Scrapers See Web Data Extractors

Snip URL                                                                                                                                25 January 200
Long URLs can break into two lines in email, forcing recipients to cut & paste; convert long links into smaller links free; give them a nickname (optional). Shorten several URLs at once <http://snipurl.com/multi>, Store snippings for public or private use-- Edit when URLs change-- Use a bookmarklet to create short links without visiting Snip URL -- Download snippings into an Excel spreadsheet; Try DigBig.com a new free service to shorten long URLs

SocialCalc online distributed spreadsheet that a group can edit                                                    23 June 2009
incorporates design principles of wiki in to a spreadsheet for distributed teams; dynamic editing, wiki-style linking, version history; integrates Socialtext workspace wiki pages in to spreadsheets & individual cells (& vice-versa) for portability of data between knowledge mediums within the platform.

Social media curation tools                                                                                                        27 November 2010
Curated.by(test) collaborative curation tool helps users organize anything with a link, capture a conversation, embed testimonial tweets on your blog, or  bookmark favorite tweets; tag content by bookmarklet or Chrome extension; Storify: collect photos, video, tweets to publish embedded anywhere; Keepstream: Remix tweets, statuses, & other social goodies into a permanent web page; currently supported on Blogger, Squarespace, TypePad,& WordPress self-hosted blogs; integration with Posterous, Tumblr, WordPress.com to come;

Social Medai Guide advice & tips on connecting to others through social media & social networks;   8 July 2010
Introduction to Social Media; 9 Sept 2010: Next 5 Years in social media;

Social Networking ( & again)                                                                                                  5 August 2004
See also Social Informatics(Social networking white paper); Folksonomies; Personalized Collaborative Shareable Search; StumbleUpon(Firefox); Yahoo’s Guide to Social Media Tools; 43 things registered users post 43 goals, comment on others, Browse by user, goal, geographic area; Never search alone(Rick Broda, PC Magazine Oct 21, 2005); Yahoo! My Web 2.0; Social search tools; Part 2: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search; Social Networks: Internet Archive Bookmarks; Facebook; Netvouz; folkd.com(Firefox); Podchains combines social bookmarking & video/audio podcasts to bookmark & tag podcasts; Bookmarking & social sharing trends; Decipho; add Jaxtr links to your email signature & networkers call without downloading software, incurring phone charges or registering; control who, when, where & how you are reached; unlimited voice messages & 100 minutes/m of incoming phone calls; Content Wrangler- free access to articles on content management, monthly newsletter, discussions; Social Software: Common Issues  & Pitfalls Of Social Media Tools; Part 2; Analyzing The Facebook Platform & Apps; Social Tools for Business Use: Messages from a Web 2.0 Conference; Social Media Manual: Read Before You Play; 3 methods of visualizing best practices in social software design;  OnlineSocialNetworks Majordomo List; Twine (See below); 40 Downloadable Open Source Social Software Applications; Designing for the social: avoiding anti-social networks; Flickr image sharing social network; Bebo(AOL social network) lifestreaming feature allows users to pull updates from Twitter, Flickr, & Delicious, Facebook & Myspace; 'Lifestory' displays updates in a scrollable & zoomable timeline; Art of building a successful social site; Secondbrain bookmarking/social-media sharing/lifestreaming/social network; Who uses social networks & what are they like? Part 1 & Part 2; Online social networking: Internet miniguide, annotated link compilation(Zillman, Awareness Watch, Sept 09); Social.com directory of social networks items can be added to by Google Sets; Social media strategy: how I became expert in 3 days; Social Learning Handbook; Reuters Social Media Guidelines(for journalists); Social media in health care libraries – wikis & Netvibes win(Karen Blakeman workshop); Tales from the Terminal Room, June 2010(PowerPoint Presentation); How to delete your social networking accounts; Ups & downs of social networks: June 2010 graphical snapshot of current social networking landscape, illustrating statistically which networks are on the rise, which are falling, & providing usage figures for top 5 social networks in several countries including Australia, UK, US, Brazil, Germany, Italy & Spain; List of social networking websites(Wikipedia); Diaspora open-source project(alpha) using Ruby on Rails to build a social network focussed on user privacy: create aspects, personal lists that group people according to roles they play in your life; World Map of Social Networks, Dec 2010 showing most popular social networks by country; Content Wrangler- free access to articles on content management, monthly newsletter, discussions; Social Software: Common Issues  & Pitfalls Of Social Media Tools; Part 2; Analyzing The Facebook Platform & Apps; Social Tools for Business Use: Messages from a Web 2.0 Conference; Social Media Manual: Read Before You Play; 3 methods of visualizing best practices in social software design;  OnlineSocialNetworks Majordomo List; Twine (See below); 40 Downloadable Open Source Social Software Applications; Designing for the social: avoiding anti-social networks; Flickr image sharing social network; Bebo(AOL social network) lifestreaming feature allows users to pull updates from Twitter, Flickr, & Delicious, Facebook & Myspace; 'Lifestory' displays updates in a scrollable & zoomable timeline; Art of building a successful social site; Secondbrain bookmarking/social-media sharing/lifestreaming/social network; Who uses social networks & what are they like? Part 1 & Part 2; Online social networking: Internet miniguide, annotated link compilation(Zillman, Awareness Watch, Sept 09); Social.com directory of social networks items can be added to by Google Sets; Social media strategy: how I became expert in 3 days; Social Learning Handbook; Reuters Social Media Guidelines(for journalists); Social media in health care libraries – wikis & Netvibes win(Karen Blakeman workshop); Tales from the Terminal Room, June 2010(PowerPoint Presentation); How to delete your social networking accounts; Ups & downs of social networks: June 2010 graphical snapshot of current social networking landscape, illustrating statistically which networks are on the rise, which are falling, & providing usage figures for top 5 social networks in several countries including Australia, UK, US, Brazil, Germany, Italy & Spain; List of social networking websites(Wikipedia); Diaspora open-source project(alpha) using Ruby on Rails to build a social network focussed on user privacy: create aspects, personal lists that group people according to roles they play in your life; World Map of Social Networks, Dec 2010 showing most popular social networks by country; 25 Feb 2011: Scribd social reading & publishing company/online platform to publish & discover Web documents; 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; 25 May 2011: Managing the flow of information with social tools; 30 June 2011: Google+ for social networking; 2 July 2011: Social networking sites & our lives(Pew Internet & American Life Project); 7 Aug 2011: Online Social Networking(V9N8 Awareness Watch Newsletter); 7 Aug 2011: Social networking services meta-list; See also List of Social Networking Websites(Wikipedia); 26 August 2011: Yuku social networks, forums, chats; 11 Nov 2011: Reddit enhancement suite; 4 features people first hate about R… & eventually love;                                                                                   

Social news aggregators                                                                                                      2 March 2007
Adobe MyFeedz feed reader, social news, personalized browsing - RSS Feed Reader Graduates To Social News Aggregator: Adobe MyFeedz; 11 Nov 2011: Reddit enhancement suite;   

Social operating systems (See The Horizon Report 2008 & review)                                    31 January 2008

Software as a Service(SaaS)  See also Web Office suites                                                       19 July 2009
Newsdesk 4 SaaS News & Social Media discovery & sharing service for your most relevant web content; Faceted search & real-time media analysis; CODiE Award (Software & Information Industry Association) for Best content aggregation solution & overall Best information solution; free 14 day trial; business intelligence from 2.2m+ global news, social media & industry sources;

Software for taxonomy creation & management                                                                         20 November 2010
Dedicated large-scale thesaurus management systems, that are not limited to a vertical market, include the following: Data Harmony Thesaurus Master; Synaptica; SchemaLogic; Smartlogic Ontology Manager; Wordmap; STAR/Thesaurus; SoutronTHESAURUS; ITM T3; Thesaurus Manager(TheMa); Free & open source software: W32; Prot'g' is an OS ontology editor, not a thesaurus management program; Single-user desktop thesaurus software: MultiTes, Cognatrix dedicated Macintosh application;

SourceForge                                                                                                                           31 December 2008
online open source code repository; See also Software index; Open source development tutorial site; Programming code search engines;

Speed up your Internet with Auslogics Internet Optimizer or TCP Optimizer                           31 December 2011
See also Internet Connection Speed Analysis, Internet Connection Reliability Test & Speedtest review for programs that can aid you with the task;

