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Web 2.0 tools for webpage widgets and resources
Web 2.0 tools and applications to help with webpage widgets and resources. For a list of new applications not included in this page, check out my Web 2.0 weblog for miscellaneous webpage applications, online polls, screenshots, url shorteners, webpage watchers and widgets and gadgets.
Webpages - Miscellaneous tools
BackupUrl Create a cached copy of any url!. This creates instant cached copies of web pages. This is handy if you require the content of a web page to stay the same while you share the link we provide.
Badged This resource lets you add your favorite social networking badges to your blog or web site. Simply create your badges and put the line of code where you want them to appear.
Butns for multiple choices.This enables you to add more destinations to each hyperlink on your website, allowing your users to choose exactly where to go to get more information. Choose various options with each link. Clever idea!
eye ooo. This is a slightly strange resource, and I've not seen anything quite like it before. Simply whack in two or three URLs and view all the pages on the screen at the same time in split pane. You do have to scroll though - they're full size, not sized smaller. Bit of a shame that you can't save the URL to share with other people, but if you want to do some quick comparisions between sites/pages this might be worth a look.
Favigen is a Favicon Generator. The little images you get in the top left hand corner of the browser address bar. Been around for years, but quite fun. This creates them for you quickly and easily.
hooeey webprint Save Your Web History In A Browsing Library. Hooeey goes beyond links. It builds a personal library of browsed web pages on the user's computer automatically. Both text and screenshots are captured in the user's web library. Every page you visit is stored in realtime as a screenshot and as searchable full text archived on your own computer. You can store, tag, search and share webpages that you have visited. hooeey webprint also has the ability to store the user's web library on a number of different storage services such as Google Docs, Zoho, Amazon S3 and of course, on hooeey webprint's own cloud.
Instacomment is a service allowing website owners to add an instant comment system to their pages. Use it wherever you think comments would come in handy.
Link Extractor Webmaster Toolkit. This is just brilliant. Give it a URL and it goes away and collects all the URLs and displays them for you to do a cut and paste.
Printfriendly Save your webpage as a PDF with Printfriendly. Put in a URL and it'll churn around for a while and produce a version that's print friendly, or a PDF and which you can tweet/email around the place. I've been trying it for ages, and it doesn't seem to want to play for me, but you may have better luck.
PrintWhatYouLike is a free web page editor that gives you control of how web pages look when printed.
singlePAGERS You. Online. Elegantly!.From the site:"designed with a dash of simplicity, a pinch of minimalism, and a healthy helping of elegance, singlePAGERS are WordPress-powered one-page microsites that help you stay socially visible on the internet!"
Skysa - Free Website Footer Bar, Chat Room, Social App Bar. This looks rather fun. Add in a chat box, search box, twitter feed, poll, announcements, share option and more directly onto a page on your site or blog with a simple piece of code.
Smart Bookmarks Firefox Add-ons. This is nice. It allows you to get rid of all of the text for links, and just keep the favicon instead. As a result you can get up to 50 links on the bookmark line rather than the 14 or so you can with use of words as well.
Texty: The Simplest CMS. It allows you to create some text and then it gives you a bunch of code that you can put where you want. If you then want to go back and change the text, simply change it at Texty and this gets reflected in all the places you've copied the code to.
WebWait - Benchmark Your Website. This is great - whack in a URL and this'll tell you how long the page takes to load. Great for web designers.
WebMynd. This is a resource that allows you to see your entire history - every page you visit. It's a Firefox add on.
Webpage watching services
Interclue makes your browsing smarter, faster, more informative. Very much like the SNAP preview as far as I can tell, though you have to d/l software to make it work
PageTiki. Get updates by email or RSS. Free
WatchThatPage - Monitor web pages extract new information. Free, easy, with various options.
Webpage URL shortening services
90 URL shortening services. If you don't find what you want below, try this larger listing.
bit.ly, a simple url shortener. It does exactly what you'd expect.
BudURL. This resource allows you to tiny URLs as other services do, but you can also track them with lots of really good data. Free plans and paid.
