This page is a repository of sites, both interesting and useful, that TechnologyStory.com has featured on past blog posts. While not every post has an Interesting Site featurette, a lot do. As a side note, some of the editorializing may seem out of place when read outside the context of the story.

  • BuiltWith.com - This site evaluates your Website as to the tools you are using and scores it on the Web 2.0 sophistication level. TechnologyStory.com got a 4 out of 5 by the way…
  • daylife is a news site that takes the Web 2.0 experience to the extreme. What I really enjoy about the site is how I can stumble down the news in an organic fashion. I read an article about the unrest in Tibet and from there I found connections to stories and topic vast and far-reaching.
  • EditGrid This is one of the most advanced online spreadsheets…
  • Eswarm.com As new ways to purchase products emerge, note this play on an old concept. This is simply an automated way for creating an ad hoc buying group. As I watched my wife and daughter get up at 3:00 AM to go shopping on Black Friday, I am reminded the lengths to which people will go to find a bargain…
  • GrandCentral Sticking with today’s theme of convergence, I wanted to share GrandCentral with you. GrandCentral’s service allows you to seamlessly link all of your phone numbers to one number. So your home phone, office phone and cell phone can all be reached by dialing one number. Then you can set rules to who rings through to which number or in what order the system tries to find you in. I can tell the service that when Scott calls me I want him to ring directly through to my cell phone, but if my neighbor calls send it straight to the home number. Both called one phone number, with different results. Google acquired Grand Central last July of 2007 and though so far has made little or no changes, I would expect to see the service folded into another offering or just consumed entirely at some point.
  • Google Finance might be one you have all seen before, but it has some nice tools that may have gotten lost in the shuffle. Comparisons, news and SEC filings all in one place.
  • HiPiHi - this is the Chinese virtual world - at least take a look at the front page and see what they are doing…
  • Netcraft.com. Netcraft is a tool that many techies have used for years. You can quickly see what a web site is running their system on, how long they have been up and even where they host. For instance, we are running our site on Apache utilizing Wordpress.
  • PoliticalBase.com As we head in to the heart of the political season here in America take a look at this site. It acts as an aggregator of all political news, events and commentary while forming a large community for politically minded people from all across the nation. Much like the Wikipedia anyone can edit any page and then editors decide to post or decline the edits. PoliticalBase.com can also notify you when news breaks about any topic, including your favorite candidate.
  • PollEveryWhere - I have been waiting for this site for a couple of years. It allows a presenter to ask polling questions and have the audience simply text message their answer in.
  • Qik.com is a revolutionary site that allows users to upload video and photos directly from their phones to the web. It is still in alpha release, which means you might find it buggy, but check out these videos: Dinner almost finished and this untitled one too. OK, so these are tiny little videos with not so great resolution, but just think of the young Spielberg’s out there waiting to make content. Also take a moment to play with the idea that the web is real time and that content if flowing 24 hours a day, all year round.
  • SEOmoz.org Web 2.0 Awards offers a huge list of great sites in the Web 2.0 collaborative vein. The list is massive, take some time and see what’s out there.
  • Silobreaker.com - Silobreaker provides search results optimized for newsmakers and current-event topics with a wealth of added-value elements including: context extraction, which is how the person or topic fits in with other people, institutions, or categories; geographical mapping, trend tracking, which is a great visualization for graphing numbers of mentions in the world press, and relational mapping. It allows you to see how a particular news item or newmaker touches other news items around the globe.
  • Topicle - I have been experimenting for about a week with Topicle, a new site that allows your to create your own search engine for free. No, you can’t brand it with your own logo or look and feel, yet, but I like how quickly you get something up and functional. In about three minutes I had added a few URL’s for my search engine to index, I simply allowed in only websites that compliment searching for technology news in the enterprise; Slashdot, Information Week and TechCrunch among them, and then I published it: http://technologystory.topicle.com/
  • UNIX is an open standard, shepherded by The Open Group, can you get more ‘open’?
  • WebHotorNot.com allows you to vote how well you like the look and feel of a site. Completely addicting.

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