HARDWARE, SOFTWARE & TECHNICALITIES -- Internet -- Web publishing & Web readers (N-Z)


Netvibes                                                                                                                                  16 July 2006
drag & drop modules build a flexible home page combining RSS feeds, Web mail, weather reports, Flickr photo streams; No login; remembers setup for future visits from the same computer; See also My Yahoo!;

NewsGator                                                                                                                               13 April 2005
news sites, weblogs, NNTP(Usenet) newsgroups; supporting RSS syndication subscription services; 8 May 2006: iUpload enterprise blogging partnership enabling publishers, corporations etc to use social media technologies to build communities, increase revenues & share information; 7July 2007: 
NewsGator free online RSS reader database of 1.5m feeds Windows 2000+;

Notepad.co.uk                                                                                                                         23 April 2003
Tutorials, reviews, forums discussions, reference sheets & source code libraries for HTML, PHP, Javascript, Flash, Dreamweaver, Apache, MySQL, Linux, etc.Nova: Non-visual access to digital library iInterfaces by visually-impaired

Notlong's wrapup of short link generators                                                                                 31 July 2003
short link generators - default links, expiration, statistics & custom links available, API availability, languages being checked; see also TinyURL below

NVU Mozilla Public License(MPL) open source web authoring system                                    3 August 2006
for Linux desktop users, MS Windows & Macintosh rivalling FrontPage & Dreamweaver; Integrated file management via FTP, HTML code creation for most browsers; tab between WYSIWYG Editing Mode & HTML; forms, tables, & templates;

Okapiland Explorer                                                                                                                 28 March 2005
Web search, RSS reader, & news aggregator uses Yahoo, Google, Technorati APIs; requires Java, Google API key, Yahoo application key, Technorati;

Omea Reader RSS/ATOM feed reader, newsgroup reader, & web bookmark manager         13 October 2004
fast searches, flexible filing, contextual access, extensibility; Personal Reading Environment; manage RSS/Atom newsfeeds & newsgroups; organize stored pages & bookmarks; free download(3.2Mb); must download & instal Microsoft's .NET Framework version 1.1 (24Mb); import feeds from other newsreaders using OPML; import bookmarks from all versions of IE & Mozilla, including Firebird & Firefox;

Onfolio(ver. 2.0) Collect, organize, share RSS news feeds                                                     26 February 2005
publish to email, weblogs & web sites; integrate Feedster, work with Firefox; 12 March 2006: Onfolio's technology incorporated into MS Windows Live™ Toolbar - discover, save & reuse personal & professional Web research..

Online presentations                                                                                                           23 June 2008
Ways to quickly create presentations onlineZoho Show 2.0, Google Docs, 280 Slides, Slide Rocket

On the Verge of Revolution - Open-access Publishing                                                            14 July 2006

OpenVlog  free web-based service to record, upload, encode, publish & share video              19 January 2006
no software to download or configure, works with all computers including PCs, Macs & Linux boxes; uses Flash technology to convert, encode & display videos, upload video clips; supports most video formats; Max duration for video clips uploaded is five minutes;

OPML Editor download(Outline Processor Markup Language)                                               7 August 2005
XML format for outlines developed by Radio Userland as file format for an outliner application & other uses including to exchange list of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators; an outliner, programming language & object database; How & why to create an OPML file;

OPML specification                                                                                                              24 November 2006
XML-based format for exchange of outline-structured information between applications on different operating systems & environments; sharing outlines which can consist of RSS feeds, links, audio & video files, text;
Gear Up Your Research Guides with the Emerging OPML Codes display latest headlines from blogs, feeds of new book & article titles from library’s catalog & databases, audio & video files, web links & bibliographies; automatically updated versions in RSS aggregators;

O'Reilly Network: A Primer for Accessible Web Pages                                                         20 December 2001
US government standard for accessibility by disabled; Section 508 for government Web sites, other Web sites comply. Many requirements are met if your Web site is readable in a text-only browser such as Lynx; simple steps to make sites accessible to disabled users;

O'Reilly Network: Meerkat: An Open Wire Service (Mar. 17, 2000)     
RSS definition links; Web-based syndicated content reader based on Rich Site Summary(RSS) XML specification used for distributing news, product announcements, discussion threads, etc as channels; interface maintaining association of story & channel; 

Outline Processor Markup Language: What is OPML?                                                            9 February 2004

PACmeter - Popularity, Authority, Credibility Online: How To Measure Them?                       11 August 2004

PageRank viewer                                                                                                                     10 June 2006
adds PR-bars to links on a web page. External links are marked with EX, links with a nofollow tag with a red X

Paper.li  publish a news page with information from your Twitter & Facebook connections            28 May 2011
create a page on a new topic by picking up users, lists, tags & searches; find &
read other people's papers; blog;

Parakey desktop publishing platform                                                                                         5 November 2006
connects seamlessly to web for permissions & global sharing; easy to use tools & permission options; connect to local hardware such as digital camera to retrieve & edit photos before storing locally or on server; ??? storage bandwidth will be available free with increased allocations for a price; extensibility through a programming language named JUL (similar in name to Mozilla's XUL but likely different in markup);

Persistent Identification of Electronic Documents & Future of Footnotes(Law Library Journal)   21 November 2005

Personal curation See Web Search Guide Featured Sites, May 26, 2011                                     28 May 2011
new phrase means to select & organize resources for your personal use, a personal news feed of handpicked sources; See also Personal data aggregation & publishing tools  Personal Curation

