I spent some time this week with Patrick  de Laive, one of the founders of Fleck.com, a reinvention of Third Voice that looks much more promising. Fleck lets you leave comments and annotations on any site. Those notes can be seen either by the whole world or by one of your designated groups. It has obvious applications within an organization, and is a nice, open annotation platform that people may find lots of uses for. Plus, it’s a pretty cool implementation, and the upcoming one has lots and lots of miscellaneous goodies.

I’ve flecked the “play pen” page where you may be reading this post…

AutoRoll creates a list of other sites readers might like based on the other sites they visit and how often they visit them.

This requires using cookies, but the company says that they only track users through meaningless IDs that are not otherwise tied to the user’s identity.

The company also warns that it takes a few days for the AutoRoll to start getting relevant. Nevertheless, here it is:

I’m adding a ClustrMap to the righthand frame. It shows where visitors to the site are located, presumably based on an attempt to figure out where their IP address is coming from. This is an inexact science, but, then, not much hangs on whether the map is exactly right or not.

Many Eyes aggregates a bunch o’ interesting visualizations of data, including the words in Green Eggs and Ham and Guantanamo detainees by age and release status. (We’ve released lots of the Pakistanis but few of the Yemenites.)

Yahoo Pipes lets you construct customized RSS feeds from multiple sources with just the sorts of info you care about. For example, this feed does a content analysis of the NY Times feed and uses that to look up photos at Flickr. You build ‘em through a visual editor that takes more than 45 seconds to figure out. (Thanks to Colin Maclay for the links.) [Tags: visualization feeds rss mashups news]

I believe the software John Palfrey used at the BeyondBroadcast conference is MindMap. It combines outlining with superslick presentation quality. There's an open source outliner that some compare with it called FreeMind, but on a quick look, it doesn't seem to be nearly as slick...but it's free and open source. [Tags: outliners john_palfrey everything_is_miscellaneous]

I’ve just added a string of icons at the bottom of every post that will (generally) post the post to a social bookmarking site. So, if you want to save the post’s Web address into your account at, say, del.icio.us, you’d just click on the del.icio.us icon at the bottom of the post.

I totally stole this from Content to Be Different. Thanks!

To adapt it to WordPress, the software this blog uses, you edit the Main Index Template in Presentation Theme editor. To put in a button that links to blinkbits, you’d add something like this:

<a href=”http://www.blinkbits.com/bookmarklets/save.php?v=1&source_url=<?php the_permalink()?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&body=< ?php the_title(); ?>” title=”blinkbits”><img src=”http://www.yourblogsite.com/wp-content/blinkbits.png” alt=”blinkbits” />

The <?php the_permalink()?> tells WordPress to substitute the permalink of that particular post and the < ?php the_title(); ?> tells it to put in the post’s title. And, of course you’ll have to change the URL of the image file that you’re linking to.

Let the debugging begin! :)

Technorati.com is a search site that indexes blogs - Google for blogs, as I’m sure Technorati doesn’t like it put. It also lets you embed a chart of how frequently a word is mentioned on blogs over time. This one charts the occurence of tags, tagging and folksonomy:

Posts that contain Tags Tagging Folksonomy per day for the last 30 days.

Click here to get your own chart.

(Disclosure: I’m on Technorati’s advisory board.)