Social File Sharing on Facebook

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Video Discussions and Presentations with VoiceThread

VoiceThread is an interesting multimedia presentation and Video application with some unique features. The presentation may include mostly all kind of media. The key feature of VoiceThread is the the interactivity of presentations. Visitors are able to add comments beside or within a presentation like it happens at some interactive video applications. The comments may become added by text, audio or video. With this feature VoiceThread is a great application for various purposes like collaboration, education or discussions. Related to video discussions VoiceThread may be compared with Seesmic.

The AppAppeal Directory of Webbased Applications

AppAppeal is another directory for webbased applications like the already mentioned Go2Web20.net and Simple Spark. AppAppeal is an edited directory that looks for up to date webbased applications. Issues they mention for their choice of apps are easy use and registration processes. By this one may expect a quality choice of apps at AppAppeal without risks to join.

Co Browsing with Plista

A new co browsing application has been launched. The service is called Plista. As the other covered co browsing applications the tool enables to share interesting sources and to leave comments at third party websites. And there are a couple of further things this application can do. Plista makes recommendations in several ways. There are suggestions and a menu to navigate as well as matching with other people and their choice of websites. The latter feature may be used to find like minded people. Furthermore there are intelligent recommendations based on the user behaviour and made available by the self learning application. This is a similar feature like the just introduced newsfeed applications do offer. Last but not least it is a social networking applications to share sources and information with others, known and newly matched friends. The application is free.

PostRank filters Newsfeeds for Buzz and Information

PostRank is newsfeed filter that enables to find the most popular and the most related information. The application automates two important tasks, looking for popular feeds and personalization to find related news. For both tasks there is a buzz filter to find the most engaging content at the socialsphere. PostRank is doing this by analysing social media sources like posts about an issue and resulting acitivities like bookmarking and commenting. The application may become used online as a webbased reader or with nearly every application, browsers or newsreader software. There is a video introduction available, a particular page for users and for developers.

Filtering information is a great way to manage possible information overload. Another way to organize information overload might be the use of self learning applications that filter and suggest resources automaticly like FeedHub or Feeds 2.0. Here you will find further newsfeed applications.

Vidize is a Video Talk Show Application

Vidize.com is an online application to host and record video talk shows online and to publish these show on blogs and websites. After joining the service the talk master is able to invite guests to join the show and record the contributions of all participants. Participation does happen by webcams. The whole show will be stored and can become embedded at blogs and websites.

Another but different talk show tool is TalkShoe. This applications works by phone calls and enables audio recordings.

A Chat Application with Visitor Visualization

eyebees is a cool chat tool that connects people on a website and visualizes visitors like the co browsing software of me.dium. Now, when the visitors are visualized they are able to click each other and to chat with each other. The eyebees software even shows at which page a visitor is browsing. By this they are able to talk about particular topics. To homepage owners and webmasters it is even a great tool to see where the buzz happens and to join a discussion. The installation happens by a simple integration of code.

Tangler is for Live Discussions at Websites

Tangler is another live application for websites. It is a hosted forum solution for live discussions, meetings and events. The application is customizable by templates or individual design and easy to integrate into websites. Even media can become posted and the status of a live forum can be public or private. Furthermore it has social networking features by user profiles and the ability to share discussions at other websites and blogs.

Tangler is already hosting over 10000 discussions. The forums can be explored by an own search engine.

Comment Tracking Services and Tools

Comment tracking and commenting tools are useful to keep in touch with own comments, to read others and to enrich the experience. Some comment tracking tools have even evolved to own social networks for discussions. This is an update to the earlier post about comment tracking tools.

co.mments is a tracking tool to to keep in touch with own posts and to be informed about new comments.

Bubble Comment is an application for adding video comments to a website. People may share their comments. If a publisher wants a website to be enabled for video comments, simply a free button needs to be installed.

commenZ is a comment community with an own toolbar. People may post comments to the community instead of posting them on a website. Comments of the community may become read by a toolbar while visiting a website. Arguments for this toolbar might be to avoid deletion of comments and closer discussions at the community. Toolbars often are a way for more serious information sharing, too.

CommentAnywhere is another browser plugin available for Firefox only actually and usable for information sharing. It allows to comment everywhere and share opinions with friends, groups and at social networks.

Disqus is a comment system for websites. The intention of Disqus is to enable discussions beyond a particular website, which might be a great tool for publishers to enrich the experience of visitors.

LineBuzz again is an unusual but interesting tool. It enables comments at every part of a text by marking a part of it.

A Live Web Application, Six Groups

Six Groups is another live and social networking application. Like the live blogging application Covert it Live it can easily become added to a weblog or website. Six Groups is a community application with social networking features. If added, a bar will appear at the top of a site with a link to view lifestreams of the community activity and member login. For social networking members may add people as friends and groups may become created. Furthermore there is a twitter integration and a syndication feature by widgets. Posts within Six Groups may happen by text, photo and video.