SpotSigs: Robust & Efficient Near Duplicate Detection in Large Web Collections                   2 May 2008
manually analyze large Web archives of news sites; algorithm for extracting & matching signatures for near duplicate detection in large Web crawls; designed to favor natural language portions of Web pages over advertisements & navigational bars; combining stopword antecedents with short chains of adjacent content terms to create robust document signatures & filter out noisy components of Web pages that distract pure n-gram-based approaches such as Shingling; exact & efficient self-tuning matching algorithm exploits a combination of collection partitioning & inverted index pruning for high-dimensional similarity search; increase in combined precision & recall of 24%+ over state-of-the-art approaches such as Shingling or I-Match  & up to 3x faster execution times than Locality Sensitive Hashing(LSH), over a demonstrative Gold Set of manually assessed near-duplicate news articles as well as the TREC WT10g Web collection;

Spreadsheet collaboration online
See Numbler; NumSum - create spreadsheets free, select & copy a range of data from Excel or Open Office Calc, paste to your online spreadsheet; publish a spreadsheet on your blog or other website by pasting HTML code or as an RSS feed; iROWS; EditGrid; See also SocialCalc(above); Fusion Tables(Google)

Spreadsheets                                                                                                                              13 February 2009
Convert columns to rows (& vice versa) in Excel - Paste Special Transpose command; Simple expense tracking with new Excel 2007 functions - SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS & COUNTIFS;  SocialCalc(SocialText) social spreadsheet designed for distributed teams allows users to collaborate across a number of spreadsheets in conjunction with wiki-based Socialtext Workspace, & Socialtext Signals, their microblogging platform; Embed an Excel spreadsheet online; FLink(Frequency-weighted Links) tool for downloading PubMed results into a CSV file(suitable for opening in Excel or OpenOffice);

SpyBot Search & Destroy                                                                                                         9 February 2004
identify & remove spyware on your PC, immunise & alert when spyware infiltrates; free; donations welcomed (see also Spyware Guide Database )

Spyware Guide                                                                                                                         3 December 2004
spyware applications, what they do, how they’re used; which software applications can detect & defeat spyware; database of known spy software & adware applications & contact information as well as other privacy related products; SUPER AntiSpyWare Free Edition 3.9.1008 for complete hard drive scans, removal of spyware & adware threats, process interrogation technology for Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003,  & Vista;   

Sqworl: a lightbox for shared links                                                                                             29 January 2009
organize a series of links under one short URL, & provides a series of site thumbnails - a lightbox of sorts;

Stack Overflow free programming Q & A site                                                                                 16 February 2011
Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma & win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it’s just free & fast; collaboratively built & maintained by your fellow programmers;

Start pages(easy-to-use, customizable, with latest news & add interactive content)                   14 September 2007
10 Ajax start pages to consider: Netvibes, Pageflakes, Protopage, iGoogle, My Yahoo, Inbox, ItsAStart, Eskobo, Favoor, 24eyes; Netvibes; access startpage anywhere, anytime, on any device; favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts; Today, netvibes is a global community; Qrowd (import bookmarks, feeds, widgets, create web clippings, customise native widgets using a 'visual wiring editor') a next gen start page;

StatCounter launches Global Stats tool: tracks OS, browser, & search engine market share            20 March 2009

Stickam(beta)                                                                                                                         29 April 2006
Flash-powered free collaboration widget embedded in page to publish audio & video clips, images,  real-time interactions via text chat & video conferencing; video conferencing 5 concurrent partners - unlimited text chat guests - live video broadcasting;

Sticky notes for web pages. See Diigo & JotSpot; hottnotes; Stikkit; Trailfire Toolbar; Freebie Notes 3.16(Win95+);

StopBadware.org                                                                                                                     20 February 2006
Neighborhood Watch campaign  to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications; central clearinghouse for research on badware & suppliers; collaborative, community-minded approach to stopping badware;

Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA) & Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) Overview       17 January 2012
Wikipedia to be shut down for 24hrs to protest SOPA/PIPA; SOPA & PIPA are bad industrial policy - The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention(Tim O'Reilly);

Storage space on Web                                                                                                             8 June 2006
Allyoucanupload free hosting for images to embed in web pages - online personal spaces, online auctions(eBay), blogs(Blogger, TypePad), message boards, online classifieds, social  networking sites(Xanga, MySpace); MailBigFile, ImageShack, FreeWebspace.net, Free Online Drop & Pick-Up Exchange, FreeDrive, Dropload, ClipClip, Virtual hard drive from Lycos UK; Store It on Web - (21 July 2006) 17 free, low-cost services to back up & share files online; 4shared virtual hard drive offers 500Mb free storage to access & share; MediaMax fee-based services - Premium $4.95/m. to store 100Gb & download/share up to10Gb; Fotki - create albums, store videos, keep personal blogs; Dropload - upload any file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100Mb each. Recipients emailed instructions to down- load file. Files removed after 7 days; GigaSize - upload & share unlimited files; maximum free upload/file is 1.5Gb; $4.95 per month premium account has maximum upload/file of 2.5 Gb; resume interrupted or suspended downloads; MediaFire - upload multiple unlimited size files to share via copy & paste codes, by e-mail, AIM, or Yahoo Messenger; free registration; unlimited bandwidth;  LocalHostr - upload & store file up to 20Mb free; Badongo - free single file uploads to 1 Gb; split files large than 1Gb;  in.solit.us share or make public, files free, no disk usage limit; DivShare; eSnips 5Gb storage, tagging, music playlists - Mary Ellen Bates review; OmniDrive & Box.net allow direct access to Zoho for easy online editing of documents; Box.net to edit photos & images online with Picnik, work on Word & Excel files using Zoho, publish documents through Scribd, send documents signed with EchoSign; user can invite collaborators to any folder in their account; Openomy free online file hosting system stores files up to 1GB with a permalink; OpenDrive free public beta with 1GB of space: store, share or back up files, make changes in real-time & upload drag&drop facilities,share any file with a public link; How to save & share very large files (the video); 5 best personal web hosts; Weebly website design & hosting for a free website & blog using a drag & drop website editor to move videos, pictures, maps, or text; hosting; 70+ professional templates; special version for educators & schools; register online; compatible across all operating systems; Google Shared Spaces helps you use G Wave’s gadgets for collaboration, Create virtual work spaces; Forms of website hosting explained; Dropbox free cloud based storage service available in Spanish, French, German & Japanese for Windows, Mac, Linux, & Mobile: documents, photos & videos shared by 25m+ subscribers saving 200m+files/day on any computer, smartphone or iPad; Re-examining Dropbox & its alternatives; CloudSave saves files from Google Docs, Amazon Cloud Drive, Facebook, Picasa, & other programs & applications; Current version works with all operating systems running  Google Chrome;     

Streaming media servers                                                                                                            6 April 2009
Roll your own...with Subsonic(Windows/Mac/Linux) free, open source, supports on-the-fly conversion & streaming of audio formats including WMA, FLAC, APE, Musepack, WavPack, Shorten & OptimFROG; How to download & save streaming videos;

StumbleUpon  spywareless toolbar to rate websites with your profile & past ratings                    22 October 2004
Windows, Macintosh & Linux operating systems; for Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox; free & pay versions; rss-subscribe to ratings; Unofficial StumbleUpon FAQ; See also 9 tools to randomly browse the Web;

Summary preparation services See See Automated summaries or abstracts

SurveyMonkey free do-it-yourself web survey tool  to create & execute web-based surveys      4 March 2004
See also QuestionForm web application for creating, publishing & analysing online surveys & forms; Bristol Online Surveys: BOS develop, deploy, & analyse surveys via the Web; Polldaddy surveys via your blog, facebook, twitter, website, basic plan is free & small cost for larger surveys; SurveyPopUps.com collect stats & information about your patrons impressions; FreeOnlineSurveys.com free embedded surveys on your website or in email without extra software or programing; Wufoo.com embeds forms on websites & collection information as well as surveys; limits on a free account will probably not work for most libraries so you probably need to pay;

SWF specification                                                                                                                      5 July 2008
file format to deliver rich Internet applications(RIA) & interactive content via Adobe Flash Player; installed on 98%+ of Internet-connected computers; RIAs & dynamic web content have been difficult to expose to search engines because of their changing states; SWF format delivers vector graphics, text, video, & sound over the Internet & is supported by Adobe® Flash® Player & Adobe AIR™ software; Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google & Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing; See Media Wombat Flash Search Engine;

Table2Clipboard                                                                                                                      9 July 2006
Firefox extension - cut & paste Web tables into Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc database program

Tablets                                                                                                                                        4 February 2011
Current crop of Tablets: iPad, Motorola Xoom, others compared; 10 hottest tablets coming in 2011; Kindle Fire tablet review;

