“You are what you tweet”

“Suddenly, it seems as if all the world is a-twitter.” Newsweek

Twitter is my homepage, I start reading tweets or tweeting before I eat my breakfast, I have a cell-phone so I can tweet with it, I have printed my Twitter ID on my business card, I’ve figured out new ways to shorten words, I cheated on Facebook with all @’s and RT’s, I talk to my friends via Twitter, I read more tweets than I read blogs,  and I’ve already tweeted about this post while you’re still reading it. Am I addicted to Twitter? Yes, absolutely I am! I’m in, on, all over ,it!!and my name is @ozge (on Twitter).

What makes me more addictive to Twitter are the applications to enhance twittersphere! Here are my favourites:

TaTweet lets you describe future plans or events with date and time. It’s a social calendar and an event organizer.

MyTweetMap is a way to see the latest tweets from your friends on Google Map. You can also update your statues with this tool.

If you are making music, now it is time to tweet your song with TweetMySong.

Twtely lets you create a poll or a start a discussion on Twitter or you can use StrawPoll for creating easy polls.

You can track a conversation between two Twitter users via Bettween.

Twitlife allows you to share files, you can post files from your phone or through this application. You can also try TweetCube.

TweetRadio is the most interesting Twitter application for me. You can listen to tweets as if you are listening to an old radio transmission. Try out this tool, please!The motto is great! Have you heard the bird?

You can back up your tweets now with Tweetake. It’s good to see all your tweets together on a page. You can also add your Twitter feed to your Google calender with Twistory to make your Twitter history fun and useful!

You can tweet share your resume on Twitter with TwitRes and keep track of people views and feedback.

Pockets lets you leave a voicemail for anyone, once you send your voicemail, they will be notified with @reply.

TwitPaint allows you to paint your graffiti and share it with your followers.

140 characters not enough for you?Now, you can add up to 14,400 characters to a tweet via TweetExtend.

If you want to know when people share your links on Twitter. Tweetiator alerts you with a mail when you content is shared.

Do you wonder where your Twitter friends are from? HereBeTwitters shows your friends on a Google map. Don’t miss this tool!

Do you remember your very first tweet? If you don’t, check it out with MyFirstTweet or TwitterStorm. If you have more than 3200 tweets, you won’t be able to use these apps for some reasons but you can learn who was your first follower via FirstFollower or WhenDidYouJoinTwitter or learn how much your Twitter is worth with TwtValue.

Twitzee lets you send out tweets without using your Twitter account.

You can share pictures, videos and images with Tvider or use TweeTube to share pictures & photos, YouTube videos, website URLs and more.

TwitterTimeline lets you view your Twitter feed on a timeline.

You can record your voice to Twitter for 10 seconds via TwitSay, you can also use TwitterFone to send voice messages to Twitter.

Do you want to learn how happy your tweets are? Enter you name and learn it via HappyTweets

TwitTree lest you visualize your friends in a recursive tree. You can also @, RT or update your statue with this tool.

CollectiveLondon is a Twitter application where Santa tells if you have been naughty or nice this year searching your tweets. He told me “You’re nice and you deserve to jingle all the way!”.

You ask questions to LazyTweet to get answers. Just write @lazytweet before you ask your question!

With Twuffer, you can compose future tweets and schedule them to be tweeted later.

Twittionary is a Twitter dictionary with explanations of Twitter related words.

You can send virtual gifts to your twitter friends via TweSents.

I will be back with more Twitter applications. Till then, Happy Tweeting!!

Cross posted on TechLearning.

More faves every week…

44tips is an online start page with everything you love in it.  You can keep your social network accounts on the same page, import your photos, videos, pictures and bookmarks, fins new content with suggestions of sites, videos, pictures similar to yours. It’s now very easy to create your multimedia presentation.

LinkBlip lets you monitor when the links you’ve sent to others has been clicked. You get a special URL and send it to other. When someone clicks the URL, you’re notified with an email with the time the link was clicked as well as the city which they were in.

AnyTypos is an easy way to check the spelling of your text. You can paste your text or just start typing it.

GoodWidgets is a way to create photo widgets for your blog or websites. It has different displays of photos. You can check the gallery here. This is sure to be my favourite photo presentation widget!

CopyScape is a site that detects online plagiarism. You can easily search copies of your pages using this site.  lets you search copies of you pages on web. You can get a banner to defend your site here.

I’ve read many posts on PhotoPeach these day and I though this week is a good time to add it to my faves. PhotoPeach simply lets you create rich slideshows and embed them to your blog or websites. You upload your photos, arrange them and add some music to publish it. But there is much more to do with your slideshows when you finish them. If you click on edit, you will see a quiz button that lets you create fill in the blanks type questions.

Stay tunned!!

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“No one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock

“The 21st century collaboration” moves us from its traditional definition towards a new one with the developing web technologies.

Here is the second part of my collaboration tools list for techie collaborators.

