10Apr
Things I’ve tried
Werkzeuge | aka-aki, bloglines, brands4friends, friendfeed, kyte, meinVZ, seesmic, socialthing, Twitter, Werkzeuge
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I’m amazed at the number of services and web2.0y things I’ve tried out in the past few weeks. New services just keep popping up like mushrooms it seems. No doubt, most of these will vanish again at some point or be bought to be integrated somewhere else. Here’s a list, without any specific order for you to check out, or not. Your choice.
- Aka-aki, a mobile social network based in Berlin, could actually become something big I believe
- Socialthing, an aggregator service, currently in closed beta (comment this if you want an invite, I have 2)
- Friendfeed, the more popular aggregator service for anything social media
- Bloglines, my favourite RSS reader. Still in Beta for V2.0, but works fine
- Twitter, the most talked about, most hyped of the past few months, useful, fun, boring, waste of time, depending on how you set it up
- Brands4Friends, a closed shopping community
- Seesmic, a video chat site, not really tried it out yet
- kyte.tv, fun to play with and stream pictures, audio, and even video live to your blog, from your mobile!
- meinVZ, the StudiVZ for grown-ups. They launched mid-March, promised to port my StudiVZ account, but didn’t since. Useless.
- Hobnox, a German video site, currently in restricted beta. They streamed the re:publica panels live.
- Be completely offline for a week in Lisbon – Worked!