AlertThingy! provides a connection to twitter, friendfeed, flickr, tinyurl and allows cross commenting. It’s better than it sounds and is used as a twitter replacement by many who want to make more sense out of twitter and narrow down their focus on specific people and topics.

TwitterCal – This service allows you to post events from your Google calendar to your Twitter accounts.

Twitter Digest – This tool allows you to subscribe to a message stream from a Twitter user of a group of users on the web or through an atom feed.

Summize – A Twitter search engine, contender for the top app in this category.

Flaptor Twitter Search – A simple Twitter search engine which generates an rss feed. Also provides trends, comparisons.

del.icio.us twitter tags – what people are bookmarking about twitter lately

TopTweet – This site provides you updates from the top Twitter personalities.

Twitter100 – Allocates a box to each of the people you follow on a single page and displays their latest tweets.

Quotably – Shows Twitter user’s conversations in a threaded conversational style making it easier to follow.

Tweetburner – Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.

TwitterLocal – This shows you all the tweets on a google map from your local area and generates an RSS Feed of tweets.

TweetCloud – Let’s you make a tagcloud from a twitter user, also indexes del.icio.us

Tweetpeek – You can create a group Twitter feed with Tweetpeek.

Twitku – Mashup of Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce public timelines. You can also post from its interface.

TwitterNotes – You can create notes on TwitterNotes using Twitter and tagging your notes.

• FastCompany.com – Where ideas and people meet | Fast Company – Fast Company is about to shake things up again. Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: “Computing is…
• Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool – funny flickr pix about microsoft
• HelloTxt – Home – post simultaneously to twitter, jaiku, pownce, plaxo, facebook, tumblr and a bunch more
• Free HTML Form Builder – Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations – web based form builder
• Splashup – Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
• Popular Desktop Apps And Their Online Alternatives – blog index – Outfitting your computer with the latest software can be expensive. Time and money aren?t things to be wasted. With sky rocketing prices for desktop applications, you need to arm yourself with the right alternatives.
• Dive Into Web 2.0: Contents – great free web 2.0 ebook html version
• Dive Into Web 2.0 eBook – an really well presented book on the web 2.0 world
• featured drupal sites | latest showcase | drupal sites network – examples of drupal sites
• Membership Management Software and Website Design for Associations and Chambers of Commerce – Weblink International – web based membership management solution
• entrepreMusings – extraordinary woman raised about $15 million of which $3.5 million was from angels or what I would call boutique VC firms (i.e. a group of angels under one investment roof). Keep in mind that was all before the bubble burst back in 2001.
• Google Maps – googles come up with the killer election map and it’s full ‘o tweeters
• Tom Petty ? ( 187 Lyrics + 23 Albums ) – Tom Petty sings at Superbowl 2008 American Girl , Stand my Ground, Free Fallin’

• ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers – Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing.
• SpaceTime? – With SpaceTime’s? 3D Web Search, you choose your search engine from the drop down menu, type in your search term and enjoy the experience as SpaceTime? displays all your search results at once in our patent pending interface. Enjoy the perks that imme
• FastCompany.tv is Coming Soon – NEW YORK, January 16, 2008 – Mansueto Digital President Edward Sussman today announced the launch of FastCompany.TV, a new online video network featuring coverage of bleeding edge technology trends, interviews with leading executives and business people,
• Works 9.0 release near; Microsoft mum on whether Google Docs killer in wings – The latest update to Microsoft Corp.’s Works productivity software is expected to go on sale Wednesday amid renewed speculation that the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office is also being groomed to take on Google Inc. in the online offi
• Screencast-O-Matic – Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!
• Linux.com :: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 – When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system. Knowing about these tools, and how to effectively use them, can help you overcome many of th
• Facebook | Cisco Systems – This is a group for anyone around the world, who is pursuing a career with Cisco Systems, or any other company that utilizes products, services, and technologies from Cisco Systems.
• Flickr: Tools to upload and share your photos – There are loads of ways for you to upload your photos to Flickr, in addition to the web-based upload form. Try out one of these tools to get your photos online quickly and effectively.
• Linkwad :: Firefox Add-ons – Linkwad lets you save and restore tabbed browsing sessions called wads. Wads can be shared and accessed from any computer. You can also share your “wads”.
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium – There are a number of qualities that can’t be copied. Consider “trust.” Trust cannot be copied. You can’t purchase it. Trust must be earned, over time. It cannot be downloaded.
• Urchin Software from Google – Urchin Software from Google analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides easy-to-understand reports on your visitors – where they come from, how they use your site, what converts them into customers, and much more. If
• A Whole Lotta Nothing ? Matt Haughey?s Personal Blog – How to record a good podcast between two mac users on the cheap
• FIREFOX GOD: 300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox – As the second biggest browser out there, and the biggest open source one, Firefox has a tool for just about anything you can dream up. In this list, Mashable has collected over 300 of the best.

