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useful [web2.0] apps, sites & tools!!!

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Web 2.0... refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Internet-based services - such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies - that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Bebo
http://www.bebo.com/
Social networking site, sort of like a more grown up MySpace

Block Posters
http://www.blockposters.com/
Make big posters out of multiple A4 images.

Blogger
http://www.blogger.com/
Blog publishing platform

b00mb0x
http://www.b00mb0x.org/
Hosts your mixtapes and music compilations for free - based on a collaborative WordPress blog and self-uploading by FTP

Communities
http://www.communities.com/
Social networking site with forums, guestbook, messaging & other features

deli.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/
Social bookmarking service

Democracy
http://www.getdemocracy.com/
Open source internet TV and video RSS download/vlog/video podcast manager

digg
http://www.digg.com/
Technology (and other) news site with non-hierarchical editorial policy ranked by users

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
Picture storage, hosting, organisation, tagging & sharing resource

FLV Online Converter
http://vixy.net/flv_converter
Converts embedded flash videos off places like youtube to more convenient formats (.avi, .mov, .mp4, .3gp, .mp3 audio)

Fotolog
http://www.fotolog.com/
Photoblog site

Fotki
http://www.fotki.com/
Social network based on picture and video sharing and hosting

GameCopyWorld
http://www.gamecopyworld.com/
Online backup site for legally-owned games

Glowfoto
http://www.glowfoto.com/
Photo sharing social network

Google Video
http://video.google.com/
Video hosting/sharing site

iFilm
http://www.ifilm.com/
Video hosting/sharing site

ImageShack
http://imageshack.us/
Free image hosting site, with account facilities available

IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/
User-editable database of movies, TV shows, the people and organisations that make them. With forums, messaging, user-generated lists etc

Joomla!
http://www.joomla.org/
Open source content management system for publishing web content using MySQL database (includes RSS feeds, blogging, search functionality, printable page, polls etc)

Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/
Music recommendation system (powered by scrobbler, which logs the music you play) and web radio
qv: b00mb0x

LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/
Blog-focused social networking community

LiveLeak
http://www.liveleak.com/
Video sharing site, with validation/points process

Mappr
http://www.mappr.com/
"Interactive environment" based on geographically-tagged pictures on Flickr (currently US-focused)

Multiply
http://www.multiply.com/
Social networking site with emphasis on free hosting for your audio, video, images and other files, plus messaging, blogging etc

MyPhotoAlbum
http://www.myphotoalbum.com/
Photo sharing site

MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/
Social networking site with forums, messaging and other facilities

Odeo
http://www.odeo.com/
Podcast recording and sharing site

Photobucker
http://www.photobucket.com/
Picture/video sharing and hosting

podOmatic
http://podomatic.com/
Podcast-based blogging & social networking site

(The) Rasterbator
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Creates large, rasterized multi-page PDFs from images you upload

Revver
http://www.revver.com/
Video sharing site

Smugmug
http://www.smugmug.com/
Picture sharing site

Twango
http://www.twango.com/
Media sharing site

TypePad
http://www.typepad.com/
Paid-for blogging platform, including features like moblogging, photo albums, multiple author supprt etc

WAYN
http://www.wayn.com/
'Where Are You Now' is a social network based around travelling

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/
User-defined, edited & maintained encyclopaedia, based on collaborative authoring

WordPress
http://wordpress.org/
Blog publishing platform

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/
Video sharing/blogging site

Zamzar
http://www.zamzar.com/
Free online file converter, currently a 100mb limit, links stay active for 24 hours (for file types see note * below)

Zooomr
http://beta.zooomr.com/
Photo sharing site, "Flickr on steroids"

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Sorted by type:

Blogging platforms & software
Bebo
Blogger
Communities
Fotolog
LiveJournal
Multiply
MySpace
podOmatic
TypePad
WordPress

File converters
FLV Online Converter
Zamzar

Folksonomical
del.icio.us
digg

Music stuff
b00mb0x
Last.fm
Multiply

Picture enlargers
Block Posters
(The) Rasterbater

Picture sharing/hosting
Flickr
Fotki
Fotolog
Glowfoto
ImageShack
Multiply
MyPhotoAlbum
Photobucket
Smugmug
Twango
Zoomr

Podcasting
Odeo
podOmatic

Social networks
Bebo
Communities
Fotki
LiveJournal
IMDb
Last.fm
Multiply
MySpace
podOmatic
WAYN
Wikipedia

Video sharing/hosting
Democracy
Google Video
LiveLeak
Multiply
Photobucket
Revver
YouTube

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Useful Wikis, blogs etc:

Comparison of video services (charges, formats etc)

List of social networking sites

List of blog software (includes user- and developer-hosted)

social sim (an interesting blog which often covers innovations in Web2.0 and the changing ways we use the web, written by Aleks Krotoski - formerly a presenter of ‘Bits’ and now an academic in the field of the social web)