Personal data aggregation & publishing tools                                                                    3 January 2008
Lifestreaming apps like Tumblr, Onaswarm, Lifestrea.ms & Soup; Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer; Lifestream aggregator-turned-social network FriendFeed;

Podcasting Tools                                                                                                                      14 May 2005
See also BBC Radio download & podcast trial; Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Podcasting; gPodder 0.4 to download & manage podcast feeds; Win98+; Podcast aggregators - iPodder; Nimiq automatically download audio & video with podcasts, BitTorrent downloads, import OPML feed lists & synch with iTunes or Windows Media Player; free download; Podcasting Basics; Podcasting tricks; Juice cross-platform podcast receiver implemented in Python, supports RSS protocols, scans for enclosures, bitTorrent enclosures download in background; select & download shows & music for iPod, portable digital media player or computer;Windows & Mac; Podcasting & File Sharing: How The Web Is Transforing Itself - Part V; Ziepod;

Popurls mashup                                                                                                                       8 April 2006
aggregates content from a variety of sites & links to Digg, Furl, YouTube, Slashdot, Yahoo News, Flickr(includes thumbnails), Spurl, Del; submit Your Pop listings; toolbar on upper-right of page lets you change background & increase text size; quick search box;

prana3.com/tools                                                                                                                     10 December 2001
Web Design Tools: HTML, CGI, JavaScript, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, XML, CSS,
Photoshop,Flash; .free for Web developers; usability & accessibility,graphics, information on setting up a Website, promotion, handling revenue;

Professional Online Publishing: New media trends, communication skills, online marketing         15 May 2008
Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies & Web Services; Visual Communication & Video Publishing - Selected Tools & Web Services; How-To Guides; Visual Presentations - MasterViews News; New Media Tools & Services;

ProgrammableWeb                                                                                                                 8 July 2006 
lists freely available Application Programming Interfaces(API), mashup sites using various APIs; 150+ APIs, 400+ mashups

Publisher's Guide To RSS(Yahoo!)                                                                                         25 May 2005

Publishing platforms                                                                                                                5 January 2012
Annotum open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring & publishing platform;

PubSubHubbub protocol for shared items                                                                                 6 August 2009
feed automatically updates via a distributed hub model; publishers & subscribers reduce the number of actions required to serve up feeds;

Quality Framework for UK Government Website Design                                                          23 July 2002

Quimble                                                                                                                                   29 December 2005
poll-generation service for websites & blogs similar to iMediaPoll; instantly tabulated results & bar graphs displaying statistics; perfect sidebars for blog entries; polls inserted with just one line of code & accessed via weblinks as well; Free;

ReadSpeaker XT server-based speech-enabler in most spoken languages                                11 May 2006
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Norwish, Brazilian, Japanese; no downloads, installation or plugins; Windows, Mac, Linux & SUN; supports browsers including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Safari, Mozilla & Lynx;

Reallybig.com!                                                                                                                         1 July 2006
5000+ Webmaster resources including free clipart, CGI scripts, hit counters, fonts, HTML tutorials, javascripts, clipart animation, free backgrounds, icons, HTML editors, buttons, photographs, SEO & site promotion tips & tricks; forums;

References About the World Wide Web (Marcus Zillman)                                                       1 November 2005

Rich Site Services See also Atom alternative protocol for creating & updating web resources    8 July 2004
categorized registry of library services provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds. RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary/Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication; Feed-Directory.com syndicated feeds; What is RSS?How To Create A RSS Feed From Any Web Page(HTML scraping ); RSS Creation tutorial; RSS Update(Freepint, 26 July 2007); RSS(ipl.org 15 things, Jan 2010);

RSS: A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers                                                                 27 September 2003
concepts, common concerns; syndication format; simple XML tag describes changes to website; aggregators poll websites & read RSS; sharing content(headlines, news, job postings, etc.) on web; Automatic RSS Submission Tools: RSS Submit & FeedSubmitter

RSS(Really Simple Syndication) articles, tutorials, software & tools, collections                      10 February 2003
See also Great RSS Tools to manage, publish, gather RSS newsfeeds; user maintained; use wikis for PR, ethical marketing; Importance of RSS for Google covers tagging, social bookmarking, improvements in RSS technology; Search4RSS uses AJAX & Javascript to work faster; personalized content & ability to add multiple feeds; RSSCheck to verify RSS feed is working; ABC's of RSS; Search Engine Watch's series on RSS Part 1 - What is RSS ; Part 2 - RSS search engines; (1 Sep 2005) Part 3- how to select software or a service to display RSS brief reviews of 8 readers; Choosing an RSS Reader(Search Engine Watch, 1 Sept 05); RSS compendium; RSS package tracking; RSS tutorial for content publishers & webmasters; RSS 2.0 Specification; RSS: a stalled standard, but "not dead yet"?; 5 Feb 2010: Leveraging & repurposing RSS;  20 Oct 2011: Making the most of RSS

RSS-based Information & News Feeds: Pros & Cons For Content Distribution Through RSS    7 October 2003

RSS channel editor & directory(UKOLN) lists of RSS feeds.                                                   2 December 2003
See also Syndic8, RSS NewsNiche annotated directory & RSS news source 

RSS clipboard (Ray Ozzie's Weblog, 1 April 2006)
transparent cut & paste of XML data between web sites & services

RSS Digest                                                                                                                              14 January 2005
Place items & headlines from RSS or Atom enabled sites(e.g. del.icio.us or Flickr) on your site, no programming required; use JavaScript, PHP, or IFRAME; 