• Theme Viewer – graphical theme viewer for wordpress
• GarageBand.com : charts – tons of podsafe music available for downloading
• ReadWriteWeb – news and apps in the web 2.0 world
• Social bookmarking services poster and community websites submitter: digg.com reddit.com netscape.com propeller.com Del.icio.us Stumbleupon.com etc. –
• DomainsBot – Available domain suggestions, name spinner, expired and expiring domain name search – great domain name search tool
• Mediafly: Technology News podcasts – really great, visually appealing podcast directory
• 12 Podcasts for the Creative Class – Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers–those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.
• Twitter Stats – springnet twitter stats
• Free Windows Vista Drivers Update Scan at RadarSync – This page lists the latest Windows Vista drivers and provides direct links to the files for downloads. We’re offering this as a free service to the community, to help you all get through this challenging period of Vista-transitioning.
• SIW | System Information for Windows – SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100 – Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second, and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust.
• Virtual Hosting Blog » The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets – The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets
• What is Big Think? – Big Think – Featured Ideas – we are what you think
• vozMe – just type your text and it creates an mp3 file
• A Sample of Journals Using Open Journal Systems | Public Knowledge Project – This is not a comprehensive list of the over 900 titles using OJS (as of March 2007) in ten languages, but includes those who have indicated an interest in being listed, and is intended to illustrate the diversity of journals using system.
• Austin jumping on Rails – What started as a grass-roots movement has become one of the hottest new things in programming technology, generating the same level of passion among its adherents as Linux, another outsider technology that moved into the mainstream.
• ONLamp.com — From Weblog to CMS with WordPress – This article describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.
• Twitter Stats – This is a totally ugly engine to produce some stats from your Twitter feed and present them with the Google Charts API, including Tweets per hour of the day, total Tweets per day/month, top @replies and top overall @s.
• Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets – A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart?s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace?
• Software Categories – softwre applications for ubuntu gutsy (debian)
• Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move – Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website. The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.
• About CMS Watch — CMS Watch – Our reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements.
• Podcasting Underground | Podcasting Tips for Podcasters – In this episode of The Podcasting Underground, I talk about how I make the most money from podcasting and blogging. It?s probably not what you?re thinking. In Q3 of this year I used an often overlooked strategy to generate over $70,000 from my podcast
• Mogulus » Broadcast Live. – lifecast 24/7 with mogulus … competition for ustream.tv and justin.tv
• World?s Largest Swimming Pool cost nearly Two Billion Dollars to Build – SlashGear – Seriously, take a long and deep breath if you?re thinking of making a lap in the swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo city, Chile. The 20 acres man-made saltwater lagoon measures more than one thousand yards in length, 115 feet d
• Exclusives: The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientologists Don’t Want You To See – Didn’t get a chance to watch the terrifyingly creepy Tom Cruise video yesterday before Scientologists pulled it off YouTube? Well, we’ve managed to get our hands on a copy and now we’d like to invite you to watch in all its technicolor glory.
• SlashGear – Apparently the deal with this card is that you slide it into your iPhone and it somehow magically hardware unlocks your iPhone. I am not an electrical engineer, so I can?t tell you how well this thing will work, but if I had to guess, it won?t.
• Google Labs – Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.
• Small Laptops – Small laptop: ?A subnotebook (also known as a palmtop, a kneetop or an ultraportable) is an extremely small and lightweight portable computer, with all features of a standard laptop computer and running all its applications. Its overall size is much sm
• HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials | Howtos about Linux and Open Source – HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials about almost every topic.
• Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools | TechnoTarget – Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools
• Feature: Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN – Wake-on-LAN (or WOL), which?as the name suggests?turns on your PC through your local network. Wake-on-LAN is a breeze to set up and use on your local network, and with a little legwork you can set it up so you can wake your computer away from your hom
• Thoof – Welcome to Thoof! Thoof will show you interesting news, websites, videos, and other links, personalized to your individual tastes. Just click on the stories that interest you, and let Thoof do the rest.
• Jane Austen on PBS — PVS / PBS and Public Television videos and DVDs – Masterpiee the complete Jane Austen airing on PBS January through April 2008
• Ubuntu Linux Resources – a collection of tutorials and random other pages that will help Ubuntu users.
• Gridjit: A Social Portal for Twitter – The Twitter view that springnet sees.
• Podcast Generator – Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution – Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also feat

• Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Scripted Re-Mark – Batch Editor for Bookmarks – manage your bookmarks stored at del.icio.us. one hit batch mode re-tag bookmarks en masse, make wholesale changes to URLs or update descriptions in bulk. toggle public/private sharing settings and mass delete bookmarks.
• The Austin Chronicle: Calendar: Recommended: 2008-01-03 – 2008-01-23 – austin chronicles calendar of events
• Patrick Timpone – new age talk show host on KLBJ Austin, healthy living for a healthy planet
• springnet – CommunityWalk – A place for spring.net website users to get to know each other geographically.
• Refresh Austin / GeekAustin Happy Hour | door64.com – For January, the GeekAustin Happy Hour moves downtown to the exceptional J Blacks. Some of you may remember that PhizzPop was hosted here last month. Well, Whurley and LinearB liked JBlacks so much that we decided to host the next few GA happy hours there
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• barton springs – Google Image Search – images of austin, texas barton springs
• Viddler.com – Search results for “springnet” – Global tags » videos tagged with ?springnet?
• Austin City Limits Festival – Austin City Limits Festival Photo Gallery from the official site. Pictures by Paul Terry Walhus on spring.net/aclfest/
• Tanya Streeter – Like whales and dolphins, humans can take a breath and descend beneath the surface of the waves to experience the surreal silence and beauty of any aquatic environment.
• Tanya Streeter – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Tanya Streeter, born January 10, 1973 in Grand Cayman, is a world champion free-diver, who made her first important breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo’s Women’s No Limits diving record by 10 feet, achieving a total depth of 370 feet (1
• PC World – Browse CES – The Microsoft chairman’s last CES keynote features a parody video and preview of multimedia products in the works.
• springnet Videos, springnet Music, springnet Photos on IMEEM – I’ve installed 3 ubuntu servers in the past 3 days.  If you go to http://delicious.com/springnet/ubuntu you can see some of the references I used in these installs.  I think ubuntu is great. What are your experiences with ubuntu?  How are y
• springnet on imeem – My page on imeem…. that goofy picture of me with the Longhorns hat the the grey wings was taken at SXSW by a nice lady at the imeem booth. Imeem is cool. Pioneering socialnet.
• LinPVR.org – linux pvr or personal video recorder or dvr digital video recorder
• Talk Digger Search for: “springnet” – IBM didn’t see it coming, but Microsoft does. They are smart. That’s why we’re aligned with them. What is this perfect storm? What happened to IBM?
• FlamingText: Free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations. – sique on jtv suggested I use this to generate my banner on http://justin.tv/austintexas… I did. It worked
• VLC media player – Overview – VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multi
• OVGuide: Online Video Guide – It’s what’s ON the Web – site recommended by a friend on jtv… the ultimate guide to online video… it’s what’s on baby
• Why should you use Runscanner? – Runscanner is a completely free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs. You can use runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems.

• Tweet Scan – Real-time Twitter Search – real time search of twitter for springnet
• One Blog Many Categories or Many Blogs? – Am I better off having one blog site with multiple categories or multiple blog sites highlighting specific interests??
• Resources to Make Money Online | TechnoTarget – Review Me pays to review products and services on your site. You control what you review. Submit your site for inclusion into our ReviewMe publisher network. One example of many ways to make money online. *****
• SocialPicks: social stock picks & research – Good Ideas By People You Trust SocialPicks is a community where stock investors exchange ideas and track performance.
• Web Worker Daily – rebooting the workforce, daily tips on working on the web
• KillerStartups.com? – The Next Big Thing on the Internet is here. You pick it – review 30+ internet startups per working day. Vote for the one you think will be a killer. Vote for http://searchslides.com eh!
• Bootstrapper » The 100 Daily Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs – The 100 Daily Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs Monday, July 23, 2007 at 7:23pm by admin These days, it seems that almost everyone has a blog, so it?s often hard to separate what?s really worth reading from what isn?t. 100 best sites

• Invite Share – Everyone is invited! – some kind of crunch network
• Twitter Groups! – Twitter Groups allows you to tag your followers into different groups. Then you can send a message to those groups without needing to send the message to each person one at a time!
• Command Shift 3 – save websites you like
• ITunes: Multiple libraries in iTunes 7 – The recently-released iTunes 7 has added the much wished-for ability to manage multiple music libraries, and the Klavr weblog points out how simple it is
