On 11.24.09, In Tips/Tricks, by pads
Google Wave is one of the latest applications Google is touting at the moment and it’s got some hype – people are clambering high and low to get invites. But is it the ultimate online collaboration tool? Google Wave incorporates external bots and plugins to aid collaboration, although it isn’t clear just how many people use them.
Many of these bots and gadgets are limited in their use at the moment, mainly because most Wave users aren’t completely clear on how Google Wave will work best for them. In the coming months, we expect there to be some real standout applications that help push the Wave service to new heights.
Only time will tell (collaboration is only as powerful as the people using it) but in the meantime we’ll show you 5 things you can do with Google Wave right now by using bots and gadgets.
Please Note: We are also giving away some Google Wave invites, click here for more information.
Over the last couple of days you may have noticed an inconspicuous toolbar located at the bottom of every article on WillINeedIt. This toolbar is provided by the pioneering web based instant messaging company Meebo and will offer the functionality to log into your favourite instant messaging services anywhere on the site!
Not only will you be able to chat with friends on a multitude of different networks, you will be able to share images, videos and the pages themselves on Facebook, Twitter and Email as you browse the website using the impressive “Drag To Share” function. To take advantage of this, simply hover over the content you wish to share and you will be asked to drag the snippet to the location of your choice (shown in the screenshot below).
Users can also share content with their friends as they chat, again by dragging the specified image or video into the dialog box of the person you are chatting with.
On the far left of the toolbar is the option to share the website instead of particular parts of it. To take advantage of this, click the “Share Page” button (shown below).
We hope that you enjoy being able to read and share our content whilst chatting with friends, if you have any comments or suggestions, drop us a line in the comments section.
It can be a difficult task trying to manage all of your online identities that you use on the internet. Chances are you already own at least one email address, you are registered on a social networking service and interact with likeminded internet users via instant messaging and services such as forums.
Whilst there are quite a few tools that allow you to consolidate your online usernames and identities, one service that distances itself from the rest is Chi.mp, a service that does just that and also gives your own domain and website in the process.
I was lucky enough to gain a beta invite for this service a few months ago and have been actively using it so I could take advantage of it’s features but also review it for WillINeedIt. Chi.mp is now out of beta and available for all to use, this article aims to explain it’s multitude of features and how you can use it with maximum efficiency.
Remember a while back when there was a post about TweetMyPC on WillIneedit? Well, they recently came up with TweetMyMac, which essentially does the exact same thing as the PC varient of it. While I personally do not own a Mac, I did find this to be a convenient tool for remotely administering my friend’s Mac and thought it would be interesting for Mac owners to be able to learn about this tool.
If you have been reading WillINeedIt for a while now, you will have noticed that we display a TweetMeme counter displaying the number of “ReTweets” a certain post gets via Twitter. This is a way of gauging how many people are sharing our posts and allows us to be able to connect with them again in the future.
Today, we have moved over to a new ReTweet button, one created by a certain John Resig. This ReTweet button plugs into the URL shortener we use on this blog; Bit.ly and will display the amount of people that have used the link to visit a page on this blog. If you are interested in learning how to place this inside your own blog, follow the instructions after the jump.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter, wake up, pull yourself from under that rock you have been living under and look in. Twitter is a game changer, it has singlehandedly evolved how the internet masses communicate, all within 140 characters. You may have an account or have thought about creating one but worry about finding relevant people to follow and have people follow your activity. Today, we aim to list eight simple tips that will allow you to kick-start your Twitter experience and enjoy all the service and it’s user base have to offer.
If you are a regular reader of technology websites, you may have stumbled across this toolbar on your travels. Located at the bottom of these websites sits the Wibiya toolbar, an embeddable script that sits on top of your website and integrates services, applications and widgets.
The Wibiya toolbar has seen a massive rise in adoption, mainly because it is free, it can be added by placing a simple line of code on your site and does not require any hacking or coding to make it play nice with your website.
Just three days ago, we published an article on how Google had introduced social features to their online services. At the bottom of the article I mentioned how it was possible Google would push live new features without many people knowing it was coming, today they did exactly that.
Google Reader now has the option to share feed content via a number of different social networks. We will show you how to access this and have your feed reader setup to spam any number of different services.
On 08.10.09, In Cool Websites, by Patrick
Ah yes, Bing. The revolutionary search engine by Microsoft that might, take over the search engine market. The difference between Bing! and Google, is that Bing gives you more “smarter” results. Google you spew every single webpage that has your search terms.
Bing! will have more websites that are worth your time to look at. A recent study showed that more and more people are transitioning to Bing, though Google is still far ahead. However, Microsoft has a new partnership with Twitter, and that might change everything.
Bingtweets a “combined” search engine. When you search something such as “pork chops”, the search engine will not only search Bing, it will search Twitter updates too.
When Twitter launched, it was all about text and how you could interact with friends. As more and more tech users came to the service with their fresh ideas and practices, Twitter became a place to share links and photos, helping it become of of the world’s most popular social media services.
Most of Twitters users interact with the service using internet equipped devices or from applications on their desktop, many have said it has helped the service gain so much traction. With the release of a video enabled iPhone 3GS last month, the service opened up to another possibility, video sharing.
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