Filed under: Web services, web 2.0
Weekend Web 2.0 roundup for December 30th
WooMe
It was only a matter of time before speed dating entered the Web2 online space. This service backed by the founder of Skype takes the crazy world of speed dating and wraps it up online in a way to meet new users, live. Hook up a mic and web cam and join "sessions" that are based on topics that you enjoy.
DecentURL
Similar to the famous tinyurl, and snipurl, DecentURL makes the standard ugly number letter shortened URL's a little prettier. Paste in the ugly long URL, and add a title that makes your new URL easier to remember,.
In this demonstration, our URL was:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/
We chose web2 as the title, and this is what we were given:
http://decenturl.com/downloadsquad/web2
Hi Everywhere!
Know the area in which you live pretty well? Are you good at showing people around? Why not volunteer as a local tour guide? The social networking site Hi Everywhere! hooks up travelers with volunteer guides. There are currently under 100 users, and they haven't managed to hook up too many travelers as of yet. For a site that relies on members, they have a few more to attract before this can be a tourists haven.
Onaswarm
Onaswarm is your lifestream. This site gathers all of your web content, videos, networks, photos and molds them into a single web hub where friends can check out what you are up to. You can also make widgets that will display the data on other webpages, and tags can be implemented to make finding content a little easier.
trutap
Trutap allows users to take all of their social tools wherever they go. The global messaging service hooks up IM, Flickr, Blogger, Facebook and MySpace accounts and inserts them into one convenient handheld application. The beta download currently supports select popular phones made by LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony Erickson.
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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
