A new research project from Yahoo! – ZoneTag – is offering to allow two-click uploading of photos from cameraphones which are then automatically tagged on Flickr with geo-tags based on the nearest phone mast. Sadly, the prototype is only available in the US currently.
All posts by Jim Muttram
Bloginfluence
Steve Rubel on Bloginfluence, a site which aims massage your blog ego (or blego[!]) by aggregating all sorts of indications of just how important you are in the blogosphere.
Stylehive
Filter RSS with Feed Rinse
If you have been downloading RSS for a while chances are you are now awash with information. So Feed Rinse has come along with a solution – add some key words and they will filter your feeds and let you subscribe to a new feed with only those posts that relate to the key words. Had to happen, I suppose.
Update: if you want the human version of this, Kent Newsome has just taken all of Robert Scobles’ 800 or so feeds and reviewed them all to come up with his list of the ones he likes the best.
Blogging Basics
Touchstone
Touchstone is a new “attention management system” which uses a visual interface to tune RSS feeds to match what you are really interested in. At least, that’s the promise – the site is in “private Alpha” so you have to apply for an invitation to try it out.
Awards 2.0
Now it’s the Web 2.0 Awards. 300 websites in 38 categories – plus interviews with 21 founders.
eponym.com
A new free blogging platform called Eponym has launched. It is apparently very simple and straightforward to use.
Online Feed Readers
Techcrunch roadtests a crop of online feed readers.
All the digg-style applications
Useful list of all the Digg-style applications out there – Consensus Web Filters, as Kevin Kelly calls them.