Voting! The election of the New 7 Wonders of the World

The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07.

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Analytics...

What is W3Counter?
W3Counter is a free web tracker for your website or blog. Just add a small snippet of code to your site for detailed analysis of your site traffic and a live view of what your visitors are doing right now. You'll learn what sites and searches bring you the most traffic. Easily see which pages are most popular, and which your visitors choose to leave from. Know the browsers, platforms and screen settings your visitors use, where they're from and what language they speak.

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Google Analytics New Version

For a smooth transition, They've listed some helpful resources and
notes below. Also, you will still be able to access your old
reporting interface for at least a month by clicking "Previous
Interface" below the "View Reports" link for any profile in your
account. Other than a few improvements detailed in the version
notes below, your data and configuration settings remain
unaffected by your choice of interface and your data continues to
be tracked in the same way as it was prior to this redesign.

*What is new?* In the new version, your reports have been
redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics,
and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you'll
notice:

- Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc
personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.

- Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all
the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can
email to others.

- Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select
date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.

- Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion
University tips are available from every report.

The new interface has everything the previous interface had and
more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate
related information and explore your data.

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Google's New Navigational Links: An Illustrated Guide

After months of testing, Google is rolling out new ways to navigate within its search results and between different Google properties. Here's an illustrated guide to the old and new.

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Free tool offers 'easy' coding

A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed.

Primarily aimed at children, Scratch does not require prior knowledge of complex computer languages.

Instead, it uses a simple graphical interface that allows programs to be assembled like building blocks.

The digital toolkit, developed in the US at MIT's Media Lab, allows people to blend images, sound and video.

"Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience," said Professor Mitchel Resnick, one of the researchers at the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT.

"We have developed Scratch as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible."

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Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'

Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said.

He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served.

He said sites peppered with personalisation tools were in danger of resembling the "glossy but useless" sites at the height of the dotcom boom.

Research into website use shows that sites were better off getting the basics right, said Mr Nielsen.

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Usability Makes the Web Click

"In an interview, Nielsen offered Fast Company some easy-to-implement ideas for improving Web design."
...from the interview...

What's wrong with Web design?

Too many Web designers substitute a marketing agenda for a focus on what customers want. Users want speed, utility, and credibility - not portals, banners, or even community. And speed is the overriding criterion: Minimalist design rules.

One phrase sums up the dominant mentality of the Web user: "I'm driving." People don't spend lots of time on any one page, because in order to feel that they're accomplishing something, they have to keep moving. The best kind of site shows users what each page is about and then quickly gets them to the next page.

Why don't more sites work that way?

Most developers fail to treat the Web as a new medium with new rules. The dominant metaphor is TV - think "channel," "show," and "eyeballs." But the Web is an interactive, one-to-one medium in which everyone can be a producer or a publisher.

It isn't like newspapers or magazines either. At IBM and at Sun, we studied how people read on the Web. What we discovered is - they don't! They scan. Only 16% of Web users actually read word by word. So, on any given topic, people should write about half as many words for the Web as they would for the printed page.

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2007 Web 2.0 Awards Announced May 9,2007

Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories
Rated, Ranked and Awarded

"Our team reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in each of 41 categories. From there, we assembled a team of 25 of the most knowledgeable, well-respected experts in the field to vote on the winners."

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Award Categories

• Blog Guides
  » technorati.com
  » bloglines.com
  » findory.com
  » feedster.com
  


• Bookmarking
  » ma.gnolia.com
  » furl.net
  » clipmarks.com
  » blummy.com
  


• Books
  » lulu.com
  » biblio.com
  » librarything.com
  » reader2.com
  » bluerectangle.com
  


• Business
  » squidoo.com
  » instantbull.com
  » shopify.com
  » web2.0stores.com
  


• City Guides & Reviews
  » yelp.com
  » judysbook.com
  » local.yahoo.com
  » local.google.com
  » local.live.com
  » menuism.com
  » citysearch.com
  


• Classifieds and Directories
  » craigslist.org
  » oodle.com
  » vflyer.com
  » go2web20.net
  » idealist.org
  


• Collaborative Writing and Word Processing
  » docs.google.com
  » writeboard.com
  » thinkfree.com
  » us.ajax13.com
  » celtx.com
  


• Communication
  » meebo.com
  » campfirenow.com
  » mailemotion.tv
  » imified.com
  


• Content Aggregation and Management
  » wufoo.com
  » projectstat.us
  » editgrid.com
  » numsum.com
  


• Digital Storage and Remote Access
  » omnidrive.com
  » esnips.com
  » totoexpress.com
  » fluxiom.com
  » safeme.co.uk
  


• Events
  » upcoming.yahoo.com
  » eventful.com
  » confabb.com
  » lovento.com
  » seatsnapper.com
  » beethere.net
  


• Feed Management
  » feedburner.com
  » attensa.com
  » blogbridge.com
  » rojo.com
  


• Fun Stuff
  » cocktailbuilder.com
  » onesentence.org
  » fuzzmail.org
  » fwditon.com
  


• Games
  » arcaplay.com
  » games2web.com
  » Guess-The-Google
  » felixgames.com
  » blufr.com
  

• Health


• Hosted Wikis


• Lists and Polls


• Mapping


• Marketing


• Mashups


• Mobile Technology


• Music


• Online Desktop


• Organization


• Philanthropy


• Photos and Digital Images


• Podcast Services

• Professional Networking


• Questions and Advice


• Real Estate


• Retail


• Search


• Social Networking


• Social News


• Social Tagging


• Start Pages


• Travel


• Video


• Visual Arts


• Web Development and Design


• Widgets

StartUp 2.0 ...

