Tag: SOCIAL SOFTWARE

This is part 3 of a 4-part series on uploading photos to Flickr from your Linux box (part 1 looked at jUploadr, & part 2 touched on Digikam). I'm assuming you already know what Flickr is and you have a Flickr account, and now you want to bulk upload photos to Flickr from your Linux box. In my case, I'm using Kubuntu, but the software I cover should work for you regardless of distro. Our ...

This is part 2 of a 4-part series on uploading photos to Flickr from your Linux box (see part 1, which covered jUploadr). I'm assuming you already know what Flickr is and you have a Flickr account, and now you want to bulk upload photos to Flickr from your Linux box. In my case, I'm using Kubuntu, but the software I cover should work for you regardless of distro. Today let's take a look at ...

This is part 1 of a 4-part series on uploading photos to Flickr from your Linux box. I'm assuming you already know what Flickr is and you have a Flickr account, and now you want to bulk upload photos to Flickr from your Linux box. In my case, I'm using Kubuntu, but the software I cover should work for you regardless of distro. Our first app up to the plate is jUploadr. ...

AOL has announced that they have acquired Userplane, a company that builds communication software for online communities. Userplane applications are primarily developed in Flash, using the Flash Communication server. This makes it extremely easy for developers to plug it into their websites. The Userplane suite of software includes: Webchat - a multi-user Flash-based chat interface, that can ...

HiveLive is an online application designed to keep track of busy lifestyles. HiveLive is currently in beta form, and offered by invitation only. Which is a real drag, since this could be a useful online application for a ton of people. I have had the chance to play around with HiveLive for a bit, and think it's a pretty useful application. Not a lot is said about this application on the front ...

Another collaborative ratings site, Filmcrowd (beta), is born. Filmcrowd is, as you might guess from the name, focused on movies. Gibbity, which you can't guess from the title, is more of a games site, but uses the same social aspect. The two sites are from the same folks, in fact. Tags and collaboration are the key here. For instance, you can create a focus group of sorts, with users who find ...

The twist is, Click.tv isn't just yet another web video service. Click.tv has a demo on their site, which hasn't fully launched yet. The first thing to catch my eye were the comments, spread across a type of leaderboard, when you hover over the video. Each note is keyed to a time in the video, so your comments aren't out of context. Each person's notes are assigned as a track, which you can turn ...

True to his word, Michael Robertson announced eyespot today, a web-based video editor. This is part of his ajaxLaunch site, where they'll be launching a new ajaxian app each Wednesday. I'm sure NVU is heading for the ajax treatment any time. This is a neat trick, but there's a social aspect to it as well. You can take videos and clips from other users, and remix them into your own. That, in ...

Dion Hinchcliffe has a lot of things to say about this Web 2.0 everyone's chomping about, that's no surprise. And it's also no surprise that he'd toss out a "best of" list here at the top of the year. Actually it's a "most promising" list, and worth a look, as there are some new spins on old favorites (like Campfire from 37signals), and lots of new goodies all the way around. ...

Pandora and Last.fm are both services that purport to recommend music to you based on your musical preferences, but in different ways. Pandora lets you pick a song and then recommends song with similar musical qualities. Last.fm, on the other hand, recommends music based on the preferences of other people who like some of the same music you do. Blogger Steve Krause used both Pandora and Last.fm ...

It was only a matter of time before someone combined a social links site like Digg with one of the web's favorite pastimes, shopping. Clipfire lets you "clip" good deals found on the web. Deals with lots of "clips" get promoted to the "Popular Deals" page. Sound familiar? It has a search function but notably missing are any sort of categories or tags that would make ...

John C. Dvorak's latest column is about Yelp, a new site that combines social networking a la Friendster to restaurant and business reviews a la Epinions. If you're looking for a restaurant you can see what others have recommended and their ratings, plus other places they've rated, what their friends have rated, and so on. As Dvorak says, "If it turns out that a person likes Denny's and hates ...

While we've featured similar tools in the past (like ScrapBook), Clipmarks is a tool that saves snippets of web pages that has the distinction of storing them online. While there's danger inherent in trusting services that keep your data on a remote server, Clipmarks's value exceeds (for some) that of ScrapBook and others because it's a social service. Like del.icio.us or other social bookmarking ...