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 online:
Zoho
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;
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
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) ;
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+
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;