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Make beautiful wordclouds from from text that you provide

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:13:51 GMT

clipped by: funana

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Create your own.

Tags: wordclouds, clouds, web 2.0, wordle

The Evolution of Lifestreaming Into Lifeportals

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:04:32 GMT

clipped by: funana

Clip Source: lifestreamblog.com

The other day on css tricks.com, they posted about creating your own social home which appeared to me as more of a personal/social portal than a lifestream. A lifeportal, if you will.

Tags: lifestreaming, lifeportals, web 2.0

SezWho for Drupal: Real Disqus Alternative?

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:28:40 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks: What I like at SezWho is the approach to leave your site comments untouched and search engine friendly.

I recently played around with Disqus and Intense Debate and I like the whole idea.
http://www.intensedebate.com/users/57981
http://disqus.com/people/Infopirat/

Other things that are maybe similiar but decentral:
http://www.cocomment.com/

and last but not least this here, which is the "Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Initative":
http://sioc-project.org/

Clip Source: sezwho.com

Tags: sezwho, drupal, disqus, web 2.0, sioc, comments

The easy way to create Your online portfolio

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:56:52 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: infopirate.org

Carbonmade is...

The easiest way to display and manage your portfolio online

A clean canvas to show off your work

Instant updating with no HTML experience necessary

A set of easy to use management tools

Images, flash, video... Oh my!

Used by over 20,000 artists and designers in 55 countries

Carbonmade is your online portfolio!

Tags: carbonmade, flash, images, online portfolio, portfolio, video, web 2.0

Network for Bloggers: Give Interviews, get promoted!

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:31:27 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks: Nice idea!

Clip Source: infopirate.org

Network for Bloggers: Give Interviews, get promoted!

A good way to promote your blog or website are interviews with you on other blogs and sites. Peopleized is web 2.0 service which provides a network for bloggers who want to promote theirselves by interviews:

Looking for promotion? Get interviewed by people and be exposed to new audiences. Interviews show "behind the scenes" of you and your blog/site like never seen before. Meanwhile, you will make new friends, gain links to your site and spread your message!

Tags: blog, blogger, blogging, fame, free promotion, interviews, network, peopleized, promotion, social network

Play and create online games at Mygame.com for free

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:39:22 GMT

clipped by: funana

Clip Source: infopirate.org

Play and create online games at Mygame.com for free

Create your very own games in less than 2 minutes. It´s easy and fun, all you have to do is upload a photo, adjust it and then publish it to the world.

Tags: flash game, online game, games, web 2.0

Tun3r: Find Online Radio Stations by Artist or Genre

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:38:00 GMT

clipped by: funana

Clip Source: infopirate.org

Tun3r: Find Online Radio Stations by Artist or Genre

Three easy steps to using TUN3R:

1. Enter an artist you like (e.g. "pink floyd").
2. Check the playlist (shown in the bottom left), to see if this station plays what you like.
3. Like the station? Click to listen directly from your media player. Or, click Next match to move the Needle to the next result.

Tags: internet radio, radio, online radio, radio stations, search engine, tun3r, web 2.0

Web 2.0 can benefit the world's poor

Thu, 03 May 2007 20:53:52 GMT

clipped by: funana

Clip Source: liberdadi.com

Web 2.0 can benefit the world's poor

"New web applications can benefit the world's poor", argue Waleed al-Shobakky and Jack Imsdahl in an article recently published by SciDev.Net. The term 'Web 2.0' captures the transition of the worldwide web from flat websites offering static information to a new computing platform independent of earlier shackles.

The applications available include web-based word processors and spreadsheets such as gOffice or ThinkFree, online calendars like Kiko and backup services such as that provided by Mozy. Most of these also offer free storage space, acting as a kind of virtual hard disk for saving files.

Tags: development, ict, technology, internet, web 2.0

68 Web 2.0 Webdesign Tutorials

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:42:48 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks: A very nice collection of Web 2.0 Webdesign-Tutorials.