Tag Cloud Generators                                                                                                            5 September 2008
Wordle, Tagcrowd , or Tag Cloud Generator can be used for analysing documents; tag cloud bring to the fore your most used terms & discover where you have placed the emphasis;

Take Charge of What Web Sites Know About You    IE, Firefox & Opera settings                   27 February 2006

Tal.ki embeddable forums (utilises Single Sign-On (SSO); join via Facebook or Twitter login)   26 June 2010
Can be embedded onto multiple websites; can seamlessly integrate with existing system; Plugind & widgets allow one click installs on your favourite providers from Google to Wordpress;

Talkita(Chrome extension ) lets you chat with users currently viewing same website                    21 December 2010

TCP IP - Language of Internet                                                                                                   4 April 2006

TeamViewer Windows 98+, Max OS X 10.4+, & Linux                                                      10 July 2010
screen-sharing & file-transfers between business partners & others; share access code to remotely access computer or share screens;

Techmeme news portal                                                                                                                6 May 2009
Technology story selection via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input;

Technorati                                                                                                                                   1 March 2004
Specify Weblog URL, see who links to it;  keyword blog search; Technorati Kitchen; Technorati favourites; Technorati tags; Technorati WTF annotates keyword search results; organizers encourage bloggers to use standard tag for conference blog posts; Watchlist;

Tech support & expert help, tips, & advice(WebLens)                                                                3 Jun 2011

Telephony over the web see Internet telephony

Template Chaser for website, CMS, design, office, software                                                       14 December 2009
Sphinx-based search engine; 43000+ commercial templates from several providers over; price, browse for ideas; advanced search options(Category, type, max &/or min price);   

Terrible Twos: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, & More By Greg R. Notess, in Online, Vol 30, No 3.  8 July 2006

Text Analysis Markup System(TAMS) Analyzer 3.50b14                                                          22 Novembeer 2007
for qualitative analyses of texts, interviews etc; With this program, users assign ethnographic codes to text passages by selecting relevant text & double clicking the name of the code of a list; compatible with computers running Mac OS X 10.4+

Text extraction from HTML documents - Overview - Resources                                                                 29 March 2011

Text mining software See Data mining software

theinfo.org exchange large datasets, tips & tricks, develop & share tools, integrate projects         1 March 2008

Threddie simple, post-&-comment system for quick brainstorms                                                    15 August 2010

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

TinyURL                                                                                                                                   24 February 2003
Entering URL in text field creates tiny URL that will not break in email postings & never expires; toolbar resides as entry in IE's Links toolbar; see also Snip URL, DigBig; (19 Nov 2007) Outage Illustrates the Service's Risks;

Top Level Domains(TLD) & sponsoring organizations                                                               13 November 2003

Topicalizer allows you to break down text                                                                                  16 February 2007
enter block of text or URL for word count, average number of words per sentence/paragraph, most frequent words & phrases (phrases cover varying number of words), longest & shortest sentence, estimates of readability, suggested keywords, abstract; tools page; find similar documents; do augmented keyword extraction (like getting "fibrocystic disease of the breast" from the first paragraph of Tell Tale Heart augmented); FAQ, blog, API is also available; .

Topicmarks allows users to create interactive synopses from electronic documents                        14 May 2011
upload texts to site for shortening cutting full text into sentences, attaching meaning like synonyms & antonyms to each word in sentence, & identifying triplets that are basic facts expressed in the text; FAQ; compatible with all operating systems

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system                                                                     21 April 2005
toolset for safety & security on Internet; anonymize web browsing & publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH; platform on which software developers build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, privacy features; supported by Electronic Frontier Foundation

Torrent Portal                                                                                                                           22 December 2005
online community for sharing & discussing BitTorrent files(games, films, TV, music); search feature; directory of Windows BitTorrent programs; tutorial &  glossary, chat room, user forums; free membership; Top 35 torrent sites of 2009; uTorrent 2.0 Beta fixes & improvements including UDP Support: UDP trackers are a different protocol for tracker communication using less processing power on the tracker end; uTP communication method for BitTorrent traffic allows client to automatically regulate bandwidth usage & avoid impacting internet connection; Fix uTorrent (& other application) quirks in Windows 7; httpTorrents downloads Torrents via your browser; Torrific:find, download any T over HTTP;  

Total Validator Firefox extension -  5 in one: HTML; CSS; Total Validator; Firefox; extensions  27 May 2006

Trailfire Toolbar 1.0.978 See also Sticky notes for web pages                                                 16 February 2007
allows users to leave electronic notes on webpages for other visitors, view “guides” posted by other users, basic tutorial, support forums; Windows XP+;

Transcription Playback Software(Express Scribe)  free                                                              25 October 2008
Digital transcription audio player software controlled using transcription foot pedal or keyboard (with 'hot' keys); Variable speed playback (constant pitch); works with all major word-processor applications; Automatically receives & loads files by internet(FTP), email or local computer network; Works with speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking to automatically convert speech to text; Integrates with Express Scribe SDK dictation management systems;

Translate a web page                                                                                                               1 September 2004
Systran, Fagan Finder(Translation Wizard), Babel Fish(AltaVista) or alphaWorks - Machine Translation(IBM.); imperfect translations; free online translation services: Worldlingo.com, Google.com, Altavista.com, Freetranslation.com, Imtranslator.com, Alphaworks.com, Comprendium.es, Bestiland, Tranexp.com, Interpret.co.za, Toggletext.com, Nazgol.co.il, Lingvo.org, Internostrum.com, Sli.uvigo.es, Ocn.ne.jp, Nifty.amikai.com;

Translation Engines                                                                                                                      1 January 2002
20+ engines/tools/services providing professional translation engines New Translation Services Come to MS Office & JaJah; open translation(or crowd sourced translation); Google translate includes Polish Babelfish does not; (Nov 09)translates as you type, handles non- Roman characters, hear English translation of foreign text;

Transref.org free Web service hub; online directory of translators, expert advice, training, tools

Trends in communications & media  technology, applications & use                                             26 April 2009
Australian Communications & Media Authority the regulator for broadcasing, the internet, radio communications and telecommunications;

Trillian 0.73(Cerulean Studios)  instant messaging tool                                                                13 July 2002
one-stop portal for chat imports chat specifics ( passwords, buddy lists, client preferences) in a single interface, allows simultaneous connection with: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ, mIRC,  AIM; free noncommercial use; Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

TRIM(Total Records & Information Management) Hewlett-Packard                                           19 September 2010
electronic document & records management system(EDRMS) for organizations marketed by HP Software & Solutions based on technology from Hewlett-Packard's 2008 acquisition of TOWER Software; HP TRIM is designed to help businesses capture, manage, & secure business information in order to meet governance & regulatory compliance obligations;

Troubleshooting Tools & Utilities                                                                                                13 February 2002
Ping & Traceroute; check status of web sites that appear to be down, connection throughput, trace junk email, identify unauthorized intruders; virus & hacker tools; Troubleshoot a flaky Internet connection; MakeUseOf Answers fast, free, no registration;

TrueSwitch makes changing your Internet Service Provider easy                                                   18 May 2009
copy personal data to a new account, notify everyone of new email address, forward emails sent to your old email address & help cancel old account; used for migration of your contacts & email from other webmail services (list) to Gmail;

Tumblr microblogging & publishing platform  Complete guide to Tumblr(22 July 2010)               18 August 2011
build a web scrapbook of text, quotes, links & images in different categories of information (review); iPhone app, publish direct to website by sending an email to a unique address, or upload audio content by calling a specific phone number; creators retain copyright; Write here, right now - How Tumblr changed blogging: Part One; Part Two; Whereas most platforms, like Blogger or Wordpress, offer one type of “blog entry”, Tumblr has different categories of information(text, photo, quote, link, chat audio, video; Complete guide to Tumblr;

TV content platforms - Joost (fmly Venice Project™ )                                                             23 February 2007

Twine                                                                                                                                          4 February 2008
scan most electronic documents for names of people, places, businessess, tag items in orange & index, add subjects inferred from context; subscribers save URLs etc in collections, or *twines,* private, share them in groups or  make them public; T. could surpass Delicious, prepares Ontology Authoring tool;

