RoamAbout is a plugin that delivers information on the web contextually. Users would not need to leave the site they are browsing in order to search for videos, music, pictures or share the things they come across with. This Firefox & IE plugin bring all these to the user by just highlighting the text any user want without leaving the web page they are viewing. One can get related information by selecting text and clicking the RoamAbout Icon in status bar also users can post to their twitter account, the selected text of a web page and post it directly their, without even leaving the web page actually. Similarly users can browse flickr photos, Google news, info from Wikipedia, maps from MapQuest and videos from YouTube and by just selecting the text in web page you are viewing and hitting the plugin's icons bar. User can customize the the plugin bar so as to limit the no. of Icons for different Web services or websites such as stock quotes, weather or games. Moreover, the company behind RoamAround Vysr do have the open platform that provides developers with any easy way to add and integrate services and networks that users can tap into as ...

AppApeal.com has created web 2.0 Mosaic i.e. an art in form of world map filled with small pieces of images, which in this case are logos of leading web 2.0 websites. This World Web 2.0 Mosaic is created from 1001 web 2.0 company logos which when clicked take you to the related website. The logos will appear in full-size when you hover over the mosaic. This art of AppApeal has reminded me of Million Dollar Page that had created a lot of buzz, couple of years back but here in this case its free but no inclusion request or so. One things I found annoyed in AppApeal's Mosaic art is that not even a single website or blog from India has been included in the web 2.0 logos art, though there are worth full websites from India that are much popular than many of the websites present in mosaic art. Nevertheless, a great art work. Thanks, Jelle de Bruin.

MSNBC one of most reputed digital news channel from Microsoft has lately launched a stunning visual RSS reader called Spectra News Reader, that picks news from MSNBC News channels and put in front of user to get a nice visual experience. The App has ability to make it customizable and adding some human interactivity as well. The App Spectra let users to add news channels which in turn carry topics and all this in color combinations and designs to let users distinguish the pallets flying orbitally with headlines on it. The app as apparent is to promote the news website and to compete with the other online news websites which are way ahead than MSNBC.com. If we talk about the channels/ topics that MSNBC have are good enough and vast quality content as well, even though sites like Digg.com, NYTimes, Del.icio.us and even reddit are way ahead than MSNBC. Digg too have similar fashioned Visual web tools or apps to lure its users such as Digg Spy, Arc or Big Spy but it would get its part of traffic anyway. MSNBC in a similar manner does have number of tools, apps and widgets to make its content go viral, one can see all ...

Sitepoint a leading web and online media website is giving a Free 278 page book (PDF version) titled "The Photoshop Anthology" which would usually cost $29.95. The book comprises the examples, hints and inspirations for web designers right from designing a glassy button to background images or classy templates. The book is available for Free, at no extra conditions at Sitepoint and, this free giveaway is only for time constraint of 22 days from time of this post. So, just grab the valuable book for all you designers there, as it does not requires any single thing from you, except for your email ids. Sitepoint, as apparent is 1,866th most visited site in the world and is making mark among web professionals and online media including books for same.

PicLens is a powerful application that turn your browser into full screen 3D experience to view images and videos. Piclens transform your browser into cinematic visual presentation with images and videos put on wall and make you assume like you are seeing them on wall of a dark room. The application indeed a rich experiencing tool with media player like controls where you can fast forward, rewind, view full screen or scroll thumbnails to view images and videos. Piclens has recently make the application compatible to view YouTube videos along previous compatibility to view Google image search results into 3D visualization as well as that of Yahoo, AOL, Ask.com and Live image searches, thats too with just one single click. Moreover, PicLens allow to view photos on Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and Smugmug into same 3D visualization along with social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and Friendster. For other sites/ blogs to be compatible with PicLens application, one has to create a media RSS along with its auto-discovery link for same and other addition in HTML to match those tags in media RSS with images and videos under webpage. However, WordPress users can use the plugin to create a mini slide ...

