A Few Neat Tools and an Update
February 8th, 2006In working on my new project (collecting Web 2.0 Company blogs), I’m coming across an array of tools that I figured I’d share.
+ Stock Digg - “StockDigg is a financial website that provides investors access to major financial news as well as user-submitted stories (e.g. stock picks and analysis) and individual stock rankings by investors. With StockDigg, users rank stocks and submit stories, which are reviewed (i.e. ranked and tagged) by other investors. Only the most timely, relevant, and valuable stories go to the front page.”
+ Opmlmanager - “Opmlmanager is an online webservice that makes maintaining your own opml-file very easy. This opml-file can be a file that is part of a distributed directory, like the ipodder directory, a subscriptionlist, a readinglist, a file you use for taskable.com, etc. The outline-structure of your opml-file is represented in a foldertree that can be edited with a click of your mouse. You can easily add, edit and delete nodes and links.” (I havre to play with this a bit more to see if it does anything different than the OPML Editor.
+ Books We Like - “Books We Like is activist e-commerce and collective intelligence. It’s a non-profit service for book (and music and film) lovers, for promoting and discovering great stuff, and for supporting social-change non-profits through your online purchases.”
+ TagTooga - “TagTooga is the Wiki for categorizing the Web. Anybody may contribute and edit.” (tags, wikis, ratings, etc)
+ Stikipad - “StikiPad is a hosted wiki solution (What’s a Wiki?) that gives you an easy way to organize and share information with others. We run completely in your browser with no downloads and easy administration, letting you take your StikiPad wherever you have access to the Internet. But don’t be fooled by the word easy - it’s only as easy as you want, and as powerful as you want it to be. StikiPad is like a blank piece of paper - you decide what you’re going to make of it.” (Reminds me a bit of Pbwiki)
+ Instructables - “Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff.”
As a side note, I’m using the OPML Editor to collect the Web 2.0 blog feeds for the reading list (URL for the OPML will follow in a few days I hope). This way, I can have a valid OPML file to work with and share with others. I’ll probably dump the OPML into the Bloglines account every week or so. Bloglines should really get on board with reading lists so it could update the file automatically. 
Rebecca pointed out in the comments section a very useful recource from Phil Bradley that I forgot about. I’ll use it to gather company blogs. Thanks Rebecca.
Also, this list will probably become a community list at some point