Crum.bs Shorten your url's. OK, let's start with http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10463227.stm and shorten it with bit.ly to http://bit.ly/atB0r8 Ignoring the http bit, we have a 13 character URL. Shorten the same link with Crum.bs and we have http://crum.bs/l/av which is 12 characters. So yes, shorter! You can also use a custom extension, such as crum.bs/yourname. You can even password protect your link and limit the amount of clicks to your crum.bs link, though it's not entirely clear to me why you'd want to do that, but still.
DigBig - Long URLs shortened. Run by William Hann from FreePint
doiop Allows you to choose the extension for the shortened URL. Simple, free, easy
dwarfURL - Make your long URL's a lot smaller with dwarfURL's short URL service!. With this resource you can see how many clicks your shorter URL has had.
fur.ly - shorten multiple urls into one. Nice and neat - pop in as many URLs as you want and get one short one, and when you visit, you get a little location bar at the top of the screen to move you through.
lnk.ly - Free URL shortener.. Also comes with tracking.
is.gd URL Shortener. Does what it says on the tin.
KnowURL: Extract URL From Shortened URL. For the paranoid out there. Whack in the shortened URL (most formats supported) and this resource will tell you where it goes. Useful if you want to check what may be a dodgy link. Rather negates the point of shortening but I can see the value of it.
Krunchd - Krunch Multiple URLs into One Short URL. This is looking interesting, and the twist is in the title. If you have a collection of them, you can add them to a list.
LinkBee is the medium to archive and bookmark all your favourite links across the web and earn money doing so.
MultiURL Your one stop resource for link sharing. MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website. It makes the process of sharing multiple links at once so much easier, quicker and safer. Why would you want to use it? If you've got lots of links, and little space - in an article, end of a chapter, in a slide for example. Or if you want to send a list of links to someone to get them to check them quickly, without having to cut and paste one after another. You can edit the list and add or delete links to update and amend lists.
NSFW is a 'not safe for work' URL shortener. Pop in the URL you want shortened, or really in this instance made safer and it'll pop out a NSFW address.
Qurl Making long urls shorter!. Usual stuff, but this one allows you to track traffic of the URL and offers the chance to host pictures.
Retweet - Shorten your URL. It's a straightforward resource. Whack in a URL to Retweet and it'll shorten it for you, so that you can retweet it easily. Can't really think of much else to say about it to be honest.
Saf.li Share links. This checks the link to make sure that it's safe, without malware or phishing attempts at 'the other end' as it were.
Shortio - Make My Long URL Short. Remember when there was just TinyURL?
TinyURL. One of the first services of this type. Simple, free, easy
thinfi Password protect a short URL. That's pretty much what it does.
Urloid. Turn a long URL into a short one with keywords and phish protected. Does the world need another of these I wonder?
URLS.vg Enter a long url and let us make it short. Yup, it does that. Basic service, no options for choosing specific names, previews etc.
URL X-ray Find out where shortened URLs lead to without clicking. "URL X-ray tries to give the user an idea as to where shortened URLs lead to. We are trying to help you avoid NSFW material."
Webpage widgets and gadgets
Maps
Donkeymagic Make a map to go on your website.
Embedded Google Maps This is a very nice 'how to' guide on embedding Google maps into a weblog or onto a website. Simple and straightforward.
Frappr Create a map for your group and share photographs
Mapbuilder Both Google and Yahoo maps.
NoSquint: Firefox Extension. Having a hard time reading on the web? Is that website with the ridiculously small font and hot-pink-on-slightly-darker-hot-pink text raising your blood pressure? NoSquint can: Override the default text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels for all websites Enforce your own foreground and background colors Remember your zoom levels and color settings per site, automatically applying them when you return.
Pin in the map This is a free service which lets you easily share maps of locations with your friends via email or your website. Simply click on the map to mark a spot, enter a bit of text if you want, and you get an easy link to the map to share.
RadarURL - Monitor Online Visitors. Add the code to your site, and watch real time who your visitors are, where they're from and so on. Looks nice and easy.
Skysa Free Website Footer Bar, Chat Room, Social App Bar. This looks rather fun. Add in a chat box, search box, twitter feed, poll, announcements, share option and more directly onto a page on your site or blog with a simple piece of code.
Social Follow Create a Follow Me Button. Simple idea - create a nice little button that you can put onto your website or blog to draw all your profiles together to make it easier for people to follow. Nice and neat.