StartUp2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups (either created or willing to do so in the future) that work in the field of 2.0 technologies.

The technical committee and Internet users will vote for all sites and select 15 among them. These nominees will be officially presented in an event in Madrid on May, 10th. Each project's team will have 5 minutes to present its website.

Here is the list of the top 15 European Web 2.0 projects, which will be presented next Thursday in Madrid. The information below was provided to Read/WriteWeb by the organizers:

Panoramio.com (http://www.panoramio.com/): Photo-sharing of geolocated photos. Panoramio offers 2 Gb of free storage for photos. The site has 330.000 registered users and 1,1 million geolocated photos.

11870.com (http://11870.com/): "a real-life delicious" where you can remember and share with your friends all kind of places (from business to sculptures) around the world using comments, tags, photos and videos. Launched in feb 07, reached #1 in technorati.

Trivop (http://www.trivop.com/): Trivop is the first videoguide for the hotel industry. it's a mashup with video, map and comments from users (through tripadvisor). We are convinc that video give travellers the transperncy they need before booking as today just a few photos is not sufficient enough. We want to become the youtube of the hotel industry.

Tupalo (http://tupalo.com/): Tupalo is a social mapping network for local and independent culture, allowing members of elusive niche cultures to add, rate, review, search and tag their favorite local businesses in major cities around the world via PC or Mobile devices.

Personalised Information Environment (http://www.musorajanlo.hu/): A new internet application developed by a hungarian team can virtually learn what kind of tv shows and movies do the users like, and make recommendations for the following days accordingly. Musorajanlo.hu applies the latest technologies: machine-learning and data-mining, all executed on a grid.

hipoqih (http://hipoqih.com/): hipoqih.com is a system composed by a Web and plugin for mobile devices that allows to record alerts and URLs associated to any geopoint in the planet. These alerts can be seen automatically in terminals with the plugin when approaching that geopoint, so that the information arrives when you get to the place that interests you.

nvivo.es (http://www.nvivo.es/): Gig based social network. Its main objective is that you never loose that gig again. Follow your favourite bands and coolest venues of your city, met other fans and interact adding comments, tags, joining and attending gigs and get or ask for all the gig info you need. With Musicbrainz, last.fm, Google Maps and 11870.com mashups. Live music fans never got that easy.

soziety (http://www.soziety.com/): soZiety is a language-learning social network based on Skype. soZiety is a great, dead simple method people can use to have fun learning a language while meeting new people and making some bucks.

Properazzi - the property search engine (http://www.properazzi.com/): Properazzi is a crawler-based web 2.0 property search engine for all of Europe. We launched in March 2007, and currently list 1.8 million sale and rental properties in 45 European countries, in all European languages and currencies. We're backed by Mangrove Capital Partners (Skype, Quintura, Nimbuzz). We've got a highly international team and are based in Barcelona, Spain.

Menéame (http://www.meneame.net/): Meneame is the leading Digg-like website in Spanish. It helps anybody promote news from any source by creating new pages according to users's votes. It was launched in 2004 from Mallorca.

SlideBurner (http://www.slideburner.com/): SlideBurner allows you to share and discover easily slideshows/presentations (PowerPoint or OpenOffice files). Upload your files and they can quickly be viewed online in any web browser on any platform. You have full control on the security of your slideshows; you can select precisely the person who can access your data. You can also create groups around your fields of interest. Moreover, the site is multilingual; for the moment it is available in French and English.

Sclipo (http://sclipo.com/): Sclipo is a Social Skills-Network based upon user-generated videos: Users can share and promote their skills through video and connect with other users based upon skills they care about. Sclipo is a platform for any kind of skills, such as cooking, well-being, technology or sports. All content is 100% user-generated and evaluated. SCLIPO stands for: Skills + CLIP + yO (=I)

Anywr.com (http://www.anywr.com/): Anywr is a web and mobile system that offers simple, yet powerful services for managing contacts, calendars, events and communications virtually from anywhere: using browsers, mobile devices or any other of the over 750 million compatible devices available today.

5min (http://www.5min.com/): 5min is a place to find short video solutions for every practical question, and is also a place for people who want to share their knowledge. 5min's vision is simple: any solution can be visually explained in 5 minutes. Users of the 5min platform will benefit from a visual illustration of any solution through a Smart Player. Unlike all of the video sites on the net, 5min created a video player that is adjusted specifically to the instruction field.

QuestionForm (http://questionform.com/): questionform is a web application for creating, publishing and analysing online surveys and forms.

Newsvine New Design

A Much Smarter Front Page
What good is a news site that doesn't adapt to the way you use it? The new Newsvine front page puts you in control of everything. Want your original Newsvine content at the bottom and your New York Times stories at the top? No problem. Want twice as many headlines? Also not a problem. If you can drag and drop, you can design your own front page in a matter of seconds.

Local Headlines and Weather

Newsvine Live

The News in Pictures

External RSS Feeds: You can now add any news source in the world to your Newsvine front page with just a simple click on the big green "Add News Module" button. From the New York Times to the BBC to Techcrunch, it's all there just waiting to be added.

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