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Last month at PodCamp West, I ran into Doug Kaye of Gigavox Media who was about to demo a new version of their Levelator tool. Check this post to see what the tool is all about.
The new version is finally out. It features a new look and “Significant improvements in the levelation algorithms.”
If you’re a [...]

There’s a new tutorial playing over in the Learning Center. Learn how to use the Feed2JS tool to place RSS feed items on just about any web page.
[Tags]Social Media, RSS, Tutorial, Video, Tools, Open Source[/tags]

Intel is offering a suite of social media apps they are calling Suite Two. They are bundling a number of tools together including Movable Type, NewsGator and Socialtext.
According to the official website, “SuiteTwo is a rich set of interconnected services that combine to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing. SuiteTwo includes the most trusted platforms [...]

There’s a lot of talk about a new service called SpringWidgets that allows people to create and use widgets for the desktop and the web.
Widgets are mini-applications that can sometimes be shared on other websites, blogs, social networks, etc. SpringWidgets (like the previously mentioned Grazr) offers an RSS feed aggregator widget that also supports [...]

Drupal is moving forward with the first release candidate for their upcoming 5.0 release. Sound like there are some excellent new features to look forward to.
According to their blog post, “It comes with many new features, including a web-based install system, improved administration tools, and a shiny new theme!”
I’ve pointed out Drupal before because there’s [...]

There’s no doubt that some aspects of social media are moving very fast. New and updated tools, products and services are coming at us on a daily basis. So I should not have been surprised when I opened up Google Reader yesterday to find a completely new interface and a host of new features.
Google’s upgrade [...]

There’s probably no more fitting way to end the week of Open Source tools by highlighting the mack daddy of free blogging tools. I’m talking about WordPress of course.
Stand around a room full of bloggers and start talking about blogging tools. You’ll hear people mention Movable Type, Typepad, Typo and Blogger along with WordPress.
I’ve used (and still [...]

One of the biggest problems that organizations have is efficiency in collaboration. Just recently I talked to a colleague who was frustrated about the process of sharing large files via email. People sending him email would constantly get the dreaded ‘mailbox full’ notification.
Wikis offer an alternative approach to mailing documents back and forth. As many [...]

I’ve come to think of RSS as the grease for the social web. If that’s true then I think it’s fair to say that a tool called Feed2JS is the grease gun, easily allowing users to insert the grease where it needs to go.
Feed2JS is short for “Feed To Javascript”. The tool allows you to convert [...]

In preparing to write a post about another great social web tool I suddenly had a problem. I didn’t know what to call it. This tool is not easy to describe because it can help you to do so many different things on the web.
This tool can allow you to host one or many [...]