Absolutely useless, but I just had to do it.
The content’s a bit thin right now, but if they keep it up, this will become a really good resource for UI experts and not-so-experts. Read on…
Look at the Caller ID on your phone, and don’t recognize the number? Caller Complaints is a community policed database of phone numbers that are basically telemarketers. The Digg style complaint rating is very, very cool.
Yeah, yeah, it’s political season, so there should be a few political sites, right? Freedom Speaks is a for-profit political forum that lets you send letters to your political representatives across the board. It has all the bells and whistles for a social website, and seems to be getting some traction, generating a few thousand visitors a month despite being launched just recently.
One of the best features is when you click on a profile, you can see all of the representatives for that person. Very cool.
How do people think, based on Twitter? Click here to discover for yourself.
Need a disposable email address? GuerillaMail is for you. You can sign up for the service, and it will create email addresses that are good for 15 minutes, perfect for those online services that will eventually resell those email addresses and spam you.
Browser Shots takes a screen shot of your website for quality assurance purposes in over 40 browsers available on the web — testing it across the board in PC, Mac, and Linux platforms. Excuse me while I fix some issues I found in Galeon 1.3.20.
Imagine if you could keep track of all of your friends and what they are doing on social networks, and at the same time your friends are notified about what you are doing? FriendFeed does that, and more.
You can share your notifications one of two ways:
The setup was fairly easy — I did so in about ten minutes.
The list of networks they have so far:
Digg, Google Reader, Mixx, Reddit, Bookmarking, del.icio.us, Furl, Google Shared Stuff, Ma.gnolia, StumbleUpon, Gmail/Google Talk, Jaiku, Pownce, Twitter, Seesmic, Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, SmugMug, Zooomr, Blog Blog, Tumblr, iLike, Last.fm, Pandora, Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon Wishlists, Disqus, LinkedIn, Netflix Queue, Netvibes, SlideShare, Upcoming, Yelp
Music fans on SellaBand invest 10 dollars in an artist they want to back. If the artist gets to 5,000 ‘believers' they get 50,000 dollars and then SellaBand steps in to get the band to record an album in a real studio. Each fan gets a limited edition CD. If the artist doesn't reach $50,000, the fans can get their money back or give it to another artist.
Visit the site — cool idea. Another way for bands to make it big.
(By the way, I purchased a limited edition album from Mandy Leigh — good stuff, and I used to review music a long time ago, so my opinion counts. You should buy it too).
Patrick Neeman is Director of User Experience at Jobvite, a social recruiting platform and runs both the UX Drinking Game and Startup Drinking Game | More | Contact