Voxopop is a message board system which lets you create talk groups that you can talk, discuss and collaborate using your own voice. Some of you may remember  Voxopop as Chinswing in the past. You can listen to public discussions though you need to join to create yours.You can easily send group invitations, keep your discussion private, open or restricted.You can delete it whenever you want. You can explore public talk groups on Education, Learning and Language here.

EtherPad is a web based word processor that lets you work with others at the same time. When multiple users work on the same documents , you can get feedback immediately. You know who contributed to the text, also all changes are saved on the server in case you need to undo.

Mindmeister is an online collaborative mind mapping tool that you can brainstorm with others real-time. You can create your own mind maps on an award winning interface or share  them with your friends or collaborate with others to create a collaborative map.

Survs lets you create your online surveys collaborating with others in multi user accounts. You can collect responses and analyze the results in real time with others.

I’m sure many of us are familiar with VoiceThread. It’s a tool to have conversation around different kinds of media. It’s one of the best ways to talk and share about your images,documents or videos. You create your Voicethread and others can leave comments by telephone, text, web cam, microphone or file upload. Learn more about it by watching this Voicethread.

Tgether allows you to communicate in small groups by emails. You can share files, track conversation and manage your group. You can share codes or use 3rd party applications that Tgther provides.

StoryBirds are short and simple stories that connect you with others. Two or more people can create a Storybird story by writing their own texts and inserting pictures by taking turns. You can create your story with the person sitting next to you or someone who is far away from you.

WebCanvas is a collaborative painting project. You can paint using different basic tools, upload or post professionally drawn images or you can watch others paint live. This is an interesting project for artists though we can still give a try.

AwesomeHighlighter is the easiest way to highlight texts on web pages. When you finish highlighting, you get a link and share it with others. If you like this, you should also try Markkit.

Protagonize is a community that writes collaborative, interactive fiction. One person starts the story, the others post chapters to your story that will lead it to different directions. At the end, it becomes an evolving story which everyone can participate.

Mixbook is a site that lets you create picture books with others. You start creating your own book with pictures, invite a few friends to build the rest of the book together.

Thinkature places an instant message inside a visual workspace with voice chat. You can use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room or a personal whiteboard.

TextFlow is a way to review document versions instantly to produce a final draft. It matches all the different versions of the text to show you all the suggestion in one single view.

LucidChart is another way to collaborate on a document simultaneously. Everyone can see the changes that have been made on the document .The difference between the other word processors is that it has an built-in group chat that makes it easier for you to collaborate.

Wikispaces is the best way to create collaborative web pages that you can edit and share together. You can watch Wikis in Plain English by Common Craft or visit the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia,Wikipedia! Wikispaces are my favourite wikis, you can have a look at my wikispace though I’ve been using it as an e-portfolio.

Senduit lets you upload your files and share them with private links with your team.

With Stintio, you can create your own chat in seconds. You can invite people to join by simply sending a link. You don’t download or install anything. You chat will be deleted if it is not active for a while.

Yuuguu is an instant screen sharing and video conferencing too that lets you work together quickly and easily.

Voxli allows you to hold voice conferences online. You can have a voice chat up to 200 people. You can invite your teammates by only sending a link, and you don’t have to upload anything. You can use push to talk to control your speaking even you are out of your browser.

Wridea is an online idea management service and a collection of brainstorming tools. You store, manage,organize and share your ideas to improve them with others. You use the web interface or you write an email to your wridea address to keep your ideas organized. You have pages and categories that lets you improve your ideas easily and collaboratively.

Enjoy collaboration!

If you like reading this, you may consider reading 100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration (Part 1).

Cross posted on TechLearning!

New decade, new year,new favourites…

YouTellYou is a new way to share photo stories. You publish your photo stories in minutes. You can upload them from your computer or from your Flickr/Facebook account. You can share your stories via email, Twitter or Facebook.

 There are many text-to-speech applications. iSpeech is a new favourite of mine. Its free version converts text to audio instantly. The sound is clear and natural. You don’t need install anything to use this service. You can also add it to your blog without nay charge.

 Start.io is a start page with your favourite links. You sign up and start adding your favourite links, web pages, blogs etc. that you go everyday. When you visit your page, you will see the links that has new updates. You can also customize it. Startio is an alternative to RSS readers.

I can only say WOW for EarthTunnel! This is the most creative picture sharing site I’ve ever seen on web. You’re in a dark tunnel with pictures around you and you use your keyboard to move in the tunnel. What a great idea!!! Please visit this site!

BonzoBox is an interactive tool that lets you create a speacial BonzoBox site that you can build your page with your favourite websites. It has a drag and drop application that makes it easy for you to collect your favourites. 

 YouTego is a set of photos that describe you, what you know, what you love, where you work. You find pictures that describes those categories about yourself. You also enrich your youtego with micro blogging. You can also find other people that tags the same photos with you under the same categories. I really like the idea of creating tegosets!! 

BusinessCard2 is an online service to create professional network and exchange business cards on web. You can add videos, slide shows, files,external links, your websites, social sites and you can let other people to leave messages and it’s embeddable of course.

More faves next time.. Enjoy!!

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