RSS feed editors                                                                                                                    26 January 2006
Feed Editor 3.4 - different RSS formats, import text from CSV & HTML files, edit HTML in WYSIWYG editor, edit XML & pictures, view RSS feeds & publish them, support RSS feeds export to HTML, CSV & JavaScript; Feed Mix RSS editor - create, edit, publish RSS feeds & podcasts; create new RSS feeds or podcasts from existing feeds; WYSIWYG feed editor, RSS reader, blog client, HTML editor, image editor, XML editor & FTP upload facility; Fulltext RSS Feed Builder: avoid click through step;

RSS feed generators See RSS production from HTML ('Scraping')

RSS feed filters                                                                                                                      6 December 2006
Blastfeed filters RSS feeds on any media channel, such as email, RSS or IM; all RSS formats; free; Feed Rinse for filtering RSS Feeds; register with user name, e-mail address & password; set up one feed at a time or import an OPML file; free version  limited to 5 feeds; 

RSS feeds & aggregators                                                                                                        8 November 2002
See also Aggregators; Newsplorer 0.54, Moreover, BBC, Syndic8, Feedster; List Garden RSS Feed Generator open-source, cross-platform tool create & maintain RSS feeds, produces XML & optionally associated HTML, on PC or web server, without knowledge of XML or RSS data format, supports generating RSS feeds with enclosures(podcasting); Pluck RSS reader/portal V 2.0 supports Firefox browser leveraging Firefox Live Bookmark feature; Active Web Reader v2.42 track & read new RSS feeds, monitor web site changes; auto discovery feature to browse websites as they add feeds to favorites list -Windows 98+; Gritwire free RSS aggregator/reader service/software- browse blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts; set up community networks & wiki pages; Kebberfegg Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator - generate keyword-based feeds from multiple sources with single search; enter query, categories of feeds, get list of feeds based on query in HTML(with links to RSS feeds & My Yahoo subscription link) or OPML file to import into another RSS feed reader; select categories of feeds you want to generate(news, blogs, press releases, etc) & plug RSS results into aggregator; RSS Wizard - HTML to RSS Converter & RSS Feed Generator; Feed Collectors collects & socializes your feeds; Feedreader(3.0 ) smart feeds enable you to set up rules so that each time feeds are updated they are automatically searched for terms or phrases. Copies are then placed in separate folder; RSS aggregators reviewed(Oct'06); 10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With RSS Feeds; See VersionTracker older versions; Top 5 online RSS readers(Pandia, Feb 07); Blastfeed aggregate, remix, filter RSS feeds; email notice of updates; FeedHub creates individualized RSS feed to filter relevant posts from feed sources; 6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds; Newsgator's Inbox 3.0 features enhanced relevancy, attention reporting, easy subscription adding, flag synchronization & redesigned UI; deliver news & information to your Microsoft Outlook® folders; Get RSS Alerts with IM Feeds; Regator: Mainstreaming RSS Aggregators; RSSMicro
dedicated RSS feed search engine; Invisible RSS technology in visual feed readers; Access Facebook updates from a feed reader; 30 Oc 2010: Changing world of RSS(demise of Bloglines);  Liferea 1.7 Linux feed reader compatible with all computers running Linux;

RSS feed submission tools  See Feed-Shark, FeedShot, etc.(above);

RSS filters See Persai RSS reader & filter
6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds; built-in filtering technologies illumio & Newsgator Online (compared);

RSS to HTML PHP Script(free) integrate existing  RSS news feeds into any Web page           18 August 2005

RSS For Non-Techie Librarians                                                                                              9 July 2002
Rich Site Summary feeds; an XML grammar(set of HTML-like tags) for sharing news; RSS text file contains both static information about site & dynamic information about new stories; surrounded by matching start & end tags.

RSS: Less hype, more action(Freepint No 161, 17 June 2004 )       

RSSMix specify any number of RSS feeds to be blended together into one feed                        13 May 2005

RSS Newsmastering                                                                                                                1 April 2005
aggregating RSS-based content, filtering & deduplicating to create automatic or semi-automatic topic-specific newsfeeds; RSS NewsMaster Wiki open, public editable space, requires no registration or login, welcomes vendors, developers, researchers & scholars to post resources, tools, services & products that facilitate, expand, popularize notions of newsmastering, curated news-making, intelligent aggregation & filtering, emerging way of aggregating & re-publishing content, news & information; see Feedshake, FeedSweep, FeedJumbler

RSS NewsMaster Toolkit US $99.95 - non-technical, for a wide-audience of users                  16 March 2005