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Notes:

* Filetypes used on Zamzar are csv, doc, odp, ods, odt, pdf, ppt, xls, bmp, gif, jpg, tif, ps, ac3, au, m4a, mp3, wav, wma, avi, flv, gvi, mov, mp4, mpg
bristle-krs

add useful shizzle here - please include url and conditions as above, and i'll add it to the list - see also the file transfer thread...
Ninjadmin

that's pretty awesome

http://www.gamecopyworld.com/

this link is an invaluable resource for when you buy a game and your cd gets a scratch
bristle-krs

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bristle-krs

updated again - damn i'm keen
Ninjadmin

if someone gives me a slap i'll update the useful forum tomorrow so it is totally useful
wraeth



I shall post summat if I ever get any time off ever again
bristle-krs

new 'un:

flv online converter
http://vixy.net/flv_converter
converts embedded flash videos off places like youtube to more convenient formats (.avi, .mov, .mp4, .3gp, .mp3 audio)
Ninjadmin

that's pretty cool
bristle-krs

LiveLeak
http://www.liveleak.com/
Video sharing site, with validation/points process
bristle-krs

Democracy
http://www.getdemocracy.com/
Open source internet TV and video RSS download/vlog/video podcast manager
J

was going to post that tv links site

http://tvlinks.voodeedoo.org/index.html

but its bee taken down

"maintenence and legal issues" apperently
hiccup

This is a most useful thread. Wll done all involved
bristle-krs

completely forgot this one:

LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/
Blog-focused social networking community
bristle-krs

Zooomr
http://beta.zooomr.com/
Photo sharing site, "Flickr on steroids"
bristle-krs

edited and added to - imdb, tinyurl, mappr etc
bristle-krs

Joomla
http://www.joomla.org/
open source content management system for publishing web content using MySQL database (includes RSS feeds, blogging, search functionality, printable page, polls etc)
hiccup

Blockposters
http://www.blockposters.com/
Make big posters out of multiple A4 images.
Dunno if it's strictly web2.0, but cool nevertheless.

Not dissimilar to The rasterbator
bristle-krs

updated, and i've tried to tidy it up a bit, and make it more useful by arranging all the sites mentioned into types
bristle-krs

expanded and incorporated here:

http://bristle.wordpress.com/webtools/

feel free to use the text

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<h2><strong>Backup services</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.gamecopyworld.com/">GameCopyWorld</a>
Online backup site for legally-owned games
<h2><strong>Blogging</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"> Blogger</a>
Blog publishing platform

<a href="http://www.jaiku.com/">Jaiku</a>
Microblogging platform

<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/"> LiveJournal</a>
Blog-focused social networking community

<a href="http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/"> Movable Type</a>
Blog publishing platform

<a href="http://www.pownce.com/">Pownce</a>
Microblogging platform

<a href="http://www.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>
Tumblelogging platform

<a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>
Microblogging platform

<a href="http://www.typepad.com/"> TypePad</a>
Paid-for blogging platform, including features like moblogging, photo albums, multiple author supprt etc

<a href="http://wordpress.org/"> WordPress</a>
Blog publishing platform
<h2><strong>File conversion tools</strong></h2>
<a href="http://vixy.net/flv_converter">FLV Online Converter</a>
Converts embedded flash videos off places like youtube to more convenient formats

<a href="http://keepvid.com/">KeepVid</a>
Download streamed videos

<a href="http://www.zamzar.com/"> Zamzar</a>
Free online file converter, currently a 100mb limit, links stay active for 24 hours
<h2><strong>Folksonomy, social bookmarking &amp; tagging</strong></h2>
<a href="http://del.icio.us/">deli.icio.us</a>
Social bookmarking service

<a href="http://www.digg.com/"> digg</a>
Technology (and other) news site with non-hierarchical editorial policy ranked by users

<a href="http://givealink.org/">givealink.org</a>
Non-commercial social bookmarking site

<a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a>
Music recommendation system (powered by scrobbler, which logs the music you play) and web radio

<a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/">Ma.gnolia</a>
Social bookmarking site

<a href="http://reddit.com/">reddit.com</a>
Social bookmarking site

<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">StumbleUpon</a>
Peer recommendation netowrk

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software#Social_bookmarking">Wikipedia: List of social bookmarking</a>
<h2><strong>General internet tools</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.dnsstuff.com/">DNS Stuff</a>
DNS tools, WHOIS access etc

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/">TinyURL</a>
Makes really long URLs tiny

<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">World Clock</a>
The time in different time zones
<h2><strong>Image hosting &amp; sharing</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/"> Flickr</a>
Picture storage, hosting, organisation, tagging &amp; sharing resource

