Faceoff: The Best Start Pages for Your Browser. What are the most useful Chrome extensions. Beautifully Designed Web Apps. There are a great many web apps out there competing for attention – with new web apps launching every day. In order to stand out and compete, not only do they need to be functional and adept at solving a problem, or helping a visitor get a task done, they also need to stand out by being simple to use and user-friendly.
Even if you build a superb functioning web app, if it doesn’t have a simple & intuitive user interface and design, there’s a good chance that users won’t stick around long enough to get used to it and are less likely to visit again. We’ve selected a showcase of web apps that have put a lot of thought, care & attention into their design and interface, and have gained a loyal fanbase as a result. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. You may also want to read the related posts below. Hipmunk Hipmunk aims to solve the problem of finding the most convenient, or cheapest, flight using a beautiful and intuitive user interface. Mint. Top 35 Google Chrome Extensions and Web Apps For Bloggers, Web Designers and Developers.
When Google launches Google Chrome Webstore, people where all flocking to chrome webstore to install and get the latest web application, chrome extension and newly added themes for theme to try it out. For today’s post, we will be featuring 35 Brilliant and Notable Chrome Extensions and Web Apps for Bloggers, Web Designers and Developers. As a web designer myself, I already tried and used some of the extensions and web apps we posted here. If you want to try it for yourself, you can go to Google Chrome Webstor e to download and install some of the web apps and extensions there. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. You may also want to read the related posts below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 20 Things I Learned About Browser & The Web 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
Desktop customization tool. What is Foursquare? You may have heard this morning that foursquare is launching in the UK. And if you haven't, shame on you for not having Pocket-lint open all day. If you don't know what foursquare is on the other hand, then that's a whole lot more forgiveable seeing as the service only started in March this year at the SXSW technology, music and film extravaganza.
So, for the majority of us... What is foursquare? In a nutshell, it's a location service-based social network-come-game. What it does in effect is to tell you where your friends are and add a little fun to going out in the evening. It's like Google Lattitude meets a little bit of Facebook, a touch of Twitter, a dash of Qype and even a twist of World of Warcraft. How does it work? The whole system is based around what is known as "checking-in". And what about the game? The clever, or clever-er, part is that you get points for checking-in. The really clever part How do I start? Can anyone use it? Well, yes and no. Your Social Dashboard. No lists found. Bottlenose Beta. Calling All Students! Download Our New Student Mobile App: Wetherspoon Unlocked.
New Startups - Showcasing the brightest new startup ideas. Stealth. Wander leaderboard. 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites.
His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent. At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” Storify is currently invite only. 2. Scoop.it is often described as Tumblr without the blog. 3. 4. Scoop.it. The Best Alternatives to Delicious. Group's Social Startups To Watch in 2012 | Meltwater Blog. 2011 is coming to a close and we’re reflecting back on the year.
We’ve witnessed a huge explosion in social sites and we’re highlighting some of the best. While tech, social media and social networking are some of the hardest industries to predict, with their rapid changes, failures, merging and selling, we’re still interested in seeing what some of our favorite social startups will do in 2012. So, in no particular order, our top social startups to watch in 2012: Tumblr : This isn’t a blogging site, it’s a sharing site.
Tumblr has been in the game for a while, but in 2011 it finally saw the massive growth it deserves. But why? Well, for starters it’s a great product, and without much push or change in its product its attracted tons of new users, with about 15 million unique visitors per month . Spotify : Finally made legal in the U.S. just a few months ago, Spotify has been a massive international sensation. Airbnb : Couch surfing is so last year, not to mention unsafe(!) The Social Cloud: Promising Social Media Startups for 2012. The Social Cloud: Promising Social Media Startups for 2012 While Facebook continues to dominate the Social media scene and rumors abound as to its next acquisition (probably Digg according to some people) many more startups are joining it by providing services somewhat different from the usual. Promising Cloud Based Social Media Startups to watch for in 2012 include Tumblr, Pinterest and Wooplr.
Tumblr While it may seem like Tumblr.com is just another blog platform (or in their own words: microblogging) like WordPress and Blogspot, in reality it is much more like a social sharing site for pictures, text, media, video or whatever else that strikes your fancy, with more emphasis on the social than the media. The very design of this startup is streamlined so that you have minimal text and super-easy access to get your quotes, pictures, images and media online and into the Cloud where it resides for others to look through and interact with.
Pinterest Wooplr By Muz Ismail. 6 Startups to Watch in 2012. An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we're more excited about the startups. Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose companies based on the momentum they gained in 2011, promising new takes on old problems and, in one case, the possibility of an IPO. Did we look at every startup in the world before compiling this list? Nope. 1. Skillshare is an online marketplace for offline classes. While the startup began with classes clustered in New York City, it now has budding communities in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and elsewhere. 2. We're pretty sure that the mobile, local version of Craigslist will gain traction in 2012. 3.
LevelUp users link any credit or debit card to their LevelUp accounts the same way that Starbucks links a gift card to its app. Since launching in October, the app has signed up more than 100,000 users and has about 1,000 businesses. 4. 5. 6. Startups to Watch: 2012. Startups to Watch While the world may be on the cusp of apocalypse there are also many startups to watch in 2012. We wanted to share some of the most interesting start ups to watch in the technology industry this year.
Some of these have already gained some recognition in 2011 and we believe that many of them will become household names as the year progresses. Dwolla hit the ground running last year by becoming one of the first companies that allows users of social media sites to easily purchase products by linking their bank accounts to their Dwolla account. As a matter of fact, they transferred over $1 million shortly after forming their online business.
So whats the fee? Payments of up to $10 are free and anything larger costs $0.25 — which is cheaper than paying a credit card fee. In December, the company launched a new feature called Instant that lets users pay on up to $5 of credit while waiting for bank transfers from their accounts, making this process instant. RockMelt Blog. Minglewing.
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