Lots of people love Emily Chang's eHub, a site she describes as "a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on
next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source,
folksonomy, design and digital media sharing."
I find it interesting that it has so many subscribers,
almost 4600, and I imagine it's because people like the human editing of selections. None the less, there are a
lot of services posted there and I thought readers might enjoy an even further narrowing of the week's highlights.
From 39 services listed on eHub this week, my 5 favorite are:
EchoSign you email someone a
PDF that needs a signature. They print and sign it, then fax it to an Echosign fax number. Echosign then
emails a signed PDF to all designated recipients. Lots of security, lots of cross platform functionality. Pretty
cool, I can imagine some uses for that. It's a free service at the level where they store your 20 most recently
sent documents. More features and storage at higher price points.
BlinkSale online invoicing, 2nd version just released. I'm going to look
into this one later this month.
FeedRinse RSS feed filtering. You
set up conditions for an item in a feed to get past the filter, Feedrinse gives you a new feed that will only deliver
the items that pass the test. I love this service. I use it all the time and just turned a client on to it
yesterday. With some creative thinking this opens up some neat possibilities. Plus the site is so pretty to
look at. Doesn't seem like that complicated a task, but I've read elsewhere that feed filtering is process
intensive enough that it makes sense to have a dedicated service in the consumer space.
EditGrid online, shared spreadsheets. Editable with real time updates, imports
and exports in MS Excel, CSV, Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org Calc. Looks pretty nice. I know there a
number of services like this out there, but I haven't done any in depth feature comparison.
Teamslide $99 bucks for AJAX based "screen sharing" type web conferency
program? I'm interested for sure, but don't know if I'll be plunking down a hundred for it. It could be
great, though!
Well, that's a wrap up of my favorites of the week from Emily Chang's eHub! If people like this, maybe I'll make it a regular
post.
This week's highlights from eHub
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Thanks Aaron, and thanks for your work on such a great service! (Aaron works on Feedrinse.)
Posted at 11:30PM on Apr 27th 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
3. The part about RSS feed filtering is very interesant for me, thank you.
Posted at 2:14PM on May 1st 2006 by Grace Smith
1. Excellent post - I might be biased though. Current selections aside, this would make a great recurring topic.
Posted at 11:25PM on Apr 27th 2006 by Aaron