AT&T, a Communication, Internet and wireless major company entered into war of 'Browsers', AT&T has tied up with Vizible to create a new browser of other kind called Pogo Browser, the browser will be giving users the new internt browsing experience rather than the traditional browsers that over a decade managed to evolve just by inculcating handfull of features like plugins, extensions etc. The new Browser Pogo will be 3D environment & visualizaton browser along with rich graphics, content handling to engage user nicely with what he is browsing, the browser will be having tabbed browsing but far different from traditional tabbed browsing unlike to Firefox or IE7 as tabs will be small screenshots of pages to chose from, tag them and drag/ drop them around, to put in archives or bookmarks. At present the browser is in closed beta invites which will be released under open public beta soon within a month or two. The 3D rendering engine of browser with its more user engageable features to experience from Vizible's visual-based technology. the Pogo would prove, the next geaneration of browsers to compete hard with itself unless it is assumed that this browser doesn't demand to much computer memory (as goes ...

Gaming industry seems to grooming in a more positive way, so positive that it now want you too get rid of stress hormones and bring about changes in yourself by seeing things in more positive way. A new video game designed by McGill University researchers has been launched that help to train people to change their perception of social threats and boost their self-confidence, moreover it is said that it reduce the production of the stress-related hormone cortisol. Mindhabit is gaming website that help people to cut down their stress and pump their self confidence and the game MinHabit Trainer is game that inhibit principle of research conducted by Dr. Baldwin’s at McGill University. The game 'MindHabits Trainer' applies three principles of social intelligence, as used in Dr. Baldwin’s research: activation, inhibition and association. The game and website again is result of what is called social networking meme going more than a hype these days, this gaming website that titled as - "Great games from serious science" is just another mashup of social networking + Online Gaming + Psychometric tactics. As per the website - "Research shows people who feel better about themselves and are better connected to others are healthier. In fact, experiencing ...

One of the visible traits in web 2.0 rich websites are either their logo, domain name or images i.e. they have some reflection better understood as mirror reflections or shadows at bottom (most of them having written 'Beta' alongside or superscript). This something like I did with IndianWeb2.com logo and image of a flower below; This is better known as "Web 2.0 Style" Images and Fonts and to make a normal images or a text into this web2-style images/ text, tutorials are available as how to add reflections/ make mirror images with or without Adobe Photoshop. TOOLS - There are some tools to get Web20 style images in an instant and one of my favorite is - Reflectomatic, here you just give a URL of image and it will make a reflection to it just like web20 image/ logo, you can even adjust opacity, height of reflection and scale image. Others tools/ web20 logo creator are; - Web2.0 Logo Creator by ALex P - Web 2.0 Stylr - Web2.0 Logo Creator - Web2.0 text/ Logo generator USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP - Adobe Photoshop can also be handy in making Web20-style images and texts without much hassle, core part is making duplicate of image/ text and flip it vertically and ...

In IndianWeb2.com's previous post of Visualize Your Web, Bookmarks, Tags and Blogosphere, I have posted about two very good example of web 2.0/ mashups of del.icio.us tags and blogosphere by Sixpli and Twingly.com respectively. Now here are some more and bunch of resources, tools and websites dealing with mashing up with visual web 2.0, visual web semantics mashups sites, apps and tools etc. So here is the list - Walk2Web - Walk2Web is a visualization tool that shows graphical link structure of URL entered and sites linked to it and let you surf these sites as if you are walking along these linked sites and at the same you can see screenshot of these sites. Websites as Graph - It makes a Graph of Websites by providing URL of website which then convert the HTML code of any webpage into Tree/ Nodes like graph structure where colors represent various tags of webpage source code. Scriptaculous - script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your websites and web applications for e.g. - Drag and Drop AJAX box, Slide in/out, Autocompleting AJAX text fields, Sortable elements w/AJAX callback, Combination Effects Demo. One of my favorite and best for Web 2.0 ...

A lot of online as well as desktop tools has been developed in Visual Web arena. Manipulate and discovering your own tags in bookmarked or tagged items might look awful thus making this complexity more simple in form of visualized enviornment to find, relate or even play with these visual output. Sixpli Alfa lets visualize bookmarked tags in a del.icio.us account and let explore them with their relations to each other, it also creates output for more than one account by finding common tags with. With this flash based tool users can play with visualization options such as elastic net 2D, elastic net 3D and circle 2D. Sixpli.com is still in alfa phase and not open to all users though one can ask them for being alfa testers via e-mail at sixpli@sixpli.com. See snapshots below. Another one under same stream of visualizing web is Primelabs.com's - Twingly, that visualize the global blog activity in real time, this tool comes as windows screensaver. Twinlgy screensaver visualize the globe as dynamic 3D view of earth and blog posts across the globe as bars standing on continents. Its usability is quite like RSS reader where in this case you are not limited to your choice ...