Round up of the week

I've not really found time to write anything this week so here's a summary of what I've been doing and looking at.

Social Media Releases

I'm working on an application for creating and publishing these things. On the surface the idea seems simple enough but the feature list calls for a huge heap of external services. I'm building an impressive collection of API keys for this project.

Digsby

this social network / IM / email aggregator is my killer app of the year so far, the IM widget embedded in the site has proved to be a real help in opening lines of communication. I've had several conversations with people dropping by the blog and asking questions rather than posting comments. The IM format is private and more informal requiring less thought (and time) than constructing a comment.

Mippin

I've taken a look at this tool to convert your RSS or Atom feed into a mobile enabled website, there are options for adding mobile advertising into the pages too. I have to give props to David from Mippin who saw my half finished test of the service and offered to add the site logo and favicon for me (another contact via Digsby widget)

Odiogo

I've seen more than one service like this but this one seems to be simple and easy, the site creates mp3 audio renderings of the text in your page and if given an RSS feed, it will create a podcast feed with the mp3 files added as enclosures.

Future of Web Design

I wasn't able to attend FOWD this year but our company sent a couple of guys down there, I don't feel that I've missed out on too much though thanks to Jeremy Keith's Liveblogging of the Speakers. I think we've ordered the DVD of the presentations so I'll look forward to that.

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