Sticky Map. Do fun things with a map. Let users add stuff.
Yourgmap Use Google maps to create your own list of locations
Polls
BlogPolling Voting System This is a nifty little utility, that allows you to put polls on your website. No CGI scripting, no programming. Add some javascript and you're done.
Free polls for your blogs, websites, MySpace, hi5 and Facebook accounts with PollDaddy
Pollmo Polls The simplest polls on the web. Type in your question, answers and cut and paste the code to your website or weblog. Doesn't get much simpler than that.
ProProfs Polls Web Polls Maker, Create Poll Software. It makes polls for you. What else is there to say?
Quimble - Polls done right. Create a poll, ask your friends, put it online.
Urtak lets you make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions. With Urtak you can: Make unlimited free polls. Embed polls everywhere. Analyze results in real time.
Vizu: Web Polls Ask questions, see the answers.
Vorbeo Get a free poll for your website. To get started, simply type in a poll question and up to 20 possible answers. They do the rest.
Web Polls Maker, Create Poll Software. It makes polls for you. What else is there to say?
Screenshots
Awesome Screenshot Capture and Annotate Developer :: Add-ons for Firefox. Very nice. No restart needed. Crop part of the page, outline, arrow, line, free draw, text and blur. When you've done, you can save online temporarily or to Diigo, or save locally as a file. This has just taken over as my favourite screenshot program.
Freesoft80 This software is an excellent solution for users who need to take screen captures at designed intervals. Screenshots are a low disk space alternative to video recording. You can automatically capture and save screeshots at specific intervals. It's useful if you don't want to go down the route of setting up a screencapture video package, but want a few shorts to illustrate something.
Screenpresso. Download this product. Capture part of a screen or stitch the whole thing together. Add drop shadows, rounded corners, reflections. Can share shots via Twitter, Facebook etc.
ScrnShots: Share your inspiration. From the website: it is the best way to take and share screenshots of web and screen based design.
Skitch is another of the screenshot capture programs. Capture part of a page, manipulate, store, blog it.
Super Screenshot! Give it a URL and it'll grab a screenshot of the entire page, top of the page and display it in various sizes.
Web 2.0 tools and applications to help with webpage widgets and resources. For a list of new applications not included in this page, check out my Web 2.0 weblog for miscellaneous webpage applications, online polls, screenshots, url shorteners, webpage watchers and widgets and gadgets.
Webpages - Miscellaneous tools
BackupUrl Create a cached copy of any url!. This creates instant cached copies of web pages. This is handy if you require the content of a web page to stay the same while you share the link we provide.
Badged This resource lets you add your favorite social networking badges to your blog or web site. Simply create your badges and put the line of code where you want them to appear.
Butns for multiple choices.This enables you to add more destinations to each hyperlink on your website, allowing your users to choose exactly where to go to get more information. Choose various options with each link. Clever idea!
eye ooo. This is a slightly strange resource, and I've not seen anything quite like it before. Simply whack in two or three URLs and view all the pages on the screen at the same time in split pane. You do have to scroll though - they're full size, not sized smaller. Bit of a shame that you can't save the URL to share with other people, but if you want to do some quick comparisions between sites/pages this might be worth a look.
Favigen is a Favicon Generator. The little images you get in the top left hand corner of the browser address bar. Been around for years, but quite fun. This creates them for you quickly and easily.
hooeey webprint Save Your Web History In A Browsing Library. Hooeey goes beyond links. It builds a personal library of browsed web pages on the user's computer automatically. Both text and screenshots are captured in the user's web library. Every page you visit is stored in realtime as a screenshot and as searchable full text archived on your own computer. You can store, tag, search and share webpages that you have visited. hooeey webprint also has the ability to store the user's web library on a number of different storage services such as Google Docs, Zoho, Amazon S3 and of course, on hooeey webprint's own cloud.
Instacomment is a service allowing website owners to add an instant comment system to their pages. Use it wherever you think comments would come in handy.
Link Extractor Webmaster Toolkit. This is just brilliant. Give it a URL and it goes away and collects all the URLs and displays them for you to do a cut and paste.
