Beta Watch: A couple of interesting-looking new sites are doing the “send us your email address for a beta invite” thing. Iceberg On Demand is another attempt at the perennial theme of letting non-technical users build their own enterprise applications, this time in the web browser. Meanwhile, Gleamd is the latest on the social network block, letting you “submit people, vote on people, and watch the most interesting rise to the top” in a sort of online baseball-card trading.
Don’t Want to Wait in Line?: It had to happen – InviteShare is a Web 2.0 clearinghouse where people can request and get invitations to all those other Web 2.0 sites. It’s only a week or so old and already 7,000 invitations have been swapped around.
And Speaking of Dubious Behavior: There’s Bligter, a site that lets you find reusable blog posts by searching or browsing through a tag cloud, for those days when you’re just too busy to have an original thought. Alternatively, if you have your own brilliant but reusable ideas you can toss them into the pool for others to reuse.
Build a Better Mobile Mousetrap: Nokia is holding their annual “Mobile Rules!” business plan and application competition, where you can win a contract (or up to $20,000) if you submit a bang-up idea of making great use of the Nokia platform. Amazingly enough, Nokia does not seem to want to own all rights to your idea, but read the rules carefully.
Good News for MicroISVs: Noted author and developer Bob Walsh has opened 47 Hats, a consulting firm dedicated specifically to helping microISVs succeed. If you’ve been itching to get off the consulting treadmill and sell a software product as your own boss, this is a site you need to watch.
Maybe They are for Business After All: We all saw the scare stories about how corporate IT departments didn’t want to touch the iPhone with a ten-foot Cat 5 cable, but that hasn’t stopped enterprise software companies from porting their software to the new platform. Already you can get SuitePhone to tie in to NetSuite’s line of CRM and ERP products or Etelos CRM for iPhone.
Get Your iPhone Bragging Rights Here: And if you’re going to be using the iPhone for heavy-duty enterprise apps, you’d better be able to use it well. The iPhone Typing Test measures your skills with the funky new soft keyboard.
Mix Your Real and Virtual Lives – That’s the premise of fatdoor, a social network that revolves around geolocation. Enter your address to get started, and see who else on your block has signed up. Their hope is to use it to get to know your neighbors and plan things like block parties.
More Widgets Than Your Can Shake a Stick at: Widgetbox provides a directory and syndication platform for TypePad, Blogger, WordPress, and MySpace widgets. There’s a lot of opportunity to clutter up your pages here, but if you’re picky you can find some gems.
A Smarter Way to Stumble?: Thoof offers a new take on the idea of a shared bookmark manager. In addition to letting you submit things for sharing and visit links others have shared, it also lets you rate links as you click them. This information is then used to personalize the set of links you’re shown in the future, with the notion that you’ll eventually only get shown things you’re actually interested in seeing.
Web 2.0 Cheat Sheet: If your brain is still stuck in the dot-com era, clip and save this Dot-Com to Web 2.0 Thesaurus from Electric Pulp. Remember, Will it Blend is the new Hampster Dance.
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