Make your own Digg

July 3, 2007 at 3:36 pm | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites | Leave a Comment

Yes digg is a concept that cannot be ignored. If Kevin Rose had only patented his successful vote-gain-karma concept, he would be raking in millions. There have been so many imitations of Digg , that its not even surprising anymore. Then there is Reddit and other digg like sites that are going great guns themselves. Yes the idea is nice, vote for top content on a site and let more and more users see it. Its nothing more than a filter for the top content on a site, its easily discoverable too. Supposing you were to make your own Digg, what would you do. Well, here are a couple of options :

For non webmasters : try coRank and its recently released make your own digg site. You just sign up and can create an exact clone of digg, suited to your categories or your interests. You could probably start a digg for music review, movie review, latest news articles or even software hacks. Whatever the category , you can have your digg up and running in no time.

For webmasters : Try pligg, its a deploy ready framework that can be deployed on your apache and mysql. Its essentially the same, but you take care of the hosting and the space. Its a cinch.

So you diggin yet ?

PlayMyGame – create your own games

June 6, 2007 at 12:04 pm | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites | 1 Comment

The last time it was elfyourself which was a rage, and now it might be PlayMyGame. The site lets you create your own game where you feature as the main character, there are a wide variety of games to choose from like boxing, swat me etc. You can even embed them in your Myspace or blogs. A nifty little comment system lets you and your users write comments that people can read when they come to the game. I have embedded two games of mine, have fun punching and shooting me

Link: PlayMyGame

Link: PlayMyGame

I shifted, remember? so should you

April 17, 2007 at 5:45 pm | In Architecture - Design, Blogroll, Cool Web 2.0 Sites, D/w-BI-Analytics, General, Suggested Reading, Tips,Tricks and code, Web 2.0, Web News, gyaan, rant, socionets | 1 Comment

 I have moved my blog to my personal space but continue to mirror content here because there are many who still read this blog. I see a lot of feeds pointing to this blog rather than my new space. Please update your bookmarks and RSS subscriptions to my new space.

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Social Radio and its influence

April 16, 2007 at 1:42 pm | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites, Web 2.0, gyaan, socionets | Leave a Comment

After a tiring ordeal learning in and outs of Adobe Flex, I got some time to unwind,  play my guitar and get some much needed rest. I wanted to listen to this song by a particular band, but didn’t have in my collection. I googled for it and came across a bunch of Internet radio based sites which revolved around some amazing concepts of social music and thought I should write about it.
  
   I had written once about Music 2.0 and the different services that were there that helped popularize and sell DRM free music. My first pick was definitely Last.fm

 
 
  Last.fm gives you an embeddable radio that you put up in your blog or website and play music from a particular genre. Just provide your artists name and Last.fm will suggest bands that play the same kind of music and will play them one after the other in your radio. Its again social music, so you can suggest your friends a particular band or a particular style of music, write reviews, give ratings etc. I got to hear some amazing bands thanks to Last.fm

     Followign close behind is Pandora. An initiative of the Music Genome Project, pandora and its flash based player streams quality music. Its plays a mix of songs from the artists that you want to listen to and those that play the similar kind of music. Worth taking a look. I found some really neat music on Pandora.

    My old time favorite live365 provides thousands of radio stations that people broadcast. Ads are played in between songs for revenue, but there is a VIP alternative that you can buy for very less. You can even start broadcasting your own station if you choose. There are some really interesting music stations that play some really cool music. Worth taking a look.

   Yahoo’s LAUNCHCast service has been around for ages. Probably my first internet radio experience came when I unknowingly clicked the Launch button in my Yahoo messenger. Launch has got a big big load of songs that you can listen to. Also considering that Yahoo is launching its own music player, Sansa Connect,  in association with Sandisk that plays Launch music in a wifi spots for a price of $15 per month subscription. Both Sasa connect and launch will be things to look out for in the future.

  There are other services like amiestreet which recently launched the first DRM free album by Barenaked ladies and then there is Slacker who has ambitions of becoming the Rupert Mudroch of online audio. Think thats enough for you guys to get started

 

 
 

Wikisky – Space map

April 12, 2007 at 2:11 pm | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites | Leave a Comment

There have been a lot of mapping applications recently, see this consolidated set of services. So, whats next, its wikisky. A mapping app of the universe with lots of details. I have been a big fan of all things space right from space shuttles, star trek , star wars, x files all the way  up to Men in Black ( who hasn’t). But thats where my obsession ends and reality begins to dawn. Gazing at a night sky is still as intriguing to me as it was ten years ago and I was only more than surprised at these applications.

