Webware Software Nominations

Feels more like Ireland these days - had been raining a bit the last two weeks. Life has been hectic over the last two weeks since I last updated the blog. Have changed direction from wireless broadband to green energy, but more about that in the future.

I received email from two of my programs that I use - Me.dium and BlogRvr, to say they have been nominated for the WebWare 100 2007 awards! So, being the obliging user that I am I promptly toodled over and voted. I am way behind with everything at present. I have only just updated my podcasts this week and am catching up on all of May. Oh lord, my ears are ringing.

Anyhow, on to other things. A friend from South Africa sent me a link to an 8 minute video from South Africa on YouTube titled 'Battle at Kruger'. It is spectacular if you love wildlife, as any self respecting South African does. Some more great videos at the same area. One about poking a big cat (Leopard released back into the wild, and it got a bit upset...) and you should not do that to a leopard, unless you are willing to bear the consequences. And consequences there were alright.

On to WebWare nominations in the social networking section. Most of them are all old familiar friends, LinkedIn, Me.dium, FaceBook, Friendster, Bebo etc. One curiously named one that caught my attention was Squidoo. They allow users to create 'lenses' into their world and passions. You can build your own lense, or just browse others'. If you go over onto the site, look in the bottom right hand corner for 'things you did not know'. One of them is 'Where to find weird and whacky news'. Cute site. Worth browsing.

Next is Tangler. Now this is an interesting one. I haven't spent much time on it, but it seems to have a discussion forum on testing of Web 2.0 sites that I have never heard about anywhere. THAT is going to keep me busy for a while. LOTS of fascinating stuff! Anyhow. It is linked on my del.icio.us links page if you miss it. I will definitely be exploring some of these.

Now here is another one that most of us could use at some stage or another - Yelp! It is a review of restaurants or shops by the people for the people! Only one teensy weensy little problem. It is American only at this stage. There is one for Ireland though called MenuPages. It is super! It is not as extensive in terms of coverage as Yelp is trying to do, but for eating out, it is great! Would it not be great to get a site that links them all together?

It is great to see that Web 2.0 IPO's are successful again. Blinx has made its debut on the boards and seems to be going strong. That is fantastic because I think it is a great site with real products, not just proposals of what it is going to do. I still browse it regularly and I still think it is great. To me it is the Google of video.

OK, that is it for today! Happy browsing! And, if you get bored, head over to Virb and sample some music, or just go Stumble, else watch some videos on Blinx!