Twitter communication platform (Microblogging web service) Twitter history;                              21 November 2007
hybrid of chat, social networking & blogging; RWW Guide to the World's Most Popular Twitter Clients search engines & public message display tools, publishing tools; See also Microblogging; Evolution of Communication: From Email to Twitter & Beyond; Twitter: One Librarian's Experience Karen Blakeman comments on her experience using Twitter at a conference to help colleagues who could not attend; Twittermeter: Measuring Buzz in the Twittersphere; Tweet Scan real-time search engine for Twitter posts; leading 3rd party Twitter client Twhirl (built in Adobe AIR); US House of Representatives & Senate report live events for Twitter registrants; TwitterLinkr: Twitter Keyword RSS Feeds free Web service to query select Twitter posts & display results or receive them as RSS; search by keyword or review postings of certain members; formula for converting search or tracking results to RSS feeds - http://www.twitterlinkr.com/rss.xml?nutzer=membername; for search results -  http://www.twitterlinkr.com/rss.xml?suche=keyword; .may be vulnerable to phishing  & other types of attack. Take precautions when following links; How We Use Twitter for Journalism; Alternatives to Twitter; @answerme helps facilitate question & answer over Twitter; Summize searches Twitter in real time; 3 ways to search Twitter; 50 ideas on using Twitter for business; How companies use Twitter to bolster their brands(Business Week); Twilert Twitter search alerts via email; Twitter journalists webcast(Columbia J-school New Media Program blog); LifestreamBackup: Keeping a copy of your posts, tweets, photos, & more; Twitter etiquette: 14 ways to use Twitter politely; use Snipt.org for sharing code on Twitter; copy & paste code, naming programming language; provides short URL, preserves formatting of code & colors it according to specified programming language for easier reading; understands 125+ programming & scripting languages, ranging from C++ & Perl, to LaTeX & Python; N.B. snipt.net is not related to snipt.org as far as we can tell & focuses on creating a repository of code snippets; Search for Twitter applications with Twtbase; Tweetzi lets you pause the stream of tweets; primer on Twitter; Twellow.com, Twitter Yellow Pages 2.8m+listings; 6 ways you should use Twitter; Use Excel as a Twitter client: Excel’s built-in ability to read an RSS feed opens up analysis possibilities; Twitscoop: tweet, search & monitor Twitter in real-time for news & info flows; True P2P file sharing via Twitter; FileTwt: what Twitter feeds others are monitoring(equivalent in blogosphere is looking at bloggers' blog rolls (blogs that a blogger lists as valuable); Twitalyzer measures how collaborative & interactive a twitterer is measuring 5 factors: Influence - how many people follow you, how often others forward your tweets; Signal- to-noise ratio - how often you pass along useful information, such as a URL; Generosity - propensity to "re-tweet"; Velocity - volume & frequency of tweets( T. limits you to 1500 tweets/week); Clout - number of times another twitterer mentions your Twitter-name; Filtering Twitter's noise with Mixero; SongTwit service for swapping songs on Twitter; Robin Good's T. communication strategy; T. Resources Map tree of applications, tools, & widgets for content published & distributed through T; BingTweets presents sets of T tag clouds - trends from T divided into categories(People, Places, Products, Popular Now); T ideas: guide for newbies & skeptics(Sree Sreenivasan); 5 video apps that play nicely with Twitter; T doesn't archive tweets & list of friends or followers for more than a few weeks, use backup service Tweetake or Tweetback; Advanced search; 10 ways to archive tweets; Twitlet T bookmarklet allows you to tweet content of any
web page without opening another page or software; installs as a standard bookmarklet on browser links toolbar & allows you to select any text on a web page & T it; add text & comments within standard 140 chars; adding #this or #link command  inside tweet includes current page's URL in tweet; Lists of Twitter users; a few thoughts by philipbradley; 6 websites to search images shared on Twitter; TwInbox: use Twitter from Outlook free plug in to view & manage your Twitterstream from Outlook. Technical requirements are Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 with latest Service Pack. Outlook 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, 2010 (32-bit & 64-bit.). N.B. does NOT work with Outlook Express; features include: Update Twitter status & receive Twitterstream updates, Archive, manage, group & search tweets in the way you manage email, Search & track keywords, Group tweets by sender, topic, etc using Search, Manage multiple Twitter accounts, Assign custom folder & categories to new messages, Use Outlook's "Reply" & "ReplyAll" commands to send twitter direct messages & @replies, Automatically sort new tweets into folders, Shorten URLs with bit.ly, See graphs of Twitter usage statistics; Library of Congress acquires Twitter archive; Google launches Twitter timeline search; Ultimate list of T tools; How to delete your social networking accounts; Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use OAuth technology tot enable access to T on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password; link wrapping service t.co (URL shortener) for all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps; 16 September 2010: New architecture includes embedded YouTube videos & other content, revenue-generating business; 3 Jan 2011: New T.has @mentions, retweets, searches, & lists above your timeline in a streamlined view, see embedded photos & videos directly via partnerships with DailyBooth, DeviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, yfrog, & YouTube, Tweet details pane shows additional information related to author or subject, click a @username for mini profile; Visualization with Twitter - Twiangulate & MentionMap;    

TwitAlbums: private, collaborative content sharing via Twitter;                                                         8 January 2010

UK eInformation Group(UKeiG, formerly UKOLUG)                                                                    3 April 2010
professional body for users & developers of electronic information resources; Blog; e-journal eLucidate focuses on popular and emerging topics in electronic information; free Factsheets regularly updated by experts; LIS-UKEIG Discussion List members forum to exchange information on developments in information resources online, CD-ROM or Internet;

Universal Serial Bus(USB): FAQ                                                                                              29 October 2004
connection between personal computers & peripherals; support & installation; cables, connectors, networking; USB On-The-Go (OTG) developed for portable computing devices such as hand-helds, cell phones & digital cameras

UNIX manual                                                                                                                          12 June 2004

Unlocking URLs: (Online V. 27 No. 3, May/June 2003)  Extensions, Shortening Options, & Other Oddities   

Unstructured Information Management Architecture(UIMA, IBM)                                            8 September 2005
Open Source download supports new breed of software to process text within documents & content sources, understand meaning,  relationship & buried facts

URLinfo                                                                                                                                   26 August 2004
info about specific web page/site. 86 services: General (WHOIS & more), Links (Backlink info), Similar (related page links from sources including Google), Cache (Direct links to databases caching links), Search, Blogs/Feeds (Daypop, Syndic8, other blog/rss tools), Translate (Fagan Finder Translation Wizard) , Track (page changes), Develop (Validation tools), Misc (Traffic stats from Alexa et al); SEO 101 - Part 6: Everything you need to know about search engine friendly URLs & broken links; What is a URI & why does it Matter? by Henry S. Thompson(Ariadne, no.65, Oct 2010);

URL shorteners A short look at URL Shorteners(freepint Fumsi)                                              23 October 2003
DigBig (excellent when putting URLs into tables or spreadsheets), Shorter URLS(see above); LookLeap integrates host name for easier recall; (2 Aug 07)URL Shortening Services: A Mini-Guide; (19 Nov 07)TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service's Risks; Bit.ly saves cached copy of every link-shortened page on Amazon's S3 storage, tracks clickthrough numbers & referrers traffic, has simple API adding Bit.ly functionality to web apps, data accessible by XML & JSON feeds; javascript submission bookmarklet & user accounts available soon; TinyURL down & links being broken for at least a day or two every month (Nov 08); Krunchd crunches a list of URLs into one; Sqworl: a lightbox for shared links; Tinyarro.ws: becauseTinyURLS just aren't tiny enough; TinyURL Decoder; Tini.us features  password protection & aggregated comments about URL visited; Bit.ly has unseated TinyURL as default link shortening service on Twitter; Archiving shortened URLS: Internet Archive launches 301Works.Org; All URL shorteners are not equal; pick a speedy & reliable one;  link wrapping service t.co (URL shortener) for all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps; Bit.ly vs. Google on shorteners & QR codes; 11 Jun 2011: 6 URL shorteners with a twist; 1 Feb 2012: Unofficial URL shortener etiquette;       

Usability - ignore it at your peril!(FreePint no. 163,15 Jul 2004)Usability guidelines See also Jacob Nilsen website & his articles   

UsableLogin Gives You One Login For All The Web  browser plugin                                     13 September 2008

USB 3.0   up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0                                                                        7 October 2010
USB 3.0 is making its appearance in new PCs, external hard drives,& other device; 2 barriers to its widespread deployment are lack of support in PC chipsets & in the Windows OS; 101 Guide to USB Thumb Drive(43 page eBook);

User experience(UX) See User experience design(Wikipedia)                                             15 May 2011

User interfaces(UI)                                                                                                              24 July 2008
Ubiquity-Firefox(project) application launcher provides a different way to navigate & interact with your computer through use of keyboard shortcuts & typed commands

Userscripts scripts available for installation; scripts, tags, forums, people, blog, books              4 May 2008

Vanish Self-Destructing Digital Data                                                                                        23 July 2009
encrypts your data, even cached or archived chunks, to become "permanently unreadable" at a date of your choosing, without any action on the part of the service provider or end-user;