<a href="http://www.fotolog.com/"> Fotolog</a>
Photoblog site

<a href="http://www.fotki.com/"> Fotki</a>
Social network based on picture and video sharing and hosting

<a href="http://www.glowfoto.com/"> Glowfoto</a>
Photo sharing social network

<a href="http://imageshack.us/"> ImageShack</a>
Free image hosting site, with account facilities available

<a href="http://www.mappr.com/"> Mappr</a>
"Interactive environment" based on geographically-tagged pictures on Flickr (currently US-focused)

<a href="http://www.myphotoalbum.com/"> MyPhotoAlbum</a>
Photo sharing site

<a href="http://www.photobucket.com/"> Photobucket</a>
Picture/video sharing and hosting

<a href="http://www.smugmug.com/"> Smugmug</a>
Picture sharing site

<a href="http://beta.zooomr.com/"> Zooomr</a>
Photo sharing site, "Flickr on steroids"
<h2><strong>Image tools</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.blockposters.com/">Block Posters</a>
Make big posters out of multiple A4 images

<a href="http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/">The Rasterbator</a>
Creates large, rasterized multi-page PDFs from images you upload
<h2><strong>Maps &amp; mapping</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.frappr.com/">Frappr</a>
Social mapping

<a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a>
Satellite mapping and imagery

<a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a>
Basic mapping

<a href="http://www.mappr.com/"> Mappr</a>
"Interactive environment" based on geographically-tagged pictures on Flickr (currently US-focused)

<a href="http://www.multimap.com/">Multimap</a>
Basic mapping
<h2><strong>Online storage &amp; file sharing</strong></h2>
<a href="https://www.box.net/">Box.net</a>
Online storage and file sharing (1GB free, hosted forever)

<a href="http://upload.divshare.com/">DivShare</a>
Online storage, sharing &amp; hosting (unlimited, 200MB per file, hosted forever)

<a href="http://w10.easy-share.com/">Easy-Share</a>
Online storage, sharing &amp; hosting (unlimited, 100MB per file, hosted 1 month after last DL)

<a href="http://amd.streamload.com/">MediaMax</a>
Online storage and file sharing (25GB free, hosted forever) (formerly AMD MediaVault)

<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/">Megaupload</a>
Online storage and file sharing (unlimited, 500MB per file, hosted 21/90 days after last DL)

<a href="http://www.sendthisfile.com/">SendThisFile</a>
Online storage and file sharing (unlimited, speed throttled on free accounts)

<a href="http://www.senduit.com/">senduit</a>
Temporary online storage and file sharing (unlimited, 100MB per file, hosted up to 1 week)

<a href="http://storeandserve.com/">Store &amp; Serve</a>
Online storage and file sharing (unlimited, 100MB/250MB per file, hosted 30 days after last DL/forever)

<a href="http://www.shoutfile.com/">SHOUTfile</a>
Online file sharing and popularity website (unlimited, 50MB per file, forever)

<a href="http://viddrop.com/">Vid Drop</a>
Picture hosting &amp; sharing (unlimited, 500KB/2MB per image, 20MB per ZIP, forever)

<a href="http://www.yousendit.com/">YouSendIt Lite</a>
Online storage and file sharing (unlimited, 100MB per file, 7 days, bandwidth/DL limits)

<a href="http://www.zshare.net/">zSHARE</a>
Online storage and file sharing (unlimited, 100MB per file, hosted 60 days after last DL)
<h2><strong>Podcasting, audio hosting &amp; music</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.b00mb0x.org/"> b00mb0x</a>
Hosts your mixtapes and music compilations for free - based on a collaborative WordPress blog and self-uploading by FTP

<a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a>
Music recommendation system (powered by scrobbler, which logs the music you play) and web radio

<a href="http://www.multiply.com/"> Multiply</a>
Social networking site with emphasis on free hosting for your audio, video, images and other files, plus messaging, blogging etc

<a href="http://www.odeo.com/"> Odeo</a>
Podcast recording and sharing site

<a href="http://podomatic.com/"> podOmatic</a>
Podcast-based blogging &amp; social networking site

<a href="http://www.skreemr.com/">SkreemR</a>
Audio search site
<h2><strong>Random fun stuff</strong></h2>
<a href="http://artpad.art.com/gallery/">artPad</a>
Online doodle tool
<h2><strong>Sharing &amp; collaborating tools</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.basecamphq.com/">Basecamp</a>
Web-based project management application

<a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs &amp; Speadsheets</a>
Online paperwork

<a href="http://www.highrisehq.com/">Highrise</a>
Web-based shared content management application

<a href="http://www.scribd.com/">Scribd</a>
Open library of documents
<h2><strong>Social networks</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.bebo.com/"> Bebo</a>
Social networking site, sort of like a prettier MySpace