Clip Source: www.drweb.de

1. Three girls posing in the night Illustration - Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Graphic Design Software

2. Adobe Software - Adobe Photoshop

3. Adobe Software - Adobe Photoshop

4. Create a software box - Photoshop Tutorial

5. Programming the web - Retro lines in photoshop?

7. Gradient Styles & How To Make Dashes - Photoshop Tutorial | PhotoshopSupport.com

12. Jelly Remake - Tutorials 2.0

13. Web 2.0 Style Logo

14. PXLGFX- Polished Text

15. How to Make a Web 2.0-Style Logo

16. Learn to create your own Web2.0 Logo

17. How to create a WEB 2.0 style logo

18. Web 2.0 Logo #2 | Designphase - Web Design Tutorials

19. Web 2.0 Logo | Designphase - Web Design Tutorials

20. Web 2.0 Logo

23. The Logos of Web 2.0 | The FontFeed at FontShop

34. Web 2.0 Badge Photoshop Tutorial

35. Create a Shiny Badge - Photoshop Tutorial

36. Supermarket Stickers Tutorial - Visualdesigncore.com

37. Web2.0 Badges

40. Badge ‘n Button | Designphase - Web Design Tutorials

Tags: web 2.0, design, layout, webdesign, glossy, buttons, batches, logos, how 2, tutorials, internet, graphics, photoshop

Search Engine For All Social Bookmark Services (incl. Clipmarks)

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:18:55 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks: Try it!

Clip Source: infopirate.org

Search Engine For All Social Bookmark Services

Yesterday I noticed, that there is no way to search all social bookmark services at once. "There must be something like a meta search for that", I thought.

Nope, there wasn't. I did a research but I found nothing except some dead links from sites who might have had this service but are offline now.

Google Co-op is a very nice way to set up a custom search engine, and although I like Rollyo and Swiki, Google is still the best: Fast crawling, huge index. And I like the easy way to integrate the co-op search within Drupal.

Easy said, easy done, here we go: My Social Bookmark Search Engine.

If you like/hate my social bookmark search then please drop me a line and spread the word!

Tags: web 2.0, technology, internet, clipmarks, social bookmarks, bookmarks, search, search engine, firefox plugin

Most popular social music places on web.

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:40:53 GMT

clipped by: techmine
clipper's remarks: If you love music and move the idea to socialize around music, check out these web sites. You can explore so many ways to socialze and make great friends.

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

Social Music Overview

FineTune

Finetune is a relatively new application written in Flash. It’s my favorite out of the bunch and I covered it on my ZDNet blog. What makes Finetune stand out is that in addition to the standard “artist radio”, it allows users to build playlists of specific songs. The minimum playlist is 45 songs and you can have up to three songs per artist. With custom playlists, you can make sure you’re only listening to songs you want. Finetune also gets points because in addition to the web version, it runs on the Wii and there is an Apollo-based desktop client.

Pandora

Pandora is the granddaddy of the bunch and it’s one of the Web 2.0 applications that Mike can’t live without. It is built using OpenLaszlo and provides the cleanest experience out of all the applications on the list. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project to generate a stream of songs that you’ll like based on how you rate previous tracks. You create stations around artists, songs or albums and you can provide feedback (thumbs up or thumbs down) on the songs Pandora chooses. Tech Crunch’s coverage of Pandora is here.

Last.Fm

last.fm is another Web 2.0 veteran and is more socially-slanted than the others. Tagging is a big part of the last.fm experience and you can tag any song that comes along in addition to being able to listen to “user tag radio” which is based on tracks that users have tagged with a specific genera. last.fm has a separate desktop application that “scrobbles” the songs you listen to and generates a music profile that you can share with friends. See Tech Crunch’s coverage of last.fm here.

MOG

MOG is all about a music community. It’s very blog-centric and revolves around user pages, or “Mogs”. You build your Mog around songs you’re listening too and artists you like. That builds something like a profile for you that users can browse to and comment on. It also uses this profile to suggest other people or music that you might like. Tech Crunch’s coverage of MOG is here.

Tags: social networking, music, web2.0

Extract Content From Any Website With Dapper

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:21:50 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks: This seems to be a nice service with a lot of options. I have'nt tried it yet, but I think it's worth the look.

Clip Source: www.dappit.com

Welcome to Dapper, a new service which makes it easy to extract content from any website. Read more or see our blog post. Dapper allows you to create a "black box" (a Dapp) for any data source on the Internet. The Dapp produces XML which you can use programatically in whatever way you like. Additionally, Dapper provides you with the ability to transform this XML into other formats (e.g.: HTML, Google Maps, RSS, more). For a sample of what you can build using Dapper, see Magg and Blotter.

