From the makers of the extremely fun Comic Life for Macs (a Windows beta 2 has just been released – woot!), plasq have released an invite only beta (stupid Google and Gmail making that so popular…) of a new screenshot grabbing/sharing tool called Skitch. Screenshot grabbers are nothing new but Skitch’s built-in integration with sites like Flickr and blogs and the lovely plasticity of its (apparently) lossless stretch and drag and drop-ability make it pretty damn amazing.
Anyway, good to see that the CEO and a few of the team members are from Australia.
Friends4Days is a sweet little site where you get matched with someone and you can converse for four days and then decide whether you want to keep them as a friend (presumably it has to be mutual) and then you get another friend in your inbox. I’m imagining that for the most part if the other party isn’t there for dodgy reasons, you’ll probably hang on to them as friends. Hope the right people and not spammers and network marketers get attracted to it.
SixApart makers of MovableType and LiveJournal have just released Vox, a social media sharing network (yspace/youtube/delicious), their big selling point is that they let everyone plug in to them so no barring of youtube videos a la myspace.
You might like make a video of yourself to send your new friend or stick on Vox, but Premiere is too expensive. Well there’s a whole heap of online video editors popping up that will do simple editing and let you use some cool effects. Most notable has been JumpCut because they recently got bought by Yahoo. But if there was an award for cutest logo, it has to be Eyespot, esp the one for sharing. Love it!
This could be really cool: Ning – Create your own Social Websites! Ning gives you the platform and tools to create your own video, photo or group site which you can make public or private. You also get access to the source code which apparently is 100% customisable. It makes its money through ads and premium services (like $20/month to run your own ads which I think is a LITTLE steep). A pro for some and a con for others is that the web applications are hosted on their servers. I think it would be cooler if they did a Movable Type and sold licences to use it on your own server.
At some stage, when I get round to making up some productivity templates, I’ll need a place to store then as I don’t want huge hosting bills. Anyway I wanted something free, that allows free public downloads (that’s a paid extra at box.net … stupid! immediately they lose all that free publicity), that doesn’t delete your files after 30 days if they haven’t been accessed (eg savefile.com) and has a nice community. Good design would be just an added bonus. Well I found all that at eSnips: eSnips.com – Get 1GB free storage to upload and share files, photos and videos
I love the little birdy logo and the fact that the CEO is a woman. You set up folders which can be public or private, public folders have their own static (and short!) web address. You can link directly to a document or create cute little “widgets” buttons.
The fellow eSnippers all seem like a nice bunch, it’s not as daunting as the bigger players. Pigment is my favourite. He’s an English artist and here are some widgets linking to his paintings:
