Hastags
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
Uses:
Conferences: “rubbishcorp’s slides on guff were great. #presentation”
Events: “#blogfest blogfest is ace.”
Memes: “My #themeword for 2008 is dinosaurs.”
Context: “I can’t believe anyone would bother reading this far #rubbiscorp.com”
Recall: “Buy some fags (cigarettes). #todo”
So there.
Favithumbs
Your del.icio.us bookmarks visualized. Thank you James.
Pieratt
Some designs.
Cuss-o-meter
This little beauty counts number of pages on your blog or website that contain swearing and compares it to the total number of pages. The result indicates approximately what percentage of pages on your website contain naughty words. That number is then compared to a percentage of all the other websites who have used the Cuss-O-Meter, giving you an idea of how foul-mouthed you are when compared to the rest of your interwebs.
Welcome to the Periodic Table of Videos
“Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this ‘modern’ version will have a short video about each one”.
Search Twitter
The same as Summize, which I guess having just bought, they simply repurposed.
“Summize is a popular service for searching Twitter and keeping up with emerging trends in real-time. Like Twitter, Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with our own and integrated under the Twitter brand”.
Blow Up Your Flickr
See your Flickr photosets in a great-looking, fullscreen display.
Via AR again…
Thsrs
Enter a long word, receive shorter synonyms.
HyperHappen
This is an ace (planning style?) Blog from the lovely people at HyperHappen. I was going to post some of their stuff today, but there’s quite a lot, so it’s far less hassle to just push you to them and then you can see for yourself.
Be sure to put them on your reader.
Will It Blend?
iPhone 3G
Lively
Google have launched lively, a virtual world style chat experience in which you can communicate and express yourself using avatars in ‘your very own space’. You can choose an avatar and use it to make friends and chat. Plus, you can create rooms, decorate them to your liking and invite your friends over
It’s just like Home/Second Life/Chat Rooms.
A Slide From The Business Plan
From the delightful iminlikewithyou…
‘New’ Nike ‘Viral’
Isn’t this:
Just this:
Only lazy and not as smart or as original…
Swurl
Swurl is really interesting, ‘It’s a place to bring all the things you do online together to share in a blog-like format’. What I like about it is that it does just that, you basically just carry on doing your interwebs and it automatically brings everything you do together in one place. It’s dead easy to set-up and use and the timeline interface contraption (see below) is really engaging. It covers a loads of relevant sources (mine are left) and although it’s struggling to interface with my wordpress and the front end is pretty basic, mostly it seems to work.
Get yours here.
Viral Video Chart
The Viral Video Chart is a site that basically collates info from YouTube and Google etc, plus loads and loads of blogs and social networky places to see which online videos people are talking about / viewing and posting the most. They count the number of times each video is linked and the number of times each video is embedded. From that they publish a list of the top 20 videos that generated the most buzz the previous day - which is a pretty good yardstick of what’s hot and what’s not on your interwebs.
The upshot of all that is that you can find meaningful stuff like this: