The Internet Inferno
ONLINE POLLING TOOLBOX: 40+ Online Polling Sites
There's an election next year, and already blogs and websites are taking polls to see exactly how the candidates stack up. It's good news for polling startups, with the launch of another one, SubmitYourVote, last week. Here are more than 40 ways to assess readers' opinions on everything from politics to your fashion sense. Buzzdash - Start polls on topics including news, sports, politics to relationships, philosophy and religion. Doodle.ch - Users can create and publish polls that can be sent to friends and families. Dpolls - Create as well as vote on polls for free. Easy-Poll - Multiple colors for your polls and options for ranging from a simple "yes/no" to multiple choice questions. EmbraceMobile - Site for carrying out market research surveys over cellphones for things such as user opinions, customer satisfaction or brand awareness. FeeFo - Tool for getting feedback from customers, ratings, opinions, and reports. FreePollKit - Lets you insert HTML snippet polls into your existing site.
The Great Flickr Tools Collection
Looking for Flickr Tools, hacks and services for a powerful photo sharing experience? Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization , making image management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more! Flickr claims to be the best online image management and photo sharing application. You can start uploading your photos (like jpeg, jpg, gif, png etc.) on Flickr easily via the web or use uploading tools for Mac and Windows to make it easy to upload a batch of hi res photos all at once. If your are a Flickr newbie, read How to get the most out of Flickr. Note: Some of the unlinked tools are possibly discontinued and are retained for archival purposes. Official Flickr Tools Flickr Uploadr -Download an installer (.exe) that allows you to publish a batch of photos into Flickr directly from your computer. Third Party Flickr Tools
Spell with flickr
Please send me comments, suggestions or questions, kastner@gmail.com. I love getting emails about Spell with Flickr - and all my programming projects. It was just a few hours ago that I posted my Goals for 2008 and I'm releasing my first project of the year. It's nothing big, but it was a fun little distraction. The hide-an-image-in-text-with-css3-creator-thing If you're one of those folks who might care about how something like this might work, here's the source. read the rest at Meta | ateM Spell with flick grabs images from flickr (the One Letter and One Digit groups) and uses them to spell what you've typed in.
40+ Free Blog Hosts
So it seems all we ever speak about is Wordpress, but don't forget that you have options when choosing a blog platform. Here are 40 free ways to get started.Danga Software Powered GreatestJournal.com - Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons. InsaneJournal.com - Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements. JorunalFen.net - Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various "fandoms" (i.e. LiveJournal.com - One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Themed Blog Sites Blogabond.com - A site dedicated to travel blogs with map integration and more. BlogCheese.com - A video blogging website. BusyThumbs.com - A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images. Freevlog - Designed for video blogging and completely free. Trippert.com - Create and share blogs of your travels. WordPress Powered
Flickr Have Mind: best photos
Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr database of photography. Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of Flickr Hive Mind, you may have been led here from one of them. Welcome to Flickr Hive Mind, almost certainly the best search engine for photography on the web. Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: tags(keywords); Flickr photography groups; Flickr users, their contacts, and favorites; free text; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness.
Five Card Flickr
INSTANT MESSAGING TOOLBOX: 90+ IM Tools
Instant messaging is said to be one of the most popular forms of Internet communication for teens today, beating out email thanks to the lack of spam and instant feedback. With SweetIM adding support for AIM today, we thought we'd take a look at how the IM market is shaping up. And for those who think 90+ IM clients are too many for anyone to handle, we wholly agree: that's why a good number of these are actually tools to aggregate all your IM buddies in one place. Popular IM Clients Google Talk - use GTalk for your voice calls, voice messages, file transfer and Gmail notifications Skype - high quality calls to anyone, anywhere in the world Yahoo! AOL Instant Messenger - communicate with AOL registered users via text, voice, and video Windows Live Messenger - connect and share instantly on the world’s most popular IM network ICQ - the world's first instant messaging program mICQ - a free text-based ICQ client that runs on a wide variety of platforms Gadu-Gadu - the most popular IM in Poland
Flickriver - A new way to view Flickr photos and more...
How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr
Yes, the absolute correct way! I previously asked how you credit a CC photo from Flickr. Since then I’ve been doing my research and here is the results – The correct way to credit a photo. You need to follow the guidelines set by the license. I’m only going to address attribution. According to Creative Commons you need to: keep intact any copyright notices for the Workcredit the author, licensor and/or other parties (such as a wiki or journal) in the manner they specify;include the title of the Workthe URL for the work if applicableIf you are making a derivative word or adaptation, in addition to the above, you need to identify that your work is a derivative work i.e., “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author].” or “Screenplay based on [original work] by [author].” My addition/suggestion Let the author know. That is a lot to include. Example 1. The monkeys are here! Originally uploaded by Librarian by Day blog this test Example 2. Example 3. Example 4. Example 5.
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: 50+ Social Bookmarking Sites
With the acquisition this week of a shopping bookmarks service, and strong rumors of another bookmarking service being acquired, we thought it was time to reflect on how the social bookmarking space shapes up these days. Here are more than 50 of the top social bookmarking sites available. Social Bookmarking i89.us - Export to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs. AllMyFavorites.net - Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family, access from any computer. Backflip.com - Check out the most popular links each day, set "The Daily Routine" as your homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease. BibSonomy.com - Public & private bookmarks, tag cloud, related tags, duplicate detection with the chance to merge their info. BlinkPro.com - Dynamic folders, bookmark all links of a page plus all the usual features. Bluedot.us - Tabbed user page showing a network of friends, bookmarks, and related tags. Yahoo!
