Here’s a cool site that’s an online directory of widgets. It’s sorta like Digg, a type of social network where you can submit, rate, and find widgets for your website.
Heck, we might even submit out Beer Widgets and see how it does.
Widgiland is a directory of online widgets. It houses thousands of widgets for web, desktop and mobile platforms. Users can select widgets for their blogs and personal web pages, for forums and email, for feeds, and search and for messaging among other things. Widgets are categorized by type and by platform, for instance iGoogle, Pageflakes, and NetVibes.
Digg will still hold its traffic as it has been steady with a large number of bloggers using the service.
For Yahoo Buzz to get even more popular, they need to open it up to all the bloggers, not just via invites.
I am sure this will happen soon and Yahoo Buzz might take a big share of the social networking market.
Furthermore, Yahoo Buzz has a more diverse audience than Digg. While Digg’s young, male, techy audience has been the stuff of legend since the site’s beginnings, 51% of Yahoo Buzz’s visitors are women. This doesn’t matter much to the users but it does matter a great deal to the advertisers; another legend has it that diggers never click on ads, and this might not hold true for Yahoo Buzz.
iRead, is a Facebook/MySpace application for organizing your favorite books.
It looks like a great niche social network done right using Facebook app as the piggyback method.
Great job guys, keep up the great work! They are also making apps for other social networking sites, maybe it’s time that they create one of their own under their domain name. (That might be the killer revenue for them and also build a brand…)
iRead is an application and online community for book lovers. Once registered, you list, rate, and write reviews about books you are reading or what you have read in the past. Based on your reviews and preferences, you can find other readers with similar tastes, and check out their reading lists and recommendations to find more books you might enjoy. You can also browse randomly through other users’ reading lists and reviews. The iRead application for Facebook has already become very popular, with over one million registered users.
No More Notebooks, a social shopping bookmarking service was just launched.
Basically, it’s a social bookmarking service so you can make/save/share your favorite shopping list.
Although there’s already a big array of shopping social networks out there, (my favorite is wists) No More Notebooks might be able to be successful through it’s price comparisions and through more innovation.
There’s always plenty room for new sites especially at the rate the internet is growing today.
My name is Luke Harrison and I have recently finished my final year project for my New Media degree at The University of Leeds, UK.
For this I have created a brand new social networking website based around creating wishlists. The website has been built entirely from scratch single-handedly by me and I am now hoping to take it past a university stage and into the real world. I would therefore like to submit it to your startup review. There are still a huge number of features to be added over the next few weeks/months but I still feel the current product is something really useful to the online consumer.
Mento, a bookmarking service similar to Del.icio.us, has just launched. The only difference Mento does is that it’s really oriented so you can “send” your bookmarks to others using Twitter and social networks.
They are using beta invites so you need an invite to try the service out.
The service does look promising but only time will tell its success.
Beyond the features typically found on tagging sites, Mento strives to simplify sharing links with friends by allowing users to import and interact with their Facebook contacts. The site also differentiates itself by keeping track of how many times a link you’ve shared has been clicked, and which members have clicked it.
Mento can be used either with bookmarklets in your browser’s toolbar or as an extension that appears as a button (available for both Firefox and IE). The extension isn’t intrusive, but it doesn’t seem to offer much extra functionality over the bookmarklet at this point (though this will likely change in the future).
GeoGraffiti was just launched. It’s basically a geo-tagging GoogleMaps with your voice. You can tag your voice notes to any GPS location basically.
Now in public beta, GeoGraffiti is a free “Verbal Bulletin Board” that allows you to record and share location-specific voice notes, or “Voice Marks”, whether you’re on the go or in front of your computer. Find a new coffee shop that you love? Call up GeoGraffiti, and leave a Voice Mark to let the world know.
Digg, a popular Web2.0 social networking service, is working on a new comments system that will supposedly be faster than ever. In the video, the narator describes the new comments system without AJAX. I can’t understand how that could be faster without AJAX, but still looking forward to the new comments system.
One thing I’d have to suggest Digg is to make their submit system faster in the future.
Wow, it’s been a fun ride with our new site, SiteHoppin.com. Although we haven’t really made that much money off traffic, the good news is that we’ve “doubled” our network traffic as whole in just 2 weeks since SiteHoppin’s public beta launch!
It’s great that our traffic is going up, but how can this help you? Go submit your blog posts at SiteHoppin‘. (The more you bookmark, the more it will get distributed to the SiteHoppers)
Check it out if you want to see our site being revamped live.
On another great note for year 2008 and 4am in the morning, we got a new knol project called http://knolproject.net. Right now, we don’t have anything on there but we are planning to “open-source” the paid wiki concept to let everyone get in the new “paid wiki” wave. Basically, we will teach you how to make a wiki site like the One Buck Wiki or the new Google Knol Project. We are currently accepting any freelance developers to contribute and share ideas for the site so if you are interested in community development, shoot us an email at zedomax [at] gmail.com and you will be included in our exclusive list of developers for the new open source project.