Video aggregators                                                                                                                 31 August 2006
Vdiddy daily videos from YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace Video, Yahoo Video, Grouper, iFilm, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Revver, Sharkle & Break.com; play videos on site; See also Dabble & VideoBomb; Digg video section; 5 video apps that play nicely with Twitter

Video chat                                                                                                                            19 September 2010
Gmail enables video chat: you can now use voice & video capabilities in Gmail, iGoogle & orkut chat; Chat in Gmail isn't yet compatible with all supported browsers. Gmail chat is supported on the older version of Gmail in Internet Explorer 6.0 & Firefox 1.0. In the newer version of Gmail, you can use chat with Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 2.0+ or Safari 3.0+, & Chrome. In iGoogle or orkut, we recommend using Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari or Chrome;

Video converters                                                                                                                   30 December 2007
vixy.net: Online FLV converter: Download online videos direct to PC/iPod/PSP free..convert Flash Video/FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP); submit url to download & convert to video format; Win & Mac versions; Movavi online video converter; add URL of file to online converter to convert files up to 100MB; select output format; FAQ & short guides to using program; compatible with all operating systems;

Video editors  See also  Graphics editors
JayCut free online to edit video with any mobile device in any web media & publish to any device or website; Upload videos, photos, music, or record using your webcam to edit & make new videos within your web browser; Export to YouTube; in 10 languages; Basics of video editing: complete guide; 

VideoLan VLC media player See VLC

VideoSurf Video Link Enhancer                                                                                                 5 October 2009
play videos from page without an embedded player or a link; takes links to videos & creates a player over your page for embeddable videos from sites including YouTube, Hulu, Metacafe, Blip.tv;

VIF 0.7.0                                                                                                                                27 August 2005
open source project to create discussion forums with structured threads for participating in online conversations; simple registration; all operating systems

Virtual hard drive from Lycos UK                                                                                            14 September 2004
1 gigabyte on Lycos servers(10 Mb free); Google & Yahoo! offer 2 gigabyte of space for GMail & Yahoo! mail customers for mails & email attachments only

Virtualisation                                                                                                                         15 September 2011
free virtualisation software download Computer In Your Computer: How To Use VirtualBox;

Virtual Machines                                                                                                                 23 November 2007
TechTarget launches search engine for VMware links to articles, topics, & site features relevant to VMware; keyword search & advanced search in different sections(expert advice, news, white papers, etc.) or in different sections of a document (title, URL); Beginner’s guide to creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox(virtual machines generally refer to x86 virtualisation software that allows an entire operating system (guest) to run on another OS ( Host),  in a container windowfull-screen, or in “seamless” mode, where just one application is run from the “guest”)

Virtual meetings See Web conferencing

Virtual Octopus(vOctopus) Web Server 0.7(Google)                                                                8 March 2010
to extract clean & integrate web embedded-data; CGI support (Python, Ruby, Perl)

Virtual Private Library™ Information & Specifications - Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs    14 June 2004
creates private libraries powered by Subject Tracer Bots™ developed by Bot Pioneer & Guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A; custom subjects created for personal, professional & corporate use through Internet or private networks; See Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian, featured site at Library Link of the Day on Sunday March 28, 2004.

Virtual private networks(vpns)                                                                                                30 December 2011
Tunnelbear free, easy to install allows users to securely connect to another computer, server or home PC, & acts as proxy for all communications, websites & servicesconnected communicate only with vpn server; Users outside US, or US citizens abroad, can use vpn servers to connect to sites such as Pandora, Hulu  limited to users from US; compatible with 32-bit & 64-bit editions of Windows & systems running Apple Mac OSX 10.6+; free account limits monthly data transfer to 500 Megabytes, commercial account allows unlimited transfers; Free accounts protected with 128-bit algorithm, paid accounts have 256-bit data encryption; See also Hotspot Shield, Ultra VPN or Vypr VNP  free for Giganews Diamond account owners;

Visualisation tools                                                                                                             15 March 2008
Anacubis visualizes Amazon, Google & Hoover's; Grokker 2.0(US $49.95 subscription); SmartMoney's Map of the Market for stock market data; Amazon, Google, & LiveJournal visualization tools from TouchGraph; Google News Map; Client software: Personal Brain; Groxis; Best Tools for Visualization; See also Data visualisation; Blogscope analysis & visualization tool for blogosphere tracks 30.8m+ blogs with 541.71m posts; Data Visualisation Research Paper Australian Bureau of Statistics(ABS) research paper analyses existing data visualisation tools & techniques & highlights practical examples displaying statistical data in a variety of ways; Flowing Data examples of data visualization; Data visualisation: tools & examples; 7 things you should know about Data Visualization; Google Fusion Tables; Viewing large data sets with Google Maps; Visual.ly community & search resource for visualisations links into data from government agencies, non-profits & other research- & data-focused entities & lets you create images, using your data & their images & design options;

Visual.ly world's community for exploring, sharing, creating, & promoting data visualizations        15 July 2011
search resource for interesting visualisations links into data from government agencies, non-profits & other research- & data-focused entities & lets you create images, using your data & their images & design options;

VLC 1.1 brings hardware acceleration & lighter operation to media playing                                23 June 2010   
Windows operating system, Mac or Linux, plays most formats, uses minimal system resources; VLC tips & tricks: Streaming capabilities, Rip & transcode videos, Internet radio & podcast management, Video effects, Snapshots, Play video as ASCII output;19 Jan 2012: Get ready for VLC Media Player 2.0: VLC plays nearly every media format out of the box, without codec hunting & installation, biggest improvements are 64-bit version for Windows, port to mobile operating systems & Blu-Ray playback support;

VLURL's (Very Long URLs) See URL Shorteners

VocabGrabber:  takes any text, gives language learners visual aid                                              22 May 2009
produces a color-coded tag cloud  & handles large text files e.g. entire text of Plato's Symposium; vocabulary words can be mapped using Visual Thesaurus on limited trial or subscription basis; 

vOctopus(Virtual Octopus) Web Server 0.7(Google)                                                                8 March 2010
to extract clean & integrate web embedded-data; CGI support (Python, Ruby, Perl)

VoDMaker screen recorder                                                                                                   22 September 2005
recording video clips, whatever format or DRM system; records audio & video simultaneously in any AVI codecs, including DivX, XviD & Microsoft MPEG-4 v3; maximum 10 frame per second recording rate - not broadcast quality like TechSmith Camtasia;

VoiceBase searchable database of voice recordings, transcriptions                                            22 September 2010
import conversations, interviews, lectures, voice recordings free; VoiceBase transcribes & makes them searchable; keyword search results highlight search terms so you can go straight to part of recording or transcription you need; 2 hours free storage; pay for more;

VOIP(Voice Over Internet Telephony) See Internet Telephony

Voice-activated Internet: text-free Tweeting, blogging etc                                                         14 January 2010

Voice over Internet Protocol(VOIP)                                                                                       14 September 2003
telephone from broadband Internet connection instead of(analog) phone; FAQ, press releases & statements, related documents from Federal Communications Commission(FCC); e.g. (September 1 2005) Microsoft's Teleo & Skype; see also VOIP; Fax over VOIP; Fring: brings 3G VoIP & Video Calling to iPhone; 22 Mar 2011: Sprint & Google Voice to be integrated so that Sprint phone users can tap into Google Voice's features without a special app;

walk2web visual search engine (Firefox & Explorer browser plug-ins)                                     27 July 2008
starting URL screenshot sample & first two levels of search network, with sites as color coded nodes, no more than six at a time, split between incoming & outgoing links with options to display more in either direction; explore network via directional tools;

WAV to MP3 Audio Converter                                                                                             18 December 2009

Web 2.0 a new generation of services(Phil Bradley)                                                           10 June 2006
Part 1; Part 2 ; See also Terrible Twos: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, &d More; 27 June 2007: Keeping Tabs on Web 2.0; Web 2.0 Directory; Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 by Michael Zimmer(First Monday Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008);       

Web 2.0: Building the New Library - a platform spanning all connected devices                     10 November 2005
Web 2.0 applications use advantages of platform: delivering software as continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming & remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data & services in form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through architecture of participation & going beyond page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences(Tim O'Reilly); See 2.0 Websites Directory what’s available in Web 2.0; 

web2ftp.com                                                                                                                       19 September 2005
access any FTP account through a Web interface whether there is a firewall or not; administration of your homepage, downloading files or making changes

