Technorati – State of the blogosphere April 2006

April 19, 2006 — Mark Wilson

This just in! 

… the blogosphere continues to grow at a quickening pace. Technorati currently tracks 35.3 Million weblogs, and the blogosphere we track continues to double about every 6 months, as the chart below shows…

Technorati April 2006

Check it out

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Great looking UI trick

April 19, 2006 — Mark Wilson

Take a look at the borders around the twistedpolygon page. Hold your mouse over it. Move your mouse. Click your mouse. Cool huh? Go Macromedia!

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More mashup madness – Flikr spelling

April 19, 2006 — Mark Wilson

From Spell with Flikr comes…

What is this? Spell with Flickr is a small program that lets you type in whatever you want, then goes to flickr and grabs pictures for each an every letter! It also allows you to change the images that you see, so you can find better images for your word or phrase!

Here is our product name reBlogger: 

RENOLA alphabet BLlOglowercaseGER

My name (Mark):

untitledARBarely legal

This is really fun, give it a try! 

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A “web 2.0″ slideshow. No, really.

April 19, 2006 — Mark Wilson

What if you want to visit all 1,400 web 2.0 sites – but you just can't be bothered with opening so many windows? Well then… Web 2 slides is for you. (No it's no April 1st, this is for real). Their quote:

A self running slide show of over 1,400 of the top web 2.0 applications – alphabetically sorted.

Just open this page and on the left at the top click "Start web 2 slides" and watch the parade of 1,400 websites as they display on the right hand side.

LMAO :D

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Get all the 2.0 lists in OPML!

April 19, 2006 — Mark Wilson

Do you want a list of all the links on a page in OPML so you can pop it into your fav readinglist reader?

Using this URL http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/pagelinks2opml.php?url=http://reblogger.wordpress.com
you can get exactly that. Remember to insert your own HTML page after the querystring. It will display inOPML in your browser like this:

<opml>
<head>
<title>Links from http://reblogger.wordpress.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<outline text="Semantic thoughts" type="link" url="http://reblogger.wordpress.com"/>
<outline text="Coding reBlogger" type="link" url="http://codingreblogger.wordpress.com"/>

and so on.

Just in case you want to, you can validate all the URLs as well by using this Web 2.0 Validator that spiders the site and checks it for 2.0 compatibility. Our upcoming reBlogger Football World Cup website clearly needs extensive work done on it, it only scores 7 our of 49. Sigh.

So you've got a HTML links to OPML converter, now all you need is a list of Web 2.0 links and there are tons of those. So I'll provide a list of the lists and then you can extract all the links and OPML-ize them using the link above.

Web20list.com

The following links are all from Dion Hinchcliffe

Web 2.0 Sites Enormous list! Donate to charity and get the full list as an Excel spreadsheet

Everything 2.0 Holy cow. What else can I say?

Web 2.0 Navigation Menus Nice, tight focus.

Sometimes the first is still the best. Yuri's pages are placed in themed categories:

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