How do you share a bunch of websites with grandma? Normally, you would put all the links in an email message and send it across.
This is fine but imagine if your list of websites is long – that would require her to make way too many clicks and she will also end up opening several browser windows on the desktop.
When DivShare launched in 2007, they offered unlimited storage space and would accept files as large as 200 MB. You could even hotlink to images hosted on Divshare from your own blog / website and thus save bandwidth bills.
The shortest path between two Wikipedia articles is defined as the minimum number of clicks required to move from one article to another. This can be used to discover connections between topics that are completely unrelated.
Listen and Write is an interesting online application where you listen to audio clips on the web and type the spoken words at the same time. The audio clips are syndicated from a news website and are always about current events.
If you are looking for current prices of your favorite stocks, head over to Yahoo! Finance. They now display stock quotes in real time though it’s currently for US based equities only.
Forbes says that Jumpcut is the most promising service among web based video editors. They compared JumpCut with MotionBox and PhotoBucket from MySpace but surprisingly missed Adobe Video Remixer available on YouTube.
"Jumpcut makes it easy to duplicate a video, so you could add multiple effects by cutting a video into two pieces, doing the editing [...]
While there are tons of tools that let you download web videos with ease, MovAVI offers one unique feature - it can join multiple videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Break.com, etc. into one single file all by itself that you can later download in any format.
MyStudiyo is an interesting web-based quiz making software that lets you create multimedia quizzes and also tracks reader submissions.
Register a free account at MyStudiyo, give your quiz a name and then start adding questions. You can add as many questions as you like and may even supplement quiz questions with HTML text, hyperlinks, images or even YouTube videos.
How do you calculate area of that garden in the backyard of your home ? Or how do you measure size of an outdoor swimming pool or a football stadium?
Well that’s very easy if you have Google Maps. Using the built-in distance measurement tool of Google Maps, we can quickly (and fairly accurately) measure the circumference and area of pretty much any location on earth.
Google Wiki (aka Google Sites) is now openfor all. Please stop reading this post and visit Google Sites immediately because if you are late, someone else may grab your favorite URL(s).
Google Sites will offer no SEO benefits because all external links include rel=nofollow.