Web2Text - HTML to plain text converter                                                                            7 June 2003
Ms Office & Internet Explorer mangle layout of the original; much structure of HTML document can be retained after conversion, e.g. paragraphs, header emphasis, URLs; mark italicised words with * & bold with underscore. (italics & bold markers can be customised)

Web analytics software  See Google Analytics & Piwik open source alternative using PHP & MySQL

Web Application Development Platforms                                                                            17 May 2007
Mozilla, Google favored over Adobe, Microsoft; LongJump Developer Suite's PaaS(Platform-as-a-Service) model helps developers extend LongJump building new applications code free; (review) customizable & reusable building blocks like objects, scripts, component extensions, business logic, data policies, & workflows; free 30 day trial; Java-based development environment with plug-in to Eclipse IDE(Integrated Development Environment) provides service integration points using SOAP & RESTful APIs to connect to external systems; See also Iceberg: everyone can program; Blue Spruce, IBM's next generation browser based application platform; See also Search tools for web applications & Web publishing platforms; Google Wave; 

Web clipping services                                                                                                           26 April 2005
(Online, May/June 2005) compares traditional alerting services(Dialog, LexisNexis) to Web clipping services & media analysis tools; traditional media services find historic business strategy, historic marketing strategy, management biographies, mergers & acquisitions, geographical markets, R&D. Web clipping services, media analysis tools & consumer Web sites (Epinions, Consumer Democracy) find future geographic markets, future customer segments, products, product development, customer service, customer satisfaction, brand image, promotion, employees' attitudes & morale & trade unions

Web Collaborator(Wiki + Blog)                                                                                              1 October 2004
online groups work effectively on the same document; designed with extra security & control over who contributes & who reads output; free for everyone but those who install its technology behind their organization's firewall to their LDAP directory; all platforms

Web conferencing                                                                                                                 26 January 2007
Yugma (free, Windows & Mac); See also Online Guide to Best Web Conferencing & Live Presentation Tools (Feb 04); ooVoo 1.7.1.35 video conferencing & chat tool with recording capability; Web conferencing; web conferencing & online meeting applications Adobe Connect Pro, Skype & join.me have subscription pricing, Skype & join.me also have free versions;

Web content managers(WCM)                                                                                             2 September 2004
Furl, Onfolio, Seruku, Surfulater, & SurfSaver save copies of Web pages to a permanent store, search  & browse; ContentSaver desktop-based with Internet Explorer toolbar to capture & annotate content & Outlook-like program to search  & review saved Web pages; annotate with metadata to facilitate searching; 30 day free trial; $US39.90; wURLdBook Internet Intelligence; WebCite® on-demand archiving system for webreferences(cited webpages & websites, Internet-accessible digital objects), fory authors, editors, & publishers of scholarly papers & books to ensure cited web material available to future readers; 100 journals+ in WebCite Consortium use WebCite routinely; no formal membership or registration for individual scholars; Open Source WCM: Commercial OS - tools that have an open source code base but a single, dominent commercial firm backing the project - www.alfresco.com; www.dotnetnuke.com; //ez.no; www.hippocms.org; www.magnolia-cms.com; Community OS - packages available under OS licensing terms frequently bundle portal & community functions with OS - drupal.org; www.joomla.org(PHP based); www.opencms.org; plone.org; typo3.org; platform orientation more friendly to developers & power users than to casual business contributors; 12 Aug 09: Top 12 options for WCM; iCyte highlight & save text, save sections of webpages or whole; free, works with popular browsers, Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 7 or 8required to save webpage content; 10 Aug 2011: Yahoo! Bookmarks down for maintenance – for three months! - stops online bookmark users from adding new pages & Yahoo! recently sold the renowned bookmarking service delicious.com in an effort to refocus;

Web data extractors sites & resources (July 2009 Zillman Column)                                       26 June 2009
sites & resources to gather data from the world wide web using your computer, netbook, cell phone, or mobile device; Gleanr understands collected value of your assets, stores them for future use, encoding them into a personal index(like a search engine's index) that organizes your web presence: ideas, resources, people, places, events, emails, documents; accessible from any Internet-connected computer; Memonic: Clip & organise data from web; Feb 2011 update: Awareness watch newsletter, V9N2; ScraperWiki centralised location for custom-built scrapers which turn web pages into usable data such as RSS feed or database; See also Text extraction from HTML documents - Overview - Resources; 19 Nov 2011: Fat Pings, what are they, why you need them as a webmaster to avoid outranking by content scrapers; 24 Jan 2012: GUI DEiXTo(or ΔEiXTo) 2.9.6 free Windows software for scraping records from older repositories that don’t use OAI-PMH(Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting); 28 Jan 2012: Google Search harvesting utilities from Sobolsoft - Google Save Search Results; Google Extract Data & Text; and Excel Import Multiple Google Search Results - no longer work on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9; : 

Web hosting See Storage space on Web

Web Office suites                                                                                                                   22 August 2007
Google Docs & Spreadsheets; Basics: Google Notebook; Microsoft Office Live; Zoho(4 Oct 07); Google Spreadsheets turns into Google Wiki(May2008) edit a spreadsheet without a Google account; Zoho DB Launched; Zoho adds macro recording; ThinkFree; Zimbra (now with Yahoo); Web Office defined - How it's evolved from 2005(30 Aug 07); 10 online Office apps; ShareOffice; ContactOffice; ajax13 suite includes ajaxWrite, ajaxPresents, ajaxSketch, ajaxXLS, ajaxTunes on web operating system AjaxWindows; OpenOffice 2.2.1 multi- platform office productivity; open-source; word processor, presentation manager, drawing program; 65+ supported languages; Windows 98+ Mac OS X 10.1+; Go-OO enhanced interface installed on OpenOffice is easier to navigate & has importer to handle DOCX, XLSX, & PPTX formats & natively supports SVG files; Graphics rendering improved, VBA support, Mono integration, better display of Chinese characters, support for WordPerfect graphics; Windows XP+; July 2009 OpenOffice 3.0.1(Sun Microsystems) for desktops in Windows, Apple Macs & Linux:  Adobe enters Web Office fray (9 Oct 07)developing Buzzword using Adobe AIR software to work on- & off-line; PDF support; integrated with Adobe Share online storage locker(to 1Gb); WebEx WebOffice: It's a Web Office Jim, But Not As We Know It; Live Documents built using RIA(rich Internet application) technologies including Flash & Flex; Web Office: 2007 Year in Review; Lulu web-based self-publishing service, providing online access to tools to design, publish, & print original material, including books, brochures, reports, calendars, posters (review); Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications; Free Online Word Processors; Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office(22 Feb 2008), Au contraire; Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison; ThinkFree word processor, spreadsheet & slideshow app, Microsoft-compatible desktop software, including support for Office 2007 formats; sync tool ThinkFree Manager, uploads changes made offline; Workspace feature provides online collaboration & sharing functionality, though not in real time; offline/online functionality now available free; 1GB of free online storage for your documents, Note word processor can function as a blogging tool; mobile version can view & edit online documents from any Java-based PDA or smartphone; 7 Google Docs Templates; Google Docs now has built-in version of Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & thesaurus; look up any term in Encyclopedia Britannica; no support for footnotes & endnotes available on Zoho & Thinkfree Online; Zoho vs Microsoft & Google part 1 ; part2: Zoho cookbook; Shutterborg online word processor lets you open any URL & edit it like an Office document in .HTML format. (formats like .TXT, .ODT, .DOC later); Zoho Gadgets integrates data from Zoho applications into Facebook, Gmail, iGoogle, Orkut & other online networks using the OpenSocial standard to deliver data from Zoho Docs, Zoho Mail, Zoho Calendar, Zoho Tasks, Zoho Contacts, & Zoho Planner; Zoho plugin turns Microsoft Access databases into Web Apps; Poll: which would you pay for? Adobe or Google?; Break from MS Office with free alternatives; Lotus Symphony 1.3 free pructivity suite adds Microsoft Office support; More good reasons to leave Office on the shelf; View & share PDFs with Google Docs; OpenOffice.org Portable 3.1 open platform program used with any storage device (eg USB drive) includes email client, instant messaging client, PDF reader compatible with Windows 2000+; OpenOffice.org 3.2. 0 contains spreadsheet application, word processor, presentation manager; features blog publishing assistance & compatibility with other applications & file; Mac OS X 10.4+ & Windows 2000+; Microsoft Office Web Apps requiring Windows Live signon(no-country-restricted version) offers free doc editing with 25GB storage: free, cloud-based viewing & editing suite; Compare Office Web Apps to Google Docs; Office Web Apps cloud-based office supplement now available through Windows Live & Hotmail accounts in Australia. Check out how it compares to full-blown Office & to its rival Google Docs; OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 suite includes applications to make text documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, & databases, includes templates for professional writers, export tool for functionality with Google Docs, enhanced blog publishing, for Mac OS X 10.4+; free Windows/Mac/Linux OpenOffice.org spin-off, LibreOffice version 3.3 features ability to export to Microsoft’s DOCX format by default, download with BitTorrent, new features & fixes & general release notes; OpenOffice.org package released under a different banner, for various reasons; Microsoft Office 2010: ultimate tips & tricks; LibreOffice 3.3.4 open source productivity suite contains a word processing application, detailed calculator, & "Impress" tool allows users to enhance with 2D & 3D clip art, special effects, & transition styles. This version is compatible with computers running Windows 2000+, Mac OS X 10.3+, & Linux;

