MetaFilter posts tagged with application and Web

pinboard.in is like del.icio.us

chunking express — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:53:54 -0800

Maciej Ceglowski of Idlewords has made a new bookmarking service called pinboard. The goal seems to be to recreate and improve on del.icio.us, which is kind of crazy now. The site has a membership fee which grows as the userbase grows (number of users * $0.001). Maciej Ceglowski calls this a financial CAPTCHA.

Text Utilities

grumblebee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:23 -0800

"Text Utilities" is a useful browser-based tool for geeks. It's a web page that does all sorts of operations on text, e.g. escape/ unescape, hashing, regexp testing.

Readernaut

chunking express — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:58:12 -0800

Readernaut. Share your reading experience by writing notes, tracking progress, and engaging in meaningful discussions with friends.

Free online photo editor: Picnik.com

loquacious — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:53:40 -0800

Picnik. Free, online photo editing tools.

Dapper: an API for any website

MetaMonkey — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:59:03 -0800

Dapper: The Data Mapper
A recently launched service that allows users to extract data from any website into XML, and transform or build applications and mashups with that data. Described by it's creators as a way to, "easily build an API for any website... through a visual and intuitive process". Plagiarism Today, meanwhile, has cause for concern, "Dapper is a scraper. Nothing more... now the technologically impaired can scrape content from any site... the potential danger [is] very, very real".

Ning!

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:16:28 -0800

Ning is a very cool thing. 'Sign up. Build new social apps. Use new social apps.' [via Torrez]

Furl: A web page filing cabinet

ajr — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:51:39 -0800

Furl is an elegant application that acts as your web filing cabinet. Store, rate and categorize web clippings with the click of a bookmarklet. Once collected, search, share or publish your links via email or RSS. (via Inter-Alia.)

Compare your MP3-listening habits

oissubke — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:33:33 -0800

Learn and compare your MP3 listening habits (via Waxy)