RSS News Readers                                                                                                                  12 January 2003
(Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary) XML-based format for headline syndication; headlines & links to actual content made available to other web sites; after publishing site creates RSS file of content, other sites use headline feed, & content can be read with standard browser or by specialized RSS viewers such as Headline Viewer, AmphetaDesk, FeedDemon & Radio Userland, Newzcrawler, FeedDemon, Feed Digest to filter/splice/remove duplicates/re-syndicate, NewsGator(see also RSS Readers & Finding Feeds); Web-based RSS news aggregators(Bloglines, Myfeedster, Fastbuzz); myFeedster; Reader/News Aggregators Directory; See How to get your RSS feed in Yahoo! see XML.com, Syndic8.com, Technorati, Feedster & Webreference.com..Eurekster now offering RSS/blog searching powered by Feedster; See Omea Reader; What's an RSS Aggregator?; Aggregators & RSS feeds & aggregators(above); Google Reader search for & display RSS feeds; works with most browsers on multiple platforms; Wizz RSS News Reader installs as Firefox extension, supports all versions of RSS, Atom 0.3 & Podcast(Enclosure) feeds, fully tested with Firefox 1.0 & 1.0.1 running on Windows, Mac OS X & Linux(Mandrake 10.1 running KDE). Upgraded version 2.0.7; Fizzle integrated RSS/Atom news reader for Firefox Platform: XUL/ Firefox Ext; (3 April 2006) State of Online Feed Readers for syndicated content monitors sites & sources, providing near realtime updates; there are web-based, desktop, & Outlook based feed readers; only web-based readers reviewed -News Alloy, Gritwire, Attensa & FeedLounge; Google Reader & FeedLounge are fastest. Bloglines & Rojo best feature rich applications; AgileRss displays RSS, ATOM, & XML news feed from sources that support RSS protocol; runs on java enabled operating system. Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium II system with 128 Mb of RAM & 100 Mb free disk space. Sun Microsystems Java VM version 5.0 or later; Inclue free RSS reader for Outlook; Best RSS Reader survey(May 2006); Build an Asynchronous JavaScript & XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader; RSS Reader Survey(May 2006); RSS readers for Ajax; Rich RSS readers: best of breed picks; Feedzilla - one-stop-shop for bloggers & webmasters tracks, collects, categorizes, delivers online content; Top RSS readers (chart); Attensa for Outlook 1.5; Grazr Javascript-based RSS feed reader embeds in your site; Oct '06 comparison; CleverClogs smart RSS reading; NewsGator  free online RSS reader database of 1.5m feeds Windows 2000+. Newsgator shuts down its online feed reader August 31, 2009 instructs users to migrate to Google Reader; (26 July 2007)Desktop RSS readers are(nearly) dead; Bloglines beta re-design(28 Aug 07); BlogBridge 6 reviewed: RSS Reader, news aggregator & Blog publishing tool adds strong meme-tracking features; free desktop reader capable of running on Mac OSX, Windows & GNU/Linux; Google Reader continues innovation & experimentation; top 5 online RSS readers; RiverGate RSS reader 1.8 for weblogs & podcasts, customised searches; Win98+ to Vista; Persai RSS Reader & Filter; NetNewsWire 3.1(Mac OS X 10.4+) fetch & display news; weblog editor posts to blog sites; podcast manager sends new podcasts to selected music jukebox; 7 tips for making most of your RSS reader; Excellent productivity tips for Google Reader; Feedly RSS reader plugin integrates with Google Search & with Tweeter & FriendFeed; Apprise free Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR) platform based RSS feed reader with sharing capabilities; drag & drop articles to share in AIM contact list, post directly on Twitter, or email them to anyone you want; AideRSS works with Google Reader to rank & filter feeds; Google Reader to get much faster using PubSubHubbub protocol for shared items; Jan 2010: Google Reader tracks updates on feedless web sites; Google Reader - Primer: getting started with RSS; Google finally upgrades Feedburner; Bloglines site will be maintained until at least December 1, after which it will transition to MerchantCircle; 16 July 2011: Readict(Pro) by Diigo~ iPad RSS Reader with annotation capability; SubPug: Atom or RSS reader with free third-party services from Google Feeds API, Yahoo! Content Analysis Service, Yahoo! YQL, Twitter API, Facebook Graph API, Disqus API See review;   

RSS online editors                                                                                                               25 September 2004
produce an RSS channel simply by filling in HTML form with no code writing required! e.g. UKOLN's RSSxpress channel editor creates RSS 1.0 feeds & the RSS Channel Editor from webreference creates RSS version 0.91 feeds; RSS Software - RSS editors, readers, creators;
NetNewsWire 3.1(Mac OS X 10.4+) fetch & display news; weblog editor posts to blog sites; podcast manager sends new podcasts to a selected music jukebox;

RSS production from HTML('Scraping')                                                                           25 September 2004
Scrapers automatically identify items for RSS analysing markup on web page; enhanced by special HTML tags designed to assist scraping programs; MyRSS channel service produces RSS feed by scraping; legal ramifications; Metacentric subscription RSS scraper & feed generator; How to create RSS feed from any web page; Ponyfish, Feeds2Be, RSSpect, free RSS feeds generators; Feed43; Using Google to generate RSS feeds for non-RSS sites; Dapper: the data mapper processes unstructured information from HTML, cleans, transforms & re-emits as structured XML(RSS, email, iCal, a Google Gadget, CSV & Google Maps) to create feeds, widgets, & APIs; How-to of screen scraping for RSS; See also Start data plumbing with Yahoo Pipes tutorial for building a specialized feed from a variety of sources; Web page To RSS converters(Sharewood Guide); Glory, bliss & how-to of screen scraping for RSS; Dapper will pull data from almost any web page, including RSS, email, iCal, Google Gadget, CSV & Google Maps; RSS splicing & deduplication service Feed.informer.com;  

RSS Search Engines                                                                                                               31 August 2005

RSS Specifications everything you need to know; RSS or Atom?                                            4 April 2005

RSS to HTML: How to convert RSS feeds into published webpages - A mini-guide                5 April 2007
includes alternatives to JavaScript-based RSS to HTML solutions such as services that make use of PHP; JavaScript in the HTML code of your website contains  lines of code that call information from the original news source & search engines find nothing; RSS to HTMLweb publishing tools (Robin Good) ;

RSS to  PDF newspaper: FeedJournal & Tabbloid reviewed                                                   5 December 2008

