MindMeister is a great looking application for online brainstorming.

Fans of mind mapping technologies will appreciate the ability for multiple users to work on the same mind map at the same time.

The application is very responsive has a clean and simple interface.

Go try it out!

Source: Mind Mapping Software Weblog

Technorati Tags: brainstorm, mindmap, MindMeister, puppy, web 2.0, web2.0, web20

Pocket is an interesting social bookmarking service.

Their bookmarklet overlay’s on top of the page you are visiting in a very pleasing fashion. The entire user interface and experience is beautiful and very polished.

They offer comma and return delimited tags (something I highly recommend) making for very human readable tags.

Pocket also offers a del.icio.us import function to get your legacy bookmarks in.

Definitely a must visit even just to check out how nice their presentation is.

Technorati Tags: bookmarklet, bookmarks, del.icio.us, delicious, pocket, social bookmarking, web 2.0, web2.0, web20

PiXPO is a Victoria, BC, Canada company that offer video/photo/audio sharing.

The unique twist is the files are served from your machine. This saves the hassles of uploading the files and allows them to be delivered at full fidelity. Additionally, users can choose for the files to be public or private to share those special memories with just their friends and families.

As your machine is the one serving up the media, If your machine is offline so is your media. An upcoming update will remove that limitation by subscribing to a hosting package. Additionally if your media gets popular, PiXPO caches the media and delivers it so your home machine doesn’t come to a screeching halt.

In May they raised a $6.5 MM Series A financing round lead by Madrona, with participation from GrowthWorks, Yaletown Venture Partners, Springbank TechVentures.

Look for some exciting things from PiXPO 4.0 launching around October.

Technorati Tags: audio, Growthworks, Madrona, photos, PiXPO, puppy, Springbank, victoria, video, web 2.0, web2.0, web20, Yaletown

Dapper is officially my favorite web application I’ve reviewed! And I only started playing with it early this morning. Dapper will change the way I use the internet!

They’ve executed on something I’ve been wishing for for quite some time. I’m SO glad I don’t have to build it now.

Dapper allows you extract data and create a web service out of ANY webpage. No need to understand grep, curl or complex scripting. They provide a visual interface for selecting the content elements that you want to capture from a page.

They’ve done a decent job with the interface for defining which content you want to scrape from a page though I think they can and will do more to make the parsing easier.

Once you’ve configured a Dapper, you can output the resulting data in an array of formats:

XML - A raw XML feed
HTML - A simple HTML display of the scraped data
RSS - A RSS Feed
Alert - Sends an email alert whenever the data on the page changes.
Email - Emails the data to any email address
Google Map - Creates a Google map with any address data from the data source.
Google Gadget - Creates a gadget to place on your Google homepage
Image Loop - Creates a scrolling display of all the images in the data feed
JSON - A JSON datafeed that you can utilize directly in your javascript apps
Link to Another Dapper - Allows you to use data from one Dapper in another Dapper

To top it all off, they’ve created API’s for PHP4, PHP5 and Java5 allowing you to easily access the data generated from your dapper.

The BILLIONS of pages out there that don’t have an API or RSS feed can now be parsed without a lot of effort. I firmly believe Dapper will be a game changing and disruptive internet service. Dapper will empower a new generation of web applications and mashups.

They are currently in beta with an expected August release. I’m completely excited to see what the Interent community does with this.

Mashupers start your engines!

Technorati Tags: dapper, Google Maps, Israel, json, mashup, dappit, rss, scrape, screen scraper, web 2.0, web service, web2.0, web20, xml

Yahoo just announced their new Search Builder service. Similar to Rollyo and Microsoft’s Live Search Macros the service allows you to build your own search engine and choose which sites and keywords you want to include and exclude from the search.

Once you configure your search engine, Yahoo provides the code for you to place it on your website. Not a whole lot different than what you’ll find at Rollyo, however Yahoo’s reach is sure to get more exposure for this.

Technorati Tags: live, microsoft, searchbuilder, rollyo, yahoo