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Awesome Web Apps: Everything Else

There are so many more awesome web apps out there, many of which I don't use yet or only occasionally for now. Here are a few that come to mind:

Friendfeed: Basically ties in all your accounts together and lets you share that with friends. For example, it will notify them every time you post pictures to Flickr, post videos to YouTube or post on your blog. Nowadays, people have so many accounts that many developers are trying to find ways to join them together. This is one of them.

Digg: One of the most popular news aggregators. I use some of its feeds through my Google Reader.

Flickr: Popular picture sharing site.

Last.fm: Site that lets you listen to music and recommends new artists to you based on the music that you like.

Besides these, there are many more awesome web apps out there. Which ones do you use that I did not mention this week? What makes it awesome?

Posted by Fernando Torre on June 8, 2008 1:00 AM |

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A few:

  • MovieLens -- rate movies, get recommendations, support UMN research
  • Ohloh -- open source software-based social networking. Pretty fun to look around in.
  • Trac -- not a single web app, but a really slick integrated wiki/bugtracker/source browser used by a variety of mostly OSS projects. It makes documentation and development quite easy, by allowing wiki pages, bug reports/tickets, and version control check-ins to all cross-reference each other using a simple link syntax.

Posted by: Michael E | June 8, 2008 12:32 PM

Google Toolbar allows you to see the PR of websites you visit, a great tool for webmasters / entreprenuers.

Posted by: Ken Walker | June 8, 2008 2:04 PM

Scribbls: Because my supervisor and his friend created it. It's also a lot of fun. You take two drawings and make your own which is supposed to be an outcome of the two.

On the topic of Trac, I use Assembla. It's free and they give you 500MB or so of web space to use. It has integrated Trac along with its own social networking for your project like a Wiki, team messages, forum, etc. Real useful for projects.

I use Twitter sometimes... I'm not a huge Twitterer, but it comes in handy.

Google Reader is an amazing web app, I use it every day. It lets me keep up with all the blogosphere news, as well as YouTube videos and Hulu shows.

Speaking of Hulu, I just started using it the other day. They've got full episodes of Daily Show and Colbert Report now along with The Office. It's all legal too!

Posted by: Kamran | June 20, 2008 9:53 AM

Hey! I saw part of the Scribbls presentation at MinneBar! I was just passing by outside and just had to stop to see what it was about. The public really seemed to be enjoying the presentation.

Posted by: FernandoPR | June 20, 2008 10:32 AM

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