Web page editors                                                                                                                  10 June 2007
SynthaSite(alpha) online web publishing platform - browser based AJAX mashup, social collaboration; See also Effectively testing your website in multiple browsers; Create a hotkey to paste plain text In Microsoft Word; More browser-as-website-editor fun with TypeRoom Pro; TypeRoom Lite free lite-weight, instant CMS for simple websites; Zimplit free open source(review);

Web publishing platforms                                                                                                   4 August 2007
SynthaSite(alpha) online web publishing platform - browser based AJAX mashup, social collaboration; Platform Wars: Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget; Platforms on the Web are Platforms on a Platform; Mozilla Weave Web Platform for User Data framework for services integration stores users' browser metadata in a cloud environment for access anywhere; MySpace Developer Platform integrated with Flock; OpenBox open platform lets developers contribute Box.net which lets users edit photos & images online with Picnik, work on Word & Excel files using Zoho, publish documents through Scribd, send documents signed with EchoSign; users invite collaborators to any folder in their account; Wordpress semantic personal publishing platform - aesthetics, web standards, usability - free open source with plug-in architecture; support forum; Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR) platform combines web qualities with presence on desktop making it easy to build Internet connected applications that live outside browser; The Best Things About Adobe's AIR Platform; APIs & Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros & Cons; Elgg Social Networking open-source social web application licensed under GPL version 2, run on LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or WAMP(Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform combining elements of blogging, e-portfolios, news feed aggregation, file sharing, social networking; plug-in architecture & use plug-ins to provide calendar & wiki; support open standards including RSS, LDAP for authentication, FOAF, & XML-RPC for integration with 3rd-party blogging clients; integrates with MediaWiki, Moodle, Drupal, & WebCT; (3 June 2008)Adobe Launches Online Office Suite & New Flash-Enabled Acrobat 9 - Acrobat.com entry point to Adobe's suite of services, integrated suite for online collaboration with tools: Buzzword word processor, ConnectNow whiteboarding & web conferencing, Share file sharing, My Files document organizer & storage space, & Create PDF free online PDF converter; Geocities 2.0: Website creation tools for Social Web;  Omeka 0.9.2(Center for History & New Media, & Minnesota Historical Society)for publishing exhibitions & collections online; compatible with all operating systems; 10 Promising Web Platforms; Comparing Web Platforms; Habari  blogging platform supports static pages, Atom publishing, tagging, multiple authors, multiple sites under one install, import from Serendipty & WordPress, integrates with Flickr, Viddler; Azure™ Services Platform(Azure) internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers provides operating system & developer services to build new applications run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities; open architecture to build web applications, applications running on connected devices, PCs, servers, or hybrid solutions offering the best of online & on-premises; See also Web Application Development Platforms above; Top 10 web platforms of 2008; Blue Spruce, IBM's next generation browser based application platform; Web services platforms Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine & AWS(Amazon Web Services); Omeka free & open source collections based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, & cultural enthusiasts; “5e-minute setup” for online exhibitions; designed with non-IT specialists in mindusing Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction & participation; EtherPad real time collaboration tool & hosting service for apps built with server-side JavaScript; Socialtext enterprise platform; freemium price plan dubbed "Socialtext Free 50"(free for 50 users); Google Wave; Forget Google & Amazon, DoD shows what a real cloud platform can do(RACE(Rapid Access Computing Environment)); 5 best blogging platforms; Microsoft SharePoint enterprise information management(EIM) for document management, collaboration & web editing, SharePoint 2010 oriented towards internal social networks (review); Historious - search title & content of indexed pages; free, located in the cloud, overview actually improves with quantity; works across browsers by bookmarklet; (free) registration; Google Chrome extension works like bookmarklet; no categories, names, lists; searches page content; Google Shared Spaces helps you use G Wave’s gadgets for collaboration, Create virtual work spaces; 25 Feb 2011: Scribd social reading & publishing company/online platform to publish & discover Web documents; 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; Tumblr microblogging platform allows users to build a web scrapbook of text, quotes, links & images in different categories of information (review); iPhone app, publish direct to website by sending an email to a unique address, or upload audio content by calling a specific phone number; creators retain copyright; Complete guide to Tumblr;

Web readers                                                                                                                                25 December 2011
ReadCube free web reader app lets you highlight & add notes to PDF documents, find articles through a search feature that accesses Google Scholar, PubMed, or any library of documents that you import; 

Web Robots Pages                                                                                                                      30 March 2003
Web Wanderer, Crawler, or Spider(robot) programs traverse Web automatically; FAQ, mailing list, ethics & guidelines for using robots; how they operate, feed search engines; ways to steer them away from(or to) your pages; database of robots, with descriptions & contacts; technical aspects of designing, building, & operating Web robots from the archived mailing list; articles & papers

Web search platforms                                                                                                                    25 December 2011
Apache Solr open source enterprise search platform from Apache Lucene project features include powerful fulltext search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, & rich document(eg Word, PDF) handling, distributed search & index replication; highly scalable, written in Java & runs as a standalone fulltext search server within a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat, Overview;

Website analytics                                                                                                                                22 January 2012
7 alternatives to Google Analytics: Clicky offers click-stream data, visitor level information that Google doesn’t share through analytics & is free for up to 3000 daily page views with paid packages starting at under US$5/month; Mixpanel's free package tracks up to 25000 data points & up to 200000 if you give them a footer link; FoxMetrics offers a free package for up to 25000 events & premium packages from under US$10/month; Open Web Analytics self-hosted, open source alternative to Google Analytics covers their key features & adds tracking of mouse movements & visual heatmaps to feature set for those interested in usability; Kissmetrics allows easy visualisation of user life-cycle & drilling down to see behaviour of individual visitors on site & change over time, analyse conversion funnels in real time & produce clear visualisations of your site’s ability to convert visitors to your goals, US$30/month starting subscription; Log file analysis programs are faster,  analysing data that your server is already collecting(no overhead)  & offers data security because you are not generating additional data, & not sharing that data with a third party; Website Tracking Tools such as eXTReMe Tracking, Sitemeter, GoStats or Statcounter; 

Website design tools                                                                                                                        20 February 2010
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library for UX/IxD covers broadest spectrum of patterns involving social media & rich interactions (eg. where interfaces are dimmed to allow eyes to focus on important stuff); Peter Morvilles Search Patterns library ofn Filckr; Endeca's YAPL(Yet another pattern library); Factory Joe's listing of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces & design flows; Welie.com's Interaction Design Pattern Library lists very simple to very complex interactions with good examples of where the pattern has been used well; Design patterns for mobile faceted search: Part I; Part II;

Website guidelines                                                                                                                         24 June 2009
Website Criteria™ researches & develops best practice criteria & guidelines for managing the entire life cycle of websites & intranets;

Website Writing Guide                                                                                                                  24 June 2009

WebWasher                                                                                                                                25 March 2002
German electronics giant Siemens free filter program for PC & Mac versions of Netscape Navigator & Microsoft IE; does *NOT* work with AOL's built-in browser (but; connect to AOL, minimize AOL, then launch a WebWasher-enabled version of Netscape Navigator or IE);  automatically blocks unwanted Web content like banner ads & pop-up windows.

