BBQ. Nothing Interesting to Say? Plinky Hopes to Change That - ReadWr. Like it or not. You're a writer. You're creating content on a daily basis, updating your Facebook status, commenting on blogs, sending tweets. Social networking requires that level of communication. But as a writer, you're also a potential victim for writer's block, a condition that plagues even the most prolific authors. The next time you find your desire to write lacking, Plinky may be just the inspiration you need. What does the Plinky team know about inspiring bloggers? CEO and founder Jason Shellen has been involved in blogging since its humble beginnings. Shellen doesn't just know blogging, he's lived it.
Where Does the Inspiration Come From? Plinky is simple and straightforward. Current prompts range from making a mixtape of favorite songs to defending your vice. But Plinky also manages to provide a venue for social interaction of its own. Louis Gray got an early preview of the service. In our testing, Plinky proved to be entertaining. What Is Twitter? - Twitter Explained. Web Guide - A Guide to Web 2.0. The Internet is evolving, and Web 2.0 is changing the way we interact online. This web guide will help those new to social media gain an understanding of social networking, social bookmarking, social news, personalized start pages, wikis, widgets and other aspects of the new Internet that can help in connecting with others, increasing productivity or having more fun. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 represents the evolution of the web from a social tool to an integrated part of our society and the world.
But while it has become the buzzword of the decade, it is still often misunderstood. Personalized Start Pages A replacement to popular search portals like Google and Yahoo, personalized start pages let you gather what is important to you in a central place and are increasingly being used to boost productivity by keeping up with to-do lists and acting as an event scheduler. Social Bookmarking and Social News Social Networking Web Mashups Widgets Wikis. Is It Stupid to Trust Twitter Apps With Your Password? Twply, the Twitter site that promised to email your replies to your inbox while protecting your password, appears to have tweeted a promotional message for the service on your account even if you opted out of this option. To add insult to injury, the site was sold today on Sitepoint for $1200, just one day after launch. The site, which required you to enter your Twitter password, has now sold that confidential data to the winning bidder - site user worldbuyer.
Here's the Twply pitch from Sitepoint: The site launched last night, The site provides a service to take @replies and send them to email.The new owner will need to have a SMTP server with no limits to handle all the emails the server will be sending out.Twply has been spread through twitter like nothing I have ever seen before, over 800 accounts added in one day. What's worldbuyer going to do with your private data? Thumbizy: Generate Thumbnail Images Of Any Website | MakeUseOf.c. Task Manager: Springpad Helps You Get Things Done. For me, as somebody who rigorously dislikes giving too much personal information to "the cloud"...regardless to wich company it belongs...Springpad can't ever be my choice! I distrust such "user information gathering" companies, espacially google, as far as I don't use any personalized tool/service like gmail, gcal, gdocs, igoogle and so on.
And this has nothing to with paranoia, but with common sense and reason. So you could think the offline/oldschool "pen and paper" method seems to be my kind of prefered tool? Not at all - to inflexible and inefficient to use it alone! I reommend a TiddlyWiki modification, monkeyGTD, to get your daily tasks organized. For those who are not scared of editing a few lines of sourcecode and dislike David Allens "Getting things done" mehtodolog, monkeyGTD still offers a powerful basis to setting your own tagged base orga-system! ...and not in any "trendy cloud" ;) Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: EtherPad. "The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page" Doesn't Google Docs already do this? This is their answer " No. Google Docs is a suite of products that do many things, from word processing to spreadsheets to document management. One thing that Google Docs does not do is real-time collaborative text editing.
We think this is an important use case, so we built EtherPad with real-time collaboration as the focus. For example, with Google Docs it takes about 5 to 15 seconds for a change to make its way from your keyboard to other people's screens. EtherPad stacks up favorably in other ways as well: Google Docs are cumbersome to share with other people. Of course, EtherPad is a tool for a specific purpose, and depending on your needs, Google Docs may still be a suitable option for working together on documents. EtherPad.