Create a Dapp

Find a Dapp

Developers

Demo

Tags: dapper, scraping, rss, xml, html, web 2.0

The End of Web 2.0? German GEMA against Rapidshare

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:09:57 GMT

clipped by: funana
clipper's remarks: The german GEMA (ASCAP/BMI) tries to stop Rapidshare, a german share hoster service, because of copyright offenses. This would possibly be an extreme obstruction for other user generated content services like youtube and myspace.

Clip Source: www.level75.de

Das Ende von Web2.0

Januar 18th, 2007

jetzt geht die GEMA gegen den “Share-Hoster” Rapidshare vor. Der Grund ist die Bereitstellung von Urheberrechtlichem Material durch Nutzer dieses Dienstleisters. Auf Rapidshare kann man Dateien abspeichern und diese dann per http Link, anderen Webnutzern zum Download zur Verfügung stellen.

Wieso ist das Vorgehen der Tod von Web2.0?

GEMA-Chef Dr. Harald Heker leitet aus dieser Entscheidung auch Konsequenzen für Dienste wie YouTube und MySpace ab: “Diese Entscheidungen sind auch für den künftigen Umgang mit Web 2.0-Diensten wie YouTube und MySpace von großer Bedeutung. Sie zeigen, dass die bloße Abwälzung der Nutzungshandlungen auf die Nutzer und die angebliche Unkontrollierbarkeit der Inhalte den Dienstbetreiber nicht von seiner urheberrechtlichen Verantwortlichkeit für die auf seiner Webseite zum Abruf gestellten Inhalte entheben.”

Wenn die Klage so einfach durch geht ist das vermute ich, dass Ende des User generated Content!

Wie sagt man so schön: “Vor Gericht und auf hoher See sei man in der Gnade Gottes”

Quelle: Golem.de

Technorati tags: Web2.0, Urheberrecht, Copyright, GEMA

Tags: rapidshare, web 2.0, user generated content, gema, share hoster, copyright, germany

Web 2.0 how-to design guide

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:57:38 GMT

clipped by: pallefs

Clip Source: www.webdesignfromscratch.com

Web 2.0 how-to design guide

In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web ("2.0") design style.

I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs.

It follows on from my Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current "Web 2.0" design style.

Summary of features covered

The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical "Web 2.0" sites.

Clearly, a site doesn't need to exhibit all these features to work well, and displaying these features doesn't make a design "2.0" - or good!

I've already addressed some of these factors in my introductory Current Style article.

I'm using the term "Web 2.0 design" to describe the prevailing style of web design I introduce in my current style article.

Many people use the term "Web 2.0" to describe:

a resurgence in the web economy
a new level of technological interactivity between web sites and services
or social phenomena deriving from new types of online communities and social networks

Many others also use the term in reference to a recent school of web design. I'm comfortable with using it in that context here.

Tags: web 2.0, web design, web development, guide, how-to, tutorial, style, internet

Web 2.0 Buttons with Photoshop

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:52:47 GMT

clipped by: shepherd2112

Clip Source: iris-design.info

Web 2.0 style buttons

Nowadays Web 2.0 style becomes more popular. Every day tons of sites which has simple, bright and very interesting things, appear in Network. There are no standards about creating any Web 2.0 elements, but we have several typical features, for example and clean colors, many gradients.

Today I want to show you how to create Web 2.0 styled button using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Open the Photoshop, create new document for the button.
Create shape for future button using Rounded Rectangle tool on toolbar, specify round radius.
Right click on rectangle layer in Layers palette, choose Blending Options.
Set the Gradient Overlay effect parameters. I have following color of first and second thumb: 434343, third – 000000.
You can find Stroke effect parameters below. Stroke color is 363636.
Set the Inner Glow effect options.
As the result you will get following image:
Create rectangle using Rounded Rectangle tool, it will be used as button glare.
Right click on “glare” layer, choose Rasterize Layer.
Click Edit in Quick Mask Mode on toolbar.
Choose Gradient Tool, create gradient like following:
After leaving quick mask mode, you will get selection area. Click Delete button.
Add layer with text “Entries RSS” and RSS icon. Set Drop Shadow effect parameters.

Now you got following button:

After changing different effects parameters, adding or changing elements, I got following buttons:

Updated: You can download PSD sources here.

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Tags: adobe photoshop, design, tricks, tutorial, web 2.0, button, web-design
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Tags: photoshop, design web2.0