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

What’s the difference between Viruses, Trojans, Worms & other Malware?                                    11 June 2010

Whirlpool(Australian Broadband User Community)                                                                         19 May 2003
non-commercial, non-profit, independent community web site keeping the Australian public informed on broadband internet access; online since 1998; Know yout ISP - Bigpond, Optusnet, Internode, iinet, Netspace, Westnet, TPG, aaNet, Exetel, Adam, AAPT forums

Whizle: A Simple Guide & Tutorial Making Tool                                                                            9 September 2008

WhoIs search(Network Solutions)                                                                                                    21 March 2010
Public WHOIS Database Listing: If you're comfortable with having your information available to the public — & don't want the extra fee associated with private domain registration — Network Solutions will submit a public listing to the WHOIS database including your name, address, phone number, email address & domain name expiration date, host name & IP address;

Widget Platforms                                                                                                                           7 June 2007
directories of widgets help you distribute, track & monitor your widget should you choose to build one; ClearSpring(Fox Interactive) & review, WidgetBox; Slide - 1m Flash widgets added/day; slideshow & media widgets for major social network platforms (MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged & Blogger); Yahoo! Widgets platform; Opera software developers kit (SDK) for widgets run on the company's mobile browser, Opera Mini excluded, the desktop version of Opera, the Nintendo Wii & devices that run Opera 9.5

Widgets                                                                                                                                        4 March 2007
Making Widgets; Universality of web widget; Widgipedia: Widgets Supersite - search & browse for web & desktop-based mini-applications for different platforms; browse gallery or tag cloud, smart search by keyword, user & development platform; Developers submit Widgets for download; Yahoo Widgets 4300+ mini- applications for receiving information on desktop without opening browser; weather trackers & news feeds; they use system resources, provide tracking data for advertisers & contribute to information overload; Yahoo Widgets 4; Web 2.0 Expo: All Things Widgets; World Wide Web of Widgets; first widget specification to standardize how widgets are scripted, digitally signed, secured, packaged & deployed device independent, follow W3C principles, interoperable as possible with existing market-leading user agents; Opera Widgets (Opera 9); Widgets for Content Distribution: A Shift in the Internet; SproutBuilder: Drag & Drop Widget Maker Flash authoring tool built on Adobe's Flex builds multi-page widgets with media, analytics;

WiFi Hotspot Finder Widget 2.0                                                                                             20 August 2005
locate free or paid hotspots near specific addresses, or within different states or cities worldwide; mobile Tiger user dashboard widget compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 finds public wifi networks within radio range; compatible with all operating systems;

Wifi Sidejacking                                                                                                                        30 November 2010
Firesheep Firefox add-on released in October 2010 demonstrates a hacking technique known as sidejacking, or wifi session hijacking; Protecting users from Firesheep & Sidejacking attacks with SSL...increasing awareness among users & attackers of inherent insecurity of unprotected HTTP connections;

Wi-Finally: wireless security that actually works                                                                       27 May 2005
14 April 2011: Get wired performance from your Wi-Fi network;

Wikipedia Bookshelf Project for rollout in late 2010                                                             12 November 2009
To create public outreach materials to recruit Wikipedia editors by increasing awareness & interest, fostering excitement, & providing training tools; materials developed in English, designed for translation, adaptation & use by volunteers, chapters & educational institutions

Wiki platforms  See also Wikis                                                                                           2 June 2009
Confluence 3.0 (Atlassian) enhances social networking side adding activity streams & Twitter-like status updates; Plugin Exchange allows users to download, rate, & review 3rd party plugins including popular GreenHopper plugin for JIRA; Wetpaint; PBWorks;  
Wikispaces; To compare wiki platforms by criteria including hosting features or system requirements, see WikiMatrix;

Winamp 5.3.2(media player)                                                                                                   16 December 2006
search for live concert footage & other forms of streaming media, with visuals; syncs with portable audio devices including various iPod models; compatible with computers running Windows 98, 2000, & XP;

Windows Live shares your Messenger contacts                                                                        22 July 2010

Windows Vista Activity Center(Paul Thurrott)                                                                          28 December 2005
Windows Vista/Longhorn-related content created for SuperSite for Windows & other publications, including WinInfo & Windows IT Pro Magazine; The Vista Disaster Back Story;

WinZip 14.5 version establishing complete Windows 7 compliance                                            8 May 2010
adds previews for certain file types; automatic wiping feature assures  temporary file created by WinZip will be "shredded" after unzipping completed; free for 45 days; Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 7; 26 October 2011: WinZip’s ZipSend transfers large files via email;

Wireless Routers                                                                                                                        9 Ju ne 2010

WireTap 1.0                                                                                                                            2 October 2004
record audio on your computer for later listening or processing; compatible with all systems running Mac OS X 10.2+

WisdomChange                                                                                                                       28 February 2004
free service monitors your bookmarks & emails changes to text of a web page but not to HTML tags or images; notifications sent to your mobile phone or pager; no limit on the number of bookmarks youset up; monitors pages not sites; 

Wolfram Alpha widgets                                                                                                                28 July 2010

Wordle generates a word cloud for a block of text See also Search Cloudlet & W. alternatives   20 October 2009

xHTML      Learn to speak “Internet”: your guide to xHTML                                                      31 May 2011

XML Advantage                                                                                                                      3 May 2008
22 Jul 2011: JSON vs XML - functional & feature friendly JSON(JavaScript Object Notation) web technology - XML/XMLHttpRequest world wide XML standard for data describes data format as well as transportation pattern;

XML Code editors                                                                                                                  20 March 2009

XML Converters                                                                                                                     19 February 2011
Advanced XML Converter utility to export XML to CSV, XML to HTML, XML to CSV, XML to DBF, XML to XLS & XML to SQL – all with much accuracy and in seconds (Review);

Microsoft XML Notepad 2007: a simple, smart editor for web code;

XMPP(Extensible Messaging & Presence Protocol) open XML communications technology     26 January 2008
XMPP called Jabber in IM - http protocol used by web pages is inefficient because it requires user machine to poll server periodically for new information; Gmail checks for new emails every 2 minutes; your RSS reader pings all of your feeds; XMPP lets one party signal to any XMPP server availability to receive for new information. When another party sends new content through the XMPP server, the message is passed on immediately & automatically to all recipients available; pro & con;

Yahoo! Pipes interactive feed aggregator & integrator                                                              15 February 2007
A Pipe is a collection of data sources to apply operators, such as filtering, merging, & sorting; 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 a series of filters into "pipes" (Unix operating system terminology for the ability to connect sources of data to filters & utilities; a way of constructing ad-hoc workflows composed of inputs, filters, manipulation tools); more control than web widgets but you need to be able to look at a URL line & parse out parameters (e.g. use Pipes' "URL builder" module to construct input to a site's query function), understand variables & loops; reviews; Introduction; Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes creations list; Start Data Plumbing with Yahoo Pipes tutorial for building a specialized feed from a variety of sources; Use Yahoo Pipes to grab TV show feeds; Yahoo! Pipes: relevant information on tap: mash up information from disparate sources; Pipes introductory video; browse or search available Pipes;  

Your PC: Inside and Out. Part 1; Part 2                                                                             12 January 2011

YouTube to MP3 Converter                                                                                                    13 January 2010

ZD Soft Screen Recorder 1.5                                                                                                   8 July 2006
record computer activities to a video file; create teaching videos, animated tutorials, or screen demonstrations; Windows 2000 & XP;

Zemanta 1.2 accelerating on-line content production, all operating systems                               14 February 2009
point & click to add tags, URL links, photos, related articles to each post; demonstration video of features; recognizes contextual content & combs the web for relevant images, smart links, keywords & text; plugin for platforms & browsers

Zitgist sandbox                                                                                                                      26 December 2009
provider of Linked Data products & services  bridging semantic Web to practical applications, combining academic research, open source software, complete standards compliance, & high-performance, scalable software; develops & deploys Web applications & data interlinking services to facilitate creation, aggregation, conversion, publication, & exchange of structured data;  portal entry to services & products: UMBEL(Upper-level Mapping & Binding Exchange Layer) Web services lightweight reference structure for placing Web content & data in context with other data; comprises 20000 subject concepts & their relationships with one another, with external vocabularies & named entities; Ping the Semantic Web repository for RDF(Resource Description Framework) documents; zLinks plug-in client-side service to turbocharge links; DataViewer manages information overload speedily using a diversity of presentation templates appropriate to  type of data(entity) under display(eg people, places, things, organizations, events); Query Builder enables RDF triples to be selected & mixed-&-matched solely through the user interface via dropdown lists;

zLinks(Zitgist sandbox) interlinked data service                                                                         26 December 2009
plug-in client-side service to turbocharge links embedded in a blog post or its comments, or from within a content management system(CMS), gain power to link to & display additional related data & information;

Zone-H for internet security matters & news items about geopolitics & digital warfare              21 June 2007
cybercrime archive collected online from public sources or directly notified

Zoomable image viewer See Seadragon

Zotero reference manager program                                                                                        6 October 2007
Firefox 2.0 extension; collect, manage, cite research sources; capture citations  from web pages, store PDF files, export; capture, save and annotate with a single click & saves to local directory;