the Ontolingua system for representing and integrating ontologies, and a pioneer in the use of the web for knowledge sharing and collaboration—RealTravel’s social web tools (tagging, blog / journal and comments, photo-sharing, Google Maps) create an online environment for travelers to share experiences.
    » http://realtravel.com
  • MyHeritage.com
    A genealogy site (it does a meta-search of 346 top genealogy databases), it has a small number of distinctively Web 2.0 features: photo upload and management, with face recognition and matching (in the manner of Riya), a community that allows registered users to “explore members, photos, sites and family trees”, and an irritatingly pretentious “Family 2.0″ in the title bar. The highlight is the client software package, Family Tree Builder, “our free genealogy software for putting together your family tree. It’s not only completely free, and free of ads and spyware, but it’s also one of the best genealogy software programs you’ll find. It has original, easy-to-use pages that let you grow your family tree visually. It runs in 12 languages and lets you create and print your family tree in several languages. Bring your family tree to life with photos and documents and use our ground-breaking face recognition technology to annotate your photos and discover the identity of people you don’t recognize in your old family photos. In a few mouse clicks, you can publish your family tree to the Internet on your own family Website and share it with family and friends!” (the downside is that it’s a Windows-only application … so not much use to me)
  • Helpalot
    Not an operational site at the time of writing (21st June 2006), but looks interesting. “Saving the world is easy, or at least it should be. The big majority of us would like to improve the world and we can use charities for a more effective and efficient streaming of this good will. The problem is that it’s rather hard to find the right charity. … Helpalot is a scalable site that is able to capture the knowledge of a large community. It’s is a charity social network site with evaluations providing a system for the flow of trust, using the transparency of multi-subjective analysis and social networks that are present off- and online. Helpalot will be a social network site. Simply said; you can have a personal page that states what charities you support and who your friends are. On charity pages you can write, rate and read evaluations. This social network and evaluations will lead to an easier way of finding a charity that fits your intentions and is trustworthy.” [from project description at http://www.makingthesite.com]