Printfriendly Save your webpage as a PDF with Printfriendly. Put in a URL and it'll churn around for a while and produce a version that's print friendly, or a PDF and which you can tweet/email around the place. I've been trying it for ages, and it doesn't seem to want to play for me, but you may have better luck.
PrintWhatYouLike is a free web page editor that gives you control of how web pages look when printed.
singlePAGERS You. Online. Elegantly!.From the site:"designed with a dash of simplicity, a pinch of minimalism, and a healthy helping of elegance, singlePAGERS are WordPress-powered one-page microsites that help you stay socially visible on the internet!"
Skysa - Free Website Footer Bar, Chat Room, Social App Bar. This looks rather fun. Add in a chat box, search box, twitter feed, poll, announcements, share option and more directly onto a page on your site or blog with a simple piece of code.
Smart Bookmarks Firefox Add-ons. This is nice. It allows you to get rid of all of the text for links, and just keep the favicon instead. As a result you can get up to 50 links on the bookmark line rather than the 14 or so you can with use of words as well.
Texty: The Simplest CMS. It allows you to create some text and then it gives you a bunch of code that you can put where you want. If you then want to go back and change the text, simply change it at Texty and this gets reflected in all the places you've copied the code to.
WebWait - Benchmark Your Website. This is great - whack in a URL and this'll tell you how long the page takes to load. Great for web designers.
WebMynd. This is a resource that allows you to see your entire history - every page you visit. It's a Firefox add on.
Webpage watching services
Interclue makes your browsing smarter, faster, more informative. Very much like the SNAP preview as far as I can tell, though you have to d/l software to make it work
PageTiki. Get updates by email or RSS. Free
WatchThatPage - Monitor web pages extract new information. Free, easy, with various options.
Webpage URL shortening services
90 URL shortening services. If you don't find what you want below, try this larger listing.
bit.ly, a simple url shortener. It does exactly what you'd expect.
BudURL. This resource allows you to tiny URLs as other services do, but you can also track them with lots of really good data. Free plans and paid.
Crum.bs Shorten your url's. OK, let's start with http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10463227.stm and shorten it with bit.ly to http://bit.ly/atB0r8 Ignoring the http bit, we have a 13 character URL. Shorten the same link with Crum.bs and we have http://crum.bs/l/av which is 12 characters. So yes, shorter! You can also use a custom extension, such as crum.bs/yourname. You can even password protect your link and limit the amount of clicks to your crum.bs link, though it's not entirely clear to me why you'd want to do that, but still.
DigBig - Long URLs shortened. Run by William Hann from FreePint
doiop Allows you to choose the extension for the shortened URL. Simple, free, easy
dwarfURL - Make your long URL's a lot smaller with dwarfURL's short URL service!. With this resource you can see how many clicks your shorter URL has had.
fur.ly - shorten multiple urls into one. Nice and neat - pop in as many URLs as you want and get one short one, and when you visit, you get a little location bar at the top of the screen to move you through.
lnk.ly - Free URL shortener.. Also comes with tracking.
is.gd URL Shortener. Does what it says on the tin.
KnowURL: Extract URL From Shortened URL. For the paranoid out there. Whack in the shortened URL (most formats supported) and this resource will tell you where it goes. Useful if you want to check what may be a dodgy link. Rather negates the point of shortening but I can see the value of it.
Krunchd - Krunch Multiple URLs into One Short URL. This is looking interesting, and the twist is in the title. If you have a collection of them, you can add them to a list.
LinkBee is the medium to archive and bookmark all your favourite links across the web and earn money doing so.
MultiURL Your one stop resource for link sharing. MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website. It makes the process of sharing multiple links at once so much easier, quicker and safer. Why would you want to use it? If you've got lots of links, and little space - in an article, end of a chapter, in a slide for example. Or if you want to send a list of links to someone to get them to check them quickly, without having to cut and paste one after another. You can edit the list and add or delete links to update and amend lists.
NSFW is a 'not safe for work' URL shortener. Pop in the URL you want shortened, or really in this instance made safer and it'll pop out a NSFW address.
Qurl Making long urls shorter!. Usual stuff, but this one allows you to track traffic of the URL and offers the chance to host pictures.
Retweet - Shorten your URL. It's a straightforward resource. Whack in a URL to Retweet and it'll shorten it for you, so that you can retweet it easily. Can't really think of much else to say about it to be honest.
