Ficlets remixes fiction in Web 2.0 style

Posted Mar 14th 2007 3:00PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Fun, Internet, Text, Web services, Social Software

Ficlets spills some Web 2.0-coolness into a cup of collaborative fiction. Users submit super-short fiction stories -- really short. No, like really, incredibly short. All the fiction you can squeeze into 1024 characters short. -- which are then available for others to build upon with "sequels" (or build up to with prequels). They even provide you with inspiration for your stories, in the form of photos, themes, suggested beginnings and endings, and of course other ficlets.

All the Ficlets are licensed under the Creative Commons, giving the content a solid foundation for everyone to play fair and share upon. It's fun, creative and mildly addictive if you're into writing.

[via Boing Boing]

Tags: collaboration, collaborative tools, CollaborativeTools, creative commons, CreativeCommons, ficlets, socila writing, SocilaWriting, writing

• Read
• Permalink
• Email this
• Share
• Comments [2]

Related Headlines

• The Kids Open Dictionary Builder: Do they define better than they punctuate? (13 days ago - 11 Comments)
• Can't Finish Your New Limerick? Try WriteRhyme! (28 days ago - 5 Comments)
• Thsrs: it's a thesaurus, but shorter (42 days ago - 4 Comments)
• Find a home for your unfinished songs on Rifflet (56 days ago - 0 Comments)

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1

3-14-2007 @ 10:00PM

Abhijeet said...

Awesome!

Reply

2

3-15-2007 @ 5:30AM

calum said...

I have been building a similar type of site,
you might want to check it out,
www.story-box.co.uk

Reply

Download Squad Features

View Posts By

Categories

Audio (853)

Beta (342)

Blogging (700)

Browsers (44)

Business (1373)

Design (822)

Developer (936)

E-mail (517)

Finance (128)

Fun (1766)

Games (558)

Internet (4863)

Kids (135)

Office (495)

OS Updates (580)

P2P (182)

Photo (471)

Podcasting (167)

Productivity (1330)

Search (265)

Security (547)

Social Software (1126)

Text (438)

Troubleshooting (52)

Utilities (1972)

Video (1028)

VoIP (140)

web 2.0 (785)

Web services (3368)

Companies

Adobe (187)

AOL (50)

Apache Foundation (1)

Apple (473)

Canonical (35)

Google (1311)

IBM (30)

Microsoft (1312)

Mozilla (470)

Novell (20)

OpenOffice.org (43)

PalmSource (11)

Red Hat (17)

Symantec (14)

Yahoo! (355)

License

Commercial (681)

Shareware (194)

Freeware (2027)

Open Source (920)

Misc

Podcasts (13)

Features (391)

Hardware (167)

News (1119)

Holiday Gift Guide (15)

Platforms

Windows (3666)

Windows Mobile (425)

BlackBerry (44)

Macintosh (2093)

iPhone (100)

Linux (1598)

Unix (78)

Palm (177)

Symbian (122)

Columns

Ask DLS (11)

Analysis (26)

Browser Tips (296)

DLS Podcast (5)

Googleholic (201)

How-Tos (99)

DLS Interviews (19)

Design Tips (14)

Mobile Minute (130)

Mods (68)

Time-Wasters (385)

Weekend Review (40)

Imaging Tips (32)

RESOURCES

• Send us news tips
• Contact Us
• Advertise
• Corrections?
• Problems?

RSS NEWSFEEDS

• 
• Feeds by category

Sponsored Links

Advertise with Download Squad

Most Commented On (60 days)

• Theft is Bad Karma: Stop Pirating Photoshop! (60)
• PA governor is about as tech literate as John McCain (18)
• Dogs hide bones, Firefox hides useful tricks (17)
• 10 Ways To Game Like It's 1989 - Epic Time Waster (11)
• FireNES Adds Tons-O-Nintendo Fun to Firefox - Time Waster (11)
• Mygazines - read magazines online for free until? (11)
• High royalty fees could cause Pandora to close its music box (10)
• Chandler wants to set you free from Outlook, takes 6 years to do it (10)
• How to permanently hide elements of any web page from Firefox (9)
• Two Quick Firefox Tab Tweak Addons (9)

Recent Comments

• Nathan on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?
• Nathan on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?
• Kamal on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?
• Lee Mathews on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?
• Marc Savoy on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?
• rushangshah on Microsoft finally gets into the keyboard app launcher biz with Speed Launch
• Dave Tigweld on Microsoft finally gets into the keyboard app launcher biz with Speed Launch
• Jaya on Theft is Bad Karma: Stop Pirating Photoshop!
• door0122 on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?
• semuta on Survey: 29% Bought Spam Email Products, But Who Cares?

Urlesque Headlines

• Roseanne Has Beef With Angelina, but Really Eats Oprah Alive
• Advice, Medium-Rare
• Art Garfunkel Reads Books
• Morning Reminder: Laurence Fishburne is a Serious Actor
• Url-y Riser: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

BloggingStocks Tech Coverage

• AAPL Apple Inc
• ADBE Adobe Systems
• AKAM Akamai Technologies
• AMZN Amazon
• CSCO Cisco Systems
• DELL Dell
• EBAY eBay
• GOOG Google
• INTC Intel
• INTU Intuit Inc
• JAVA Sun Microsystems
• MOT Motorola
• MSFT Microsoft
• NOK Nokia Corp
• ORCL Oracle Corp
• PALM Palm Inc
• RHT Red Hat Inc
• RIMM Research in Motion
• SYMC Symantec Corp
• TWX AOL Time Warner
• YHOO Yahoo!

More Tech Coverage

• Control Shift It's all about the experience
• Somewhat Frank Perspectives on tech as it fuses in everyday life
• Switched Gadgets, web news and commentary
• Urlesque Exposing bits of the web

All contents copyright © 2003-2008, Weblogs, Inc. All rights reserved

Download Squad is a member of the Weblogs, Inc. Network. Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Notify AOL