I've spent the past few days exploring food website BooRah, which I can only describe as a localized restaurant information mecca. BooRah's Brian Warren and Nagaraju Bandaru graciously offered me a guided tour, which I hungrily accepted. The conversation was both informative and professional, and I was left with the impression that BooRah is not only a capable product, but that it is in capable hands as well.
URL: BooRah Makes You the Restaurant Guru.
A movement to build support for basic reform in how the United States government functions. Using the sites tools, both candidates and citizens can pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in Washington. The community will link candidates committed to a reform with volunteers and contributors who support it. URL: Change Congress.
A Mac OS application that finds, downloads, and organizes your personal library of public domain books. You can search, filter, and get automatic updates from over 20,000 books. Read on screen or export to PDF. URL: Voluminous.
A fun service where you can watch live tweets from Twitter on a virtual 3D globe of the earth. You can send your own tweet and watch it come in from the site. There's also a downloadable screensaver for Windows XP, OS X coming soon. [beta 1.0]
URL: TwittEarth.
Offers Rails developers a way to get their apps off the ground faster. The first offering from Rails Kits is the SaaS Rails Kit, which provides a Rails application with recurring billing and account management features, so developers can quickly build membership-based web services. URL: Rails Kits.
An online donation site that combines social networking with grassroots philanthropy. Users start and give to causes which are important to them. It's free to join and free to start getting involved. URL: Giveo.
A new blog for tips and tricks as well as cool software for your Mac and Leopard. Done by Apple Product Professional Certified personnel. This guide will make you love your Mac even more. URL: AppleDoes.
Lovd is an open source social networking solution that has everything you need to start your community. URL: Lovd By Less.
Rather than using several web 2.0 services to manage your business, WORKetc wrapped all the core small business systems into the single customized intranet. Includes integrated RSS feeds linked directly to projects, billing, customer support, help desk software, calendars, business-wide search, lead management, sales pipeline and document storage. URL: WORKetc.
A push-2-vidmail button that can be added anywhere that supports HTML. When reading your email, viewing your blog or your online classified, visitors can click on the button and record a video/audio message that gets delivered to your email address. URL: Walabok.
"Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by TechWeb and O'Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies."
A question and answer mashup using Twitter and Mosio. Ask any question using Twitter and have it answered by real people like yourself. URL: Twitter Answers.
An enterprise collaboration software built from the ground up for teams, companies, and communities looking for an easy and productive way to work with each other without time or location limitations. Free 30 day trail and a live demo. URL: Clearspace.
A neat online tool that makes scheduling appointments and meetings quick and simple. With its patent-pending technology Jiffle allows you to selectively share your Outlook calendar with your contacts and eliminate the time-consuming back-and-forth process required to set up meetings with your colleagues and clients. URL: Jiffle.
A new service that allows you to track the top search results for keywords of your choice. In addition to being able to view the top results for your search term or
phrase, your report also shows the ranks for today and compares this number to data from the previous day, week or month. URL: Search Rascal.
For readers and writers of fiction to come together and create amazing new stories via collaborative writing. Anyone can add a new chapter after any other chapter, even if an existing chapter already has more than one follow-up chapter. This creates stories with many branches. Readers are encouraged to rate each chapter so that the strongest branches, linked together, create the absolute most entertaining fiction possible. URL: StoryMash.
Emily Chang is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder and principal of ideacodes.com, a web design consultancy in San Francisco. Emily writes about strategic design and web at her professional blog emilychang.com and is the creator of eHub, a popular resource list that focuses on next generation web applications. She also has an artblog at artcodes.com [This is Emily Chang's experimental SuprGlu page, pulling in feeds from her various sites and web activity.]
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