Saf.li Share links. This checks the link to make sure that it's safe, without malware or phishing attempts at 'the other end' as it were.
Shortio - Make My Long URL Short. Remember when there was just TinyURL?
TinyURL. One of the first services of this type. Simple, free, easy
thinfi Password protect a short URL. That's pretty much what it does.
Urloid. Turn a long URL into a short one with keywords and phish protected. Does the world need another of these I wonder?
URLS.vg Enter a long url and let us make it short. Yup, it does that. Basic service, no options for choosing specific names, previews etc.
URL X-ray Find out where shortened URLs lead to without clicking. "URL X-ray tries to give the user an idea as to where shortened URLs lead to. We are trying to help you avoid NSFW material."
Webpage widgets and gadgets
Maps
Donkeymagic Make a map to go on your website.
Embedded Google Maps This is a very nice 'how to' guide on embedding Google maps into a weblog or onto a website. Simple and straightforward.
Frappr Create a map for your group and share photographs
Mapbuilder Both Google and Yahoo maps.
NoSquint: Firefox Extension. Having a hard time reading on the web? Is that website with the ridiculously small font and hot-pink-on-slightly-darker-hot-pink text raising your blood pressure? NoSquint can: Override the default text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels for all websites Enforce your own foreground and background colors Remember your zoom levels and color settings per site, automatically applying them when you return.
Pin in the map This is a free service which lets you easily share maps of locations with your friends via email or your website. Simply click on the map to mark a spot, enter a bit of text if you want, and you get an easy link to the map to share.
RadarURL - Monitor Online Visitors. Add the code to your site, and watch real time who your visitors are, where they're from and so on. Looks nice and easy.
Skysa Free Website Footer Bar, Chat Room, Social App Bar. This looks rather fun. Add in a chat box, search box, twitter feed, poll, announcements, share option and more directly onto a page on your site or blog with a simple piece of code.
Social Follow Create a Follow Me Button. Simple idea - create a nice little button that you can put onto your website or blog to draw all your profiles together to make it easier for people to follow. Nice and neat.
Sticky Map. Do fun things with a map. Let users add stuff.
Yourgmap Use Google maps to create your own list of locations
Polls
BlogPolling Voting System This is a nifty little utility, that allows you to put polls on your website. No CGI scripting, no programming. Add some javascript and you're done.
Free polls for your blogs, websites, MySpace, hi5 and Facebook accounts with PollDaddy
Pollmo Polls The simplest polls on the web. Type in your question, answers and cut and paste the code to your website or weblog. Doesn't get much simpler than that.
ProProfs Polls Web Polls Maker, Create Poll Software. It makes polls for you. What else is there to say?
Quimble - Polls done right. Create a poll, ask your friends, put it online.
Urtak lets you make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions. With Urtak you can: Make unlimited free polls. Embed polls everywhere. Analyze results in real time.
Vizu: Web Polls Ask questions, see the answers.
Vorbeo Get a free poll for your website. To get started, simply type in a poll question and up to 20 possible answers. They do the rest.
Web Polls Maker, Create Poll Software. It makes polls for you. What else is there to say?
Screenshots
Awesome Screenshot Capture and Annotate Developer :: Add-ons for Firefox. Very nice. No restart needed. Crop part of the page, outline, arrow, line, free draw, text and blur. When you've done, you can save online temporarily or to Diigo, or save locally as a file. This has just taken over as my favourite screenshot program.
Freesoft80 This software is an excellent solution for users who need to take screen captures at designed intervals. Screenshots are a low disk space alternative to video recording. You can automatically capture and save screeshots at specific intervals. It's useful if you don't want to go down the route of setting up a screencapture video package, but want a few shorts to illustrate something.
Screenpresso. Download this product. Capture part of a screen or stitch the whole thing together. Add drop shadows, rounded corners, reflections. Can share shots via Twitter, Facebook etc.
ScrnShots: Share your inspiration. From the website: it is the best way to take and share screenshots of web and screen based design.
Skitch is another of the screenshot capture programs. Capture part of a page, manipulate, store, blog it.
Super Screenshot! Give it a URL and it'll grab a screenshot of the entire page, top of the page and display it in various sizes.
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