RSS tools & services - best picks from Sharewood                                                                  18 January 2007
See also Tools to combine multiple RSS feeds into a single feed; Ultimate RSS toolbox: comprehensive list of RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks & directories; 

RSS Video Feeds Open video distribution via RSS - separate hosting from viewing                   30 November 2007

RSS - WebReference.com                                                                                                        12 April 2002
what RSS is & whether you should convert your zine or blog or updates to RSS feed

Scientific publishing authoring tools                                                                                    28 November 2011
Annotum will build on WordPress platform providing following additional features: Rich, web-based authoring & editing; coauthoring: WYSIWYG authoring with rich toolset(equations, figures, tables, citations & references), comments, version tracking, & revision comparisons; Strict conformance to a subset of NLM journal article publishing tag set; Multiple import & export formats: Export to PDF & XML formats, Import XML & WXR formats for “round-tripping” of content, Articles can be cited, exported, imported across systems/sites; Simple editorial workflow for authoring & reviewer/editor approval; Features specific to scholarly publishing: Equations, figures, tables, References including citation search features, Auto-generation & registration of CrossRef DOIs;

Scout Portal Toolkit(SPT)                                                                                                          8 February 2003
groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share via the World Wide Web put that collection online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise.

Scraping See RSS production from HTML(above)

Scribd social reading & publishing company/online platform to publish & discover web documents  25 February 2011
Read, print, download, & send to mobile devices; patent-pending conversion technology uploads & transforms file - including PDF, Word & PowerPoint - into web document discoverable through search engines, shared on social networks & read on mobile devices;

Scribus free open source desktop publishing software licensed under General Public License       13 January 2012
Scribus 1.4, first big update after 4 years development,  brings 2000+ bug fixes & feature requests & is based on application framework QT4 to run more reliable on all platforms & on Apple Mac OS X 10.5+; support for additional vector import filters (including Adobe Illustrator EPS & PDF, Macintosh Picture & Windows Metafile), PDF 1.5 export support, new vector object features like line style editor, advanced text & typography options like character styles, or enhancements to Scribus’ pre-press features including printing marks & ink coverage display; Scribus Wiki; Scribus User Mailing List;

Scrutinizer                                                                                                                                   10 August 2006
run tests on page content; HTML & CSS validation, link popularity & rank checks, pings & traceroutes, plagiarism checks, site speed tests; inspired by The Socializer & the (currently dead) Firefox extension, Checky.

Search Tools for Web Sites & Intranets                                                                                       11 January 2007

Site Search Tools: How to Choose, Implement & Maintain your Web Site Search Tools               11 January 2006

slackers guide to HTML                                                                                                               10 May 2002

Social Media Platforms Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, Digg, del.icio.us; Sup.r.cilio.us social tagger  5 December 2006 
Movable Type 4.0 Becomes Social Media Platform with open source component; Blog platforms head to head: six apart & automattic compared; Apture tool for bloggers & online publishers adds interactive multimedia links & embeds(review & overview); Art of building a successful social site; Storify online blogging tool (review; FAQ) lets you embed individual units of social media, such as Facebook updates, tweets & YouTube videos, into a single Storify blog post; 

SourceEdit feature rich text editor for programmers                                                                        24 March 2009
freeware, Windows only; support for previews of HTML code in your default system browser; supports dozens of programming languages, accompanying formatting & syntax;

SourceForge.net  Open Source software development web site                                                      15 September 2005
centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, code; repository of Open Source code & applications; free hosting to Open Source software development projects; low cost, high value, quality & reliability, security, increased freedom & flexibility; 

Storify online blogging tool (review; FAQ)                                                                                         24 September 2011
lets you embed individual units of social media, such as Facebook updates, tweets & YouTube videos, into a single Storify blog post

Stylesheets Guide                                                                                                                            26 December 2002

SuprGlu pastes all your content together                                                                                          6 December 2005
pastes syndicated content into a bloglike, regularly-refreshed page; register with email address & password; choose from a list of services  including 43 Things, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Digg; three styles available; restrictions on what you can include;

Sweeble: making print production accessible                                                                                 21 August 2009
template based publishing system designed for people in UK who volunteer at least once a month  & businesses that can only afford to employ their owner;

TimeMap TMJava                                                                                                                      8 January 2005
applet generates interactive maps with a few simple lines of html enriching web pages with historical or contemporary information beyond static jpg map images; customisable; distributed backend database connectivity for expert; free personal use; interactive maps for web sites, intranet enquiry systems, museum & visitor kiosks, & for CD-ROM products; TMJava can connect with databases being actively updated or with live data feeds; See Dipity to create interactive timeline with photos, video clips, text;

TracBac share, comment, interact, revise, collaborate, exchange creative works                           15 July 2006
integrated features like audio comments, post-it notes, visual tools for marking &  reviewing, IM integration, instant email alerts; no downloads or installation; supports Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Camino & Safari; Free; 

Transparent PNG Generator                                                                                                      26 November 2006
CSS techniques for incorporating transparent elements into your design; PNG(Portable Network Graphics compressed image file format) format images support full alpha transparency (each pixel can display a range of tones from 0 to 255);

TypePad  web publishing platform                                                                                             16 January 2009
customize look & feel of blog; TypePad Connect community management tool supports sign in using Vox, Google, Yahoo!, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress.com, or AOL accounts in addition to your TypePad username & password;

UltraEdit-32                                                                                                                            22 August 2003
Text Editor/HEX Editor/HTML Editor/Programmers Editor nominated Best Application; Shareware Industry Awards 2003

Understanding Metadata NISO(National Information Standards Organization)                            15 July 2004
 publication includes an overview of leading metadata contenders & examples of practical applications.

