8apps is a social network for productive people. The name itself tells you that it is a combination of 8 applications to increase your productivity. Currently only 4 apps have been implemented, Handshake (social network), Orchestrate (task management), Blueprint (brainstorming) and Pinpoint (meetings).
Hand Shake: Handshake is a social network application of 8apps. You can create a profile, browse other user profiles and contact other people.
gleamd is the new social network in people marking.
What is gleamd ?:
“Users write a short biography or find publicly available information on a person they find to be interesting and submit it to gleamd by clicking “add person” on the menu bar. If others also find that person to be interesting, they can vote on it. First they’ll make it to the recently popular que, then the top 3 if they’re really cool!”
gleamd is like spock, but the concept is slightly different. Spock indexes people information from other social networks, wikipedia etc. Whereas gleamd depends on its users, users can submit interesting peoples profiles or vote on existing ones.
Current all time popular people list includes Kevin Rose at the first place and followed by Merlin Mann.
This is an interesting concept and has the potential to grow big if their user base embraces it.
I have 5 invites for gleamd, drop a comment if you would like to test it.
Sometime its frustrating to wait for an invite for a web service to try out. Now a days all web2.0 sites are launching as private beta before they go public. Invite Share makes it easy to get invited to private betas, it is a good concept and has room to grow big.
How it works:
To get invitations register for inviteshare and browse the sites. Find the site for which you want the invite and add yourself to the list and wait for the invite. It may take a few mins to few days to get an invite i guess depending on the waiting list of users. I got few invites in less than 10 mins, the wiaitng list of users for these sites is less.
You invite other people to improve the probability of getting invitations to yourself. The more invites you send the more you will get.
Update:: This site is live on 7th Jul 2007 and it is already at Sitepoint Marketplace for auction selling.
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Rediff launched a social media sharing network named iShare. You can share videos, music and photos using the network.
If you are a rediff user you can login with your rediff ID and start using the site. To upload files you need to download a desktop client and install to your system, this looks something strange for me. Considering the internet speed in India it may be good idea to have desktop client to upload videos but for photos and music they would have given the web based uploader. I always fear to install rediff’s software, if you have ever installed rediff messenger you know what i am talking.
Update: The author of the blog promptly removed the post and he said he don`t know about how to reference the links to other blogs posts as he is new to blogging. In response to his prompt action i am altering the post.
Two weeks back i wrote a post on Top 20 wordpress plugins i am using, the post became popular and getting lot of hits. It became the 2nd most popular post on my blog. Today i came to know that some one copied the post and published it as it is with out changing anything. (see it here).
Recently i got a chance to check VeohTV, for those who don’t know about VeohTV it is a desktop application that lets you watch, upload and download video from popular video sites.
VeohTV is a killer application in the internet TV space. Like Joost and Babelgum it lets you watch TV over PC, you can search all the popular video sharing sites, you can also watch TV programs from ABC, CBS, FOX, MTV and a lot more. VeohTV also has a [tag]youtube[/tag] channel where you can recently popular, most viewed today and top rated videos.
It allows you to add video RSS feeds, download videos, organize your favorite collection with tags from the desktop client.
Microsoft Research unveiled a new product called Livestation which streams live TV over PC. This is slightly different than Joost, it only streams live TV.
Livestation is a P2P broadcating service built on Silverlight technology platform. It is currently in beta and will launch fully in october. Currently available for windows, the application will come to Mac soon and will aventually work on mobile devices.
Last week i posted about pownce, Kevin Rose’s New startup. Today i got an invite from Shankar Ganesh to pownce (see his review). I got 6 invites to send, if you need one drop a comment.
Pownce features i already described in my earlier post, what i didn’t know at that time is the pro account feature. A pro account on Pownce will cost $20 per year, with it you can send larger files of up to 100MB file size and you won’t see any ads on pownce.
I have been playing with a Firefox extension called ThumbStrips, this is a quite nice tool it makes screenshots of the sites you visit.
ThumbStrips makes a filmstrip of thumbnails of the web pages you visit, so that you can go back to them and see what you browsed. In other words this extension makes thumbnails for your history pages, you can exclude sites for which you don’t want to store thumbnails.
Once you install the extension it starts taking thumbshots of the pages you visit, a small icon will appear on the Navigation toolbar, you can click on that to see a slideshow of thumbstrips created. The thumbstrips appear as a frame in the bottom of the browser window, you can click on any thumbstrip to visit that web page.The created thumbnails can be saved and shared with friends.
Thumbstrips is a product of Innovation Lab. You can download the ThumbStrips extension from Mozilla site
From past few days i am playing with Inkscape, a open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape functionality is similar to Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand or Xara X, it uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.
So far i am impressed with Inkscape functionality it has. Inkscape is not as powerful as commercial software but it offers a clean and nice interface. Inkscape documents are saved in SVG format, you can also export to various formats including PNG