There is the wonderful open source stellarium which is used by many planetariums nowadays, but wikisky was just amazing.  check it out :-)

For the SEO – Popularity and Statistics

April 6, 2007 at 10:31 am | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites, Tips,Tricks and code, Web News | 2 Comments

Note : I blog on my personal space at riteshnayak.com/blog . This is a mirror of the content.

Popularity/statistics apps are dime a dozen these days. I first covered competitious, Microsoft’s ad center tools, statsaholic and now its Popuri.us. The site gives you the URL’s Page Rank, Alexa rank, compete rank, Yahoo backlinks , Live search backlinks , technorati links and more.

Good for the budding SEO’s  of the new era.

Im moving ….. to my personal space

March 28, 2007 at 3:39 pm | In Architecture - Design, Blogroll, Cool Web 2.0 Sites, D/w-BI-Analytics, General, Tips,Tricks and code, Web 2.0, Web News, gyaan, rant, socionets | 2 Comments

It was long due, but, finally I got my own domain riteshnayak.com and will blog there. I have installed wordpress on my server but couldn’t automatically redirect from here.

Please visit my personal site here

RiteshNayak.com

for my blog visit

RiteshNayak.com/blog

People using feed readers, please change your subscription to this address.

http://riteshnayak.com/blog/feed

I shall try and maintain both the blogs with common posts, but I cant promise anything with the amount of time I have left to blog.

Possibilities of Apollo

March 15, 2007 at 11:41 am | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

I have been bragging about the new Apollo platform and how web development will be affected because of these platforms. Well Apollo is a platform like the JVM which enables web developers to build applications for the desktop using web based languages like html, action scripts etc. Flex of course being a very essential part of the platform. Developers can leverage the capability of Apollo to extend web functionality to desktops. It could prove a major winner with all the startpages like netvibes, pageflakes, Google personalised home page etc gathering storm. Modern day OS’s like Vista and Panther also have widgets built into the very fabric of their desktops. Yes widgets are the future and will rule the world in the next 5 years :-) seems like the nth time i have said it.

Alright, enough gibberish. I came across these bunch of applications that were demoed at the Adobe Engage. To take a look at what these things are capable of please take a look at these sites.

A calendar, writer , lists and more organizational stuff with the ability to work offline.

  An online Office application built entirely in flash. I hear its got excellent typography and pagination. Could be a competitor in the race to the online office automation prize.

Also dont forget to check out start page yourminis and my favorite photo editing tools fauxto and picnik.

Yahoo Pipes – taking mashups to a whole new level.

February 18, 2007 at 11:41 am | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment

Yahoo is really going after the mashup craze, releasing some amazing products one after the other. The latest in their offering is Yahoo Pipes. Let me be honest, I was totally astounded at the brilliance of this wonderful product. Forget sites making mashups of content, in pipes any user with little bit of an IQ can create his/her own mashup feed and publish it.

Get from any RSS /ATOM source , combine, tailor, sort add, rename and mix match all the feeds to create your own mashup of content, be it yours or someone else’s.

Pipes was inspired by Unix Pipes, which provides a mechanism of communicating between two process, share information and basically, do wonderful things. I , myself remember the time when I studied and implemented a small unix pipe as a part of my curriculum. Well , Yahoo now lets you pipe your content from many sites and lets you make a mashup of them and publish them. One look at the site and you will see people creating content like price alerts, news feed from top news sites, top blogs , property searches in and around teh bay area etc. As I always say, possibilities are endless and I appreciate yahoo for supporting such an amazing idea and giving it out to their customers.

Mashups are big and pretty soon, it will take over as home page in many browsers. Makes sense, doesn’t it? A feed of all the things that I wish to keep in touch with, this could include videos, phots, news, blogs and many more. Take a look at this pipe based mashup I created , this basically is my entire online syndicated presence. Feeds from three of my blogs and also photos from flickr.

Me Online : http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/GokWYhC_2xG_AmTHZYQMOQ

A screenshot of how I created the pipe :-) ( marvel at the complexity !!!)

Social Network for Change

February 7, 2007 at 9:09 pm | In Cool Web 2.0 Sites, socionets | Leave a Comment

Socionetting is nothing uncommon, but socionettign for something good isn’t. Yes thats what Change is about to change. Change.org is a social network that will let users join “changes” aka groups , which will change the way people interact with Non profit organisations. They already have listed almost every NPO possible, so you just join any cause that you feel worthy or something that youare just passionate about. It could be anything from world peace, to global warming, compulsory primary education to more. You can join a change and let others know that you support the cause.

Obviously you can donate to the Changes by credit card but for those who aren’t really the donating types, you can donate time by participating in certain events that happen in your locality. Finally I see a positive angle to social networking   :-) , do you want to change the world ?

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