UNESCO's Free & Open Source Software Portal                                                                   30 July 2005

Usability - ignore it at your peril! (FreePint Newsletter 163, 15 Jul 2004); Website Usability(Freepint 24/2/2005);              
Usability guidelines; See alsoWebsite Usability(Freepint 24/2/2005); useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website & Working with a Usability Specialist, Freepint No. 212, 24 August 2006; Web site usability testing & expert usability review: which is best solution? ;

Using open source software to design, develop, & deploy a collaborative Web site                  29 December 2007
IBM developerWorks Tools & techniques for getting relatively complicated Web sites up & running quickly

Using XHTML(with Delphi Forums)                                                                                       6 February 2005

UX(User Experience)                                                                                                                8 January 2010
Quince EX Patterns Explorer(requires Microsoft Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform & cross-device browser plugin enabling companies to design, develop & deliver applications & experiences on Web;

Video aggregators                                                                                                                   15 September 2006
ClipBlast aggregates content from CBS, Today Show, CNBC, Expanded Books, YouTube(selective); Real-time Index of new content lists thumbnails with description, source, category; view clip on originating site, share it, save it to My ClipBlast, share via email message with link; editor's picks, popular clips, clips by category, by provider; keyword search; register to save clips to My ClipBlast tab; blog;

Video editing: best web-based video editing tools - A mini-guide                                                 2 March 2007

Video conversion & encoding tools & Services: A mini-guide                                                      12 April 2007

Visual web-editors                                                                                                                 5 October 2007
Visual Web-Developer(Microsoft)-free, complicated full web-development environment(for C# coders); Dreamweaver(Adobe), Frontpage, KompoZer(freeware)

W3C MarkUp Validation Service                                                                                            8 July 2003
free check HTML & XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations & other standards; see also HTML validation, W3C CSS Validation Service & Website tidying.

W3C Semantic Web                                                                                                              2 May 2003
abstract representation of World Wide Web data based on RDF standards & others to be defined; W3C in collaboration with researchers & industrial partners;

W3Schools free for developers, coders, designers                                                                  4 January 2007
HTML, XML, browser scripting, server scripting, .NET, multimedia & web building; SMIL, Semantic, PHP, SOAP; Web Primer (XML used to describe & transport data, HTML to display data); exercises, jumping-off points to learn related technologies, multiple-choice quizzes, examples of languages & scripts, tip sheets, References, HTML colour names, PHP 5.1, ASCII characters, forums, certification in HTML, XML & ASP - small fee for certification; $59 for HTML & ASP. XML certification through Altova;

Watermarking                                                                                                                         5 January 2012
How to add watermarks to images(& remove them with discussion about ETHICS of removing watermarks);

Web 2.0 how-to design guide  & Web 2.0 blog                                                                      1 January 2007

Web Accessibility: Ensuring Access for All (FreePint, 14th October 2004)       

Webalizer fast, free web server log file analysis program                                                         18 May 2005
 detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML for viewing with a standard browser

Web App Creation                                                                                                                5 October 2007

Web Assistant Private 2004                                                                                                  21 December 2003
freeware proxy offline browser archives websites offline; hierarchical archive structure represents a mirror of every website, topic-specific archiving of webpages, & filtration of unwanted material from each site; Windows 95+

Web blogs, blogs & blogging                                                                                                  31 December 2005

Web design(BackStump)                                                                                                       9 January 2005

Web design, CSS, & HTML tools & tips                                                                              16 May 2007

Web design from scratch                                                                                                       6 June 2004
how-to web design guide: a) Basics b) Tutorials - information architecture, navigation, information design c) Case Studies - existing layout & alternative solutions

WebDesignHelper                                                                                                                   6 September 2003
free templates, graphics, fonts; 129 free full-page templates, 21 horizontal menus, 26 vertical menus, 23 table templates,144 fonts, 120 icons(tables, graphs, charts), 67 types of arrow, 128 buttons; online forum; submit contributions for inclusion on the site

Web Design/HTML                                                                                                                 1 July 2006
articles, tips, tutorials, links to clip art & JavaScript collections, hosting services, legal issues

Web Developers' Handbook                                                                                                  22 September 2005
CSS, SEO; categories like CSS Daily Reading, CSS Galleries & Showcases, AJAX applications, color schemes & palettes, royalty-free photos, etc.

Web Developer's Virtual Library                                                                                              18 August 2003
web authoring & software Internet  resources; 500+ pages, thousands of links about HTML, CGI, Java, VRML, browsers, plugins, graphics, HTTP servers, JavaScript, Perl, ActiveX, Shockwave; See also BlackStump - Web Developer links

WebLog Expert Lite 4.2                                                                                                          25 August 2007
find out about visitors to sites, including how they got there & which operating systems they were using; HTML reports, complete with tables & charts; Win 95+

Webmaster World discussion forum for professional Web marketers                                        12 January 2003
competent search engine optimization experts, professional as well as non professional; latest rumors, fresh search engine news & detailed analysis of the latest trends by well know experts like the Webmaster World chief himself, Brett Tabke.