<a href="http://www.communities.com/"> Communities</a>
Social networking site with forums, guestbook, messaging &amp; other features

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>
Social networking site - the poshe, real name MySpace

<a href="http://www.faceparty.com/">Faceparty</a>
Social networking site, with emphasis on pulling

<a href="http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/">Friends Reunited</a>
Social networking site with clunky interface and emphasis on contacting people you never liked anyway

<a href="http://www.imeem.com/">imeem</a>
Social networking site with emphasis on content sharing

<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/"> LiveJournal</a>
Blog-focused social networking community

<a href="http://www.multiply.com/"> Multiply</a>
Social networking site with emphasis on free hosting for your audio, video, images and other files, plus messaging, blogging etc

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/"> MySpace</a>
Social networking site with forums, messaging and other facilities

<a href="http://www.okcupid.com/">OkCupid</a>
Social networking site, with emphasis on dating, and surveys

<a href="http://virb.com/">Virb</a>
Social networking site with lots of swishy content sharing features

<a href="http://www.wayn.com/"> WAYN (Where Are You Now)</a>
Social network based around travelling

<a href="http://uk.360.yahoo.com/">Yahoo 360º</a>
Social networking site from the stone age
<h2><strong>TV &amp; film</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/"> IMDb (Internet Movie Database)</a>
User-editable database of movies, TV shows, the people and organisations that make them. With forums, messaging, user-generated lists etc

<a href="http://www.imfdb.org/">IMFDb (Internet Movie Firearms Database)</a>
Wiki database of guns in films

<a href="http://joox.net/">Joox</a>
Online video aggregator (DivX)

<a href="http://keepvid.com/">KeepVid</a>
Download streamed videos

<a href="http://www.ovguide.com/">OVGuide</a>
Online Video Guide aggregates online video websites

<a href="http://www.tv-links.co.uk/">TV Links</a>
Online video aggregator

<a href="http://www.videostored.com/">Videostored</a>
Online video aggregator (DivX)
<h2><strong>Video sharing &amp; hosting</strong></h2>
<a href="http://blip.tv/">blip.tv</a>
Video sharing site with RSS distribution and DL capability

<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/gb">Dailymotion</a>
Video sharing site

<a href="http://www.getdemocracy.com/"> Democracy</a>
Open source internet TV and video RSS download/vlog/video podcast manager

<a href="http://video.google.com/">Google Video</a>
Video hosting/sharing site

<a href="http://www.ifilm.com/">iFilm</a>
Video sharing site

<a href="http://www.liveleak.com/"> LiveLeak</a>
Video sharing site, with validation/points process

<a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">Metacafe</a>
Video sharing site with DL capability

<a href="http://motiono.com/">motiono</a>
Video sharing site

<a href="http://one.revver.com/revver">Revver</a>
Video sharing site with DL capability and video publishing platform

<a href="http://www.twango.com/"> Twango</a>
Media sharing site

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>
User-created video sharing site with DL capability

<a href="http://www.vmix.com/">VMIX</a>
Video sharing site

<a href="http://www.youare.tv/">YouAreTV</a>
Video sharing community with RSS distribution and social bookmarking

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/"> YouTube</a>
Video sharing/blogging site

<a href="http://www.youare.tv/">Wikipedia: Comparison of video services</a>
<h2><strong>Web desktops</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.netvibes.com/">Netvibes</a>
Personalisable start page

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop#Comparison_of_web_desktops">Wikipedia: Comparison of web desktops</a>
<h2><strong>Web publishing</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.joomla.org/">Joomla!</a>
Open source content management system for publishing web content using MySQL database (includes RSS feeds, blogging, search functionality, printable page, polls etc)
<h2><strong>Wikis, wiki software &amp; user-edited databases</strong></h2>
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/"> IMDb (Internet Movie Database)</a>
User-editable database of movies, TV shows, the people and organisations that make them. With forums, messaging, user-generated lists etc

<a href="http://www.imfdb.org/">IMFDb (Internet Movie Firearms Database)</a>
Wiki database of guns in films

<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a>
Free wiki software

<a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki">Muppet Wiki</a>
Wiki about Muppets, Jim Henson, CTW etc

<a href="http://coolestradio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page">TCWE (The Coolest Wiki Ever)</a>
TCTE-linked wiki of cool stuff

<a href="http://tumblepedia.net/wiki/Main_Page">Tumblepedia</a>
Wiki about tumblelogging and Tumblr

<a href="http://www.wikia.com/">Wikia</a>
Wiki community hub

<a href="http://www.wikidot.com/">Wikidot</a>
Free wiki hosting

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/"> Wikipedia</a>
User-defined, edited &amp; maintained encyclopaedia, based on collaborative authoring

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis">Wikipedia: List of wikis</a>
hiccup

Holy shit dude, that's a long list
bristle-krs



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