Month: May 2007

Sometimes Search IS Broken!

ACrappySearchEngine

Now, this is the future of web search:

How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine only returns the results you are looking for?

You can’t. That’s why ACrappySearchEngine.com returns results from all across the web regardless of what you search for…

Now some people will say our service isn’t useful but to that we say, “Look Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis and every venture capital company we pitched this too – what people really want is to discover what they weren’t looking for! Heck, Columbus was searching for India when he found America and that seemed to work out for everyone didn’t it?”

Just what we all need!

coRank

CoRank

CoRank is a site which lets you create your own social bookmarking sites, which are hosted at yoursite.corank.com – a similar kind of thing to what Ning does with social networks.

This is a great way for small groups to share information through weblinks between each other, without going to the trouble and expense of setting up something like Pligg on a server.

I’ve set up a CoRank at http://virtualcommunities.corank.com/ – feel free to join it and have a play. I’ll still be using del.icio.us as my main bookmark repository though.

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Operator11

Operator11

Operator11 looks like a truly groundbreaking social web service: it’s a social television network.

It’s like a live version of YouTube (though you can upload preproduced video if you want) but what makes it a real killer for me is that other people can request to be involved in your show, you can have them on the air instantly. This is, as far as I can see, all through a web based flash interface.

Jasaon Calacanis hits it on the head:

It’s like giving a CNN newsroom to a MySpace dude

Yet more of the walls separating those who create media and those who view it are being torn down.

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LGSpace – coming soon!

LGSpace

Am currently beavering away on my latest project in the LG* stable. Let me know in the comments if you would like to be involved in development testing, or would just like to know more!

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Zoho Notebook (beta)

Zoho

Zoho are one of my favourite web 2.0 companies. They provide pretty much best of breed web applications: cool stuff like a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentations, online meetings, wikis, and oodles of other stuff

Anyway, their latest little number is Notebook, a web based notetaking application. This isn’t just Windows Notepad online though: with Zoho’s Notebook you can add just about anything to a note: text, images, videos, audio, chunks of HTML, RSS feeds, entire web pages. Your notebook can also include word processed pages, or spreadsheets using the relevant Zoho tool.

I really get can’t across just how feature rich Notebook actually is. Try this video, instead:

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All the other Zoho apps, taken together, provide a great platform for transferring your productivity to a web based approach. Notebook, though, is something else – probably the most comprehensive web application I’ve come across.

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