Web mastery web development sites from Beyond; the BlackStump                                        13 November 2002

Web Mon 1.0.7                                                                                                                        23 March 2003
keep track of new & updated information on frequently visited Web pages; check an unlimited number of Web pages at set intervals; pop-up alerts & sounds; built-in help system; freeware compatible with systems running Windows 95+

Web monitoring services                                                                                                        11 November 2004
Track Engine 5 pages/100kb free tracking; US$53 for 50 bookmarks(daily, weekly); WatchThatPage free; unlimited pages emailed daily, weekly, several days/week; Wisdom Change unlimited pages free; ChangeDetection no login, no registration, few features; ChangeDetect free 5 pages; track changes to password protected content in 100p to 500p subscriptions; InfoMinder 90 day trial/10 pages, 4 plans 100p(US$24.95/yr) - 250p(US$49.90/yr) - 500p(US$99.00/yr) - 1000p (US$179.00/yr); Trackle 14 day free trial; US$1.95/m or US$19.95/yr maximum 25p; TracerLock 30 day free trial(credit card registration) Web monitoring service for words, phrases or advanced search strings(& check in 20 URLs); Copernic Tracker download & instal 30 day free trial. US$49.95 word match criteria, different alert options for each page, changes highlighted; Website-Watcher download; 30 day free trial; US $29.95 Personal; US$99.00 Business ed; Mindit - defunct ; PubSub

Webmonkey the web developers resource                                                                                8 August 2003
tutorials, Beginners - HTML, graphics, ISPs; Builders - JavaScript, stylesheets, Flash; Masters - Databases, servers, media; Webmonkey reference pages wiki resources include HTML & special character cheatsheets, stylesheets guides & key terms/acronyms glossary;

Web Page Analyzer - 0.81                                                                                                     15 September 2003
Enter a URL to calculate page size, composition, download time; linked stylesheets, images, HTTP compression, server connections, Netscape 4 sniffing for XSSI, allowed variables for conditional configuration file messages; all tested.

Web page editors                                                                                                                     6 January 2006
NVU(Win/Mac/Linux) edit & create web pages; See also Amaya 9.3 for Linux, Windows & MacOS X, supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features,SVG support(transformation, transparency, SMIL animation) display & partially edit XML document; See Writeboard(below) & Wideword; Codeless Website: 4 tools for creating no-tech sites; Magnt free for  creation of personal website using templates & customized graphics, collocate social networks on their site, compatible with all operating systems; Wordpress Annotum

Web publishing platforms See also WordPress blog tool & weblog platform                           10 June 2007
SynthaSite(alpha) online web publishing platform, browser based AJAX mashup, social collaboration; Live mesh: first look at Microsoft's new platform; Hubpages easy-to-use publishing tools, author community & revenue-maximizing infrastructure from industry-standard advertising vehicles such as Google AdSense, Kontera, eBay & Amazon Affiliates program free to Hubbers in an open online community; Squidoo build free web pages; 700000 hand built pages generate annual royalties to charities & users; Google Knol peer reviewed encyclopedia; users share & add content collaboratively; hosts knols - units of knowledge - on various subjects; Xerox Trails new kind of Web-based publishing technology comprising destination site at trailmeme.com & plugins for major content management systems such as WordPress & MediaWiki; Gov 2.0 guide to Drupal open source platform & content management system(CMS) for building dynamic web sites; 15 October 2011: Kibin peer-editing, proofreading & review service; Set up your blog with WordPress: your ultimate guide; 15 Jan 2012: Create local websites with Ampps(Apache MySQL PHP Python Softalicious) free web development environment for Windows & Mac OS X: install 260 web applications including WordPress, Joomla or Drupal, & applications such as course management system Moodle, several types of Wikipedia-like applications or feed aggregators such as Gregarius. What sets Ampps apart from other solutions like WordPress Portable, XAMPP or Wampserver are applications the program ships with. The inclusion of phpMyAdmin & SQlite Manager help in importing existing data into local development environment;  

web ranking tool(Microsoft Watch)                                                                                           2 August 2004
fetches 3 numbers for a URL: Google's PageRank; scale of 0-10; low-resolution version; Alexa's traffic rank for web based on sampling of traffic; count of total external(from outside page domain) backlinks from Yahoo; better reporting for backlinks than Google

Website Usability(Freepint 24/2/2005) See also Usability (above)                                         27 February 2005

Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition                                                                                                   27 September 2003
step-by-step designing a Web site; few technical details, focuses on usability, layout, attractiveness;  graphics, typography, multimedia enhancements discussed; Web site structure & fine-tuning features pages

Web Text Content Summarizer & Keyword Analysis Tool                                                10 February 2003
Digest Source v1.1.3(US$29) competitor to Copernic Summarizer; Web pages or text files, summary report from keywords; add stop words; German & English; works ONLY with IE; a) Digest-size adjustable(0 to 100%)  b) summarise according to sentences or % of document  c) Digest-Button in IE allows quick access d) Automatic language recognition  e) analyses multi-language documents  f) Stop-Word-Editor; free 21-day trial (5.33Mb )

What Are Syndication Feeds                                                                                                  24 January 2006
covers Atom & flavors of RSS--2.0 & 1.0 -what it is, what makes up a feed, how to find & subscribe to them, which feed will work best;

What Is Web 2.0?                                                                                                                 31 August 2005
vision in which information is broken into microcontent units distributed over domains; Web of documents has morphed into Web of data; no longer same old sources for information; new tools to aggregate & remix microcontent in new & useful ways;

WhoLinksToMe.com                                                                                                            10 June 2006
metasearcher produces a summary of web sites & blogs that link to you from BlogRolling, IceRocket, Technorati, Alexa, Yahoo, & MSN Search; 

