This is awesome. Somebody took the time to go through the cloud of web 2.0 sites available, categorize them and then rank and award them. If you are looking for inspiration for a site you are working on, look no further.
Goowy provides an email and IM interface along with online storage. Great interface.
Interviewer: "Do you have an iPod?"
Balmer: "No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
Flock keeps getting better and better. Besides already having one of the best browser interfaces, the latest builds of Flock have added a choice when ‘starring’ a site of sharing with everyone (via the social bookmarker of your selection) or only between your computers. In addition, in just creating this post, I see that they are starting to do some heavy refacing of the blogging window. If you aren’t on Flock, you’re missing out!!
This killer Coldfusion-based flash application provides a fullscreen (within your browser window) visualization of current news.
I know winter is over, but you’ve done this: You want to lounge around with your laptop and cover up with a blanket. Problem is that you either need to keep the blanket below your arms to use your computer or do some weird thneed-like thing with it to keep it between your arms and out of the way. What if your blanket had sleeves? The Slanket does!
Chax adds needed features to iChat like tabs and growl support.
CNN has a fantastic new layout that is standards-compliant, wide and beautiful. The new site is 980 pixels wide. WooHoo. I’m for anything that aids in stretching web users expectations of what a site is. Monitors are wider, let’s use them.
This awesome umbrella was in this month’s WIRED mag. It receives radio signals that tell it what the chance of rain that day is, then blinks it’s blue handle to communicate that you to you. See the umbrella blinking madly near the door on the way out? Better take it with you!
Think secret reports locations of the many new Apple Stores expected this year and Omaha’s Village Point mall is on the list.
After reading this interview, I’m more impressed that I was before with the ability to dual-boot XP on an intel mac.
VW’s new Gypsie interface allows you to sync with iTunes, dock your iPod and access both with a fantastic interface in the dash. Wow.
Here's stuff we looked at during <cfgeek> on Wednesday morning
There’s a lot of pages out there trying to be the perfect page to set your browser home page to. PopURLs is about the best I’ve seen. It pulls in all of the top headlines/links, etc from sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, furl, and flickr.
Google has made another acquisition of a cool ‘web 2.0’ site. It has purchased Writely, an online word processor that uses AJAX methods to create a product that is cross platform, cross browser and pretty snappy to use. A year ago or more I think I would have been pretty excited by this, but Google’s releases lately have been, in my opinion, real yawners demonstrating some lack of focus. When they were releasing one great ‘product’ after another, there was no one that I would rather see pick up a site like this. Now that Google is starting to become a bit of a Yahoo, I don’t know. On the other hand, if you put together their email system with the in-development calendar, their as-of-yet unannounced file storage, and now a word processor, you are starting to have all of the elements of your computer on the web. That may be huge.
Microsoft announced and showed off the new Origami at CeBit. Haven’t had much time to take a good read of it, but sure looks cool.
You knew it would be coming. I’m just surprised it happened this soon. You can now subscribe to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and Colbert Report on iTunes. You pay $10/show and you get the next 16 episodes (one month). Get both and that’s $20 a month, but considering that that’s about all I keep cable for, it could be a great deal.
If you have a Tivo (or are thinking about getting one), better do it quick. Next week, Tivo plans to pull it’s lifetime subscription plan which allows you to pay a one time fee of $299 and never pay the monthly fee. Apparently they have decided it’s too good of a deal.