A List of some nice free Web 2.0 stuff

Whoever knew you could do so much on the Web for free?

Calendars and Time Management:

CalendarHub: Good online calendar program that can send reminders to your email or cell phone. Allows dragging and has “todos” included (stuff you need “to do” in preparation for a scheduled event).

HipCal: This calendar is cool because you can subscribe, for example, to “US holidays” if you live in the US. Also has group sharing, alerts to your cell phone, and an Outlook-style interface, including tasks.

Google Calendar: You know, Google does everything else; why not a calendar? Use your Google Account/GMail login or create a new one.

Social Networking Resources:

Pownce (invite only): The new instant chat/file sharing service that can run without using a browser. Kind of like a bigger, better, more convenient AIM.

SwapASkill: Help others with your skills in exchange for the use of their skills to help you.

Thinkature: Don’t just chat—Communicate concepts visually with photos and drawing in real time to other users. Voice chat also available.

Gliffy: Site made for drawing organization and flow charts online for sharing with other users.

BlinkLife: A “social email” service for personal use. Kind of like regular email combined with Facebook. Offers unlimited storage space, guarantees no spam, allows “unsending” sent emails.

Meebo: Use more than one chat service? Login to them all at once.

Smarter Information Gathering:

MetaGlossary: A word-definition search engine that both crawls the Web for definitions and uses human input to refine results.

InstaCalc: Perform all kinds of different calculations instantly, including conversions and financial analyses.

Staying Organized:

Stikkit: Wonderful little virtual post-it note app with some nice intuitive functions. Also post stikkits to other users’ virtual desktops quickly and easily.

PageFlakes: What a home page should be. Get your local and international news, email, RSS feeds, even search portals for specific sites like MySpace or Yahoo all in one place. Highly customizable.

Sending huge files to other people:

Pando: Nice file transfer application. Send an email that activates transfer of large files or folders full of files that you specify, or even make them available for download on your website.

MailBigFile: Send files up to 100 MB by email for free. Quick and easy, no registration required.

YouSendIt: Another free file-sending service. You can password-protect the file.

DropSend: Send up to 1 gigabyte. Also store up to 250 MB of data online for free.

This page has even more places you can go to send huge stuff.

Email and privacy:

BugMeNot: Set up a dummy email to give out when a site asks you for your info so you don’t have to deal with junk mail in the future.

GuerrillaMail: Same thing—except when you create a dummy account here, it’s gone after 15 minutes. Pretty private!

DodgeIt: Same concept, but a bit more permanent. You can keep track of your dummy account using an RSS subscription (more on that can be found here - opens in new window).

DeadFake: Ok, one more of these. This one allows you to create a fake email address, but it must be from a real domain name. If you want to be convincing, or just play a trick on somebody, this is for you.

Tor: Use the Web securely through multiple IP addresses. Better than a proxy server, because the packet path is changed and reencrypted with every request, foiling efforts to monitor you.

Proxify: Are you blocked from seeing certain sites? Just go here and access your site through a proxy.

I know there are probably thousands more services out there! Comments are of course welcome (and by the way—this is a dofollow site, just try not to be frivolous!)

July 27th, 2007 Posted by Michaell at 11:07am | The Web | no comments