Widgetbox directory of free web widgets for WordPress, TypePad, MySpace et al               29 October 2006

Wiki Farms                                                                                                                         13 March 2006
make private, password-protected wikis at JotSpot, OddWiki, PeanutButterWiki, SeedWiki, Socialtext, WikiCities, Wikispaces; See List of wiki farms; PBWiki, WikiSpace, Seedwiki;

Wikis Described in Plain English help build & edit a website with no programming or HTML   11 May 2004
punctuation by SocialText; Wiki bibliography; What is a Wiki?; Tiddlyspot w. creator; World of wikis; collaborate, build free community use wikis at pbwiki & seedwiki; Wikis explained in simple words; Wiki: a tool for teaching, learning, sharing & collaboration; WikiMatrix comparison sheets for wiki software; select wikis, evaluate contents & features, compare software; LibSuccess Wiki & Virtual Reference SIG Wiki list articles regarding wiki's setup & applications in libraries; AtWiki free wiki hosting service; Wiki editing with Atlassian Confluence; Best Wiki tools & services: Sharewood Guide; WikiMatrix compares them all; Wikis at Sun Microsystems: the ongoing evolution;

WordPress Blog Tool & Weblog Platform                                                                             22 April 2007
free state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with focus on aesthetics, web standards, usability; Absolute beginner's guide to installing WP; WP v Moveable Type; WP social networks; WordPress.com tests reply via email(for V.2.7 launch 10 Nov 08); Turbo-charge WP with Google Gears; WP(“Coltrane”) dashboard allows drag & drop feature changes; QuickPress, comment threading, paging, reply to comments,  install any plugin directly from WordPress.org, & sticky posts; Insights WP plugin allows you to easily embed links from your blog, Google Search or Wikipedia, videos from YouTube, images from Flickr, maps from Google Maps; Beginner’s guide to tricking out your WP blog; (21 Nov 09) V 2.8.6 support via online forums easier to add extensions & plugins, simpler to transform WordPress into an online store or gallery; Windows 95+; WP speed & optimization guide; 18 Dec 2010: WP 3.0.3 new plugins designed to synchronize posts with Twitter & BuddyPress help users build social networks; compatible with all operatingsystems including Linux; Best of: WP plugins; Set up your blog with WP: your ultimate guide; 28 Nov 2011: Wordpress Annotum; 17 Jan 2012: How to analyze WP plugin performances;

Word processors online                                                                                                        21 December 2006
Solodox create, edit, share documents & projects free, members read or edit, upload documents & download as HTML/RTF/ Word/Text file to your computer; Zoho Writer;

Writeboard free web-based editor                                                                                          6 July 2006
write online documents, collaborate; subscribe to documents via RSS to be notified of changes & keep writings organized with Backpack integration; requires Internet Explorer 6.x, Safari, or Firefox; See also Wideword

Writing & editing for library website See also Books about usability by Dr. Jakob Nielsen (p.16)  9 August 2006

XML copy editor (Linux & Windows versions)                                                                      3 December 2006
validate EAD files & associate style sheets to see how it will appear in a browser; choose which browser to use for this(a failing in XMLSpy which defaults to IE);  use Firefox or any other browser; free GNU public licence;

Yahoo! Pipes                                                                                                                        15 February 2007
interactive feed aggregator & manipulator using Yahoo’s JavaScript authoring tool; RSS feed remixer for web mashups & web-based applications that combine data from different sources into new interactive creations; drag & drop feeds, combined through series of filters into pipes(Unix operating system terminology for ability to connect sources of data to filters & utilities; constructing ad-hoc workflows composed of inputs, filters, manipulation tools); more control than web widgets but need to look at URL line & parse out parameters(e.g. use Pipes' URL builder module to construct input to site's query function), understand variables & loops; reviews; Introduction; Ultimate YP Creations list; limited to data structured in certain formats whilst Openkapow desktop application allows manipulation of data from websites without RSS feeds & APIs; YP: relevant information on tap FUMSI article by Scott Brown;

Yahoo! Search Builder                                                                                                         24 August 2006
embed a free customizable Yahoo!-based search engine on your web site; focus search results on a specific topic, choose background & border colors, logo; search the web, your site, & news search; style the search box; customize to match users' needs; 

Yahoo Style Guide writing, editing & creating for digital world                                         29 June 2010
everything from common usage(“email” instead of “e-mail”) to more obscure digital-specific topics, like user-interface text; effective writing & editing for online audience, techniques for streamlining copy, basic Web codes, Internet law, search engine optimization, before-&- after examples of how to clean up problem copy; companion website features content excerpted from book, more help & resources from Yahoo! editors;

Zippy - the webmaster's meta search engine                                                                         1 December 2006
information about each domain - age of the site, IP address, data on the site from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Alexa & Technorati; backlinks, deeplinks, indexed pages; top 100 ranking keywords, server information, text information, phrases on the page, textual content;

Ziwiki                                                                                                                                    10 August 2006
Wiki platform: free, easy website building & editing; text editing & functionalities build calendars, Google Maps

Zoho Office Suite                                                                                                                  31 December 2006
collaboration groupware including clients for email , documents, calendar, spreadsheets, presentations, chat, database, wiki, API, surveys; (17 May 2008) No longer requires accounts. Sign in with Yahoo Or Google ID to use Zoho notebook, conferencing, chat; 2 June 2010: Zoho Search user content in Zoho Mail, Zoho Docs, Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Discussions & Zoho Accounts;