Continuing with my discovery list...
Continuing with my discovery list, here's a small list of some slick Web 2.0 I discovered!
1. SHARE (beta)
A new Adobe service in beta mode. Just like Adobe's softwares, it's sleek interface and free online storage solves designers' top problem, sharing large files online. Recently Adobe added an online PDF convertor to add to the usability of SHARE. More Adobe betas can be found here.
2. Weebly
I've never seen an online web builder as easy and powerful as Weebly! It really is WYSIWYG. What you see is what you get. You can choose to get the website hosted on Weebly, link it to your own domain, or save the generated codes. The provided templates are already my eye candy : p
I'm not sure this is exactly useful for me, but a discovery is a discovery. I didn't know Nokia encourages 3rd party applications and miscellaneous things for their mobiles. But the website, compared to their current one, is quite refreshing. Though for me, I don't exactly find their user-generated contents very handy.
4. The Filter (private beta)
The Filter used to be a downloadable application for mac and Windows users to generate music playlists based on your music library's songs' bpm. Somehow when I decided to go back and reinstall it to my new mac, boom. They changed everything. The playlist generator no longer exist. Rather, as a private beta tester, they changed it to an online media recommendation web. Not only on music but movies as well. Up until now I'm still not getting the hang of it, how the recommendation works and all, but it's only in it's private beta mode. So improvements should be seen in the near future : )
5. finetune
Now that's what I call a Pandora alternative! To those who cannot access Pandora due to copyright infringements (and of course, to those who do not edit their proxies), finetune is a really neat alternative! After experiencing with really ineffective recommendation services, I think finetune provides a really comprehensive and relative music recommendations. I don't exactly know how the recommendation works, but I know one thing for sure that it doesn't only recommend songs that matches the bpm, or artists that used to be in that band but went solo, but songs that has the ambient you're looking for. The good thing, it never lags my browser.
6. AccuRadio
Not exactly a new discovery, but I think AccuRadio's worth on my small list. It has the most comprehensive music radio directory, covering massive genres, and moods that you'll probably be interested in. The decent web design gives you a sense of organization back in the days you know? Rather than thinking of a song that is the type of music you want to listen to, AccuRadio is the choice to just let the music flow, all you need to do is click on a channel. tatan!
Enough with the music recommendation, here comes the visual part. SideReel does not violet copyright infringements, they just gather a collective amount of links to uploaded TV episodes, movies and anime. Think of it as a TV/ Movie/ Anime directory with links to the actually video! For drama episodes, they even list the episodes out in order and in seasons, how civilized! Again, neat website.
More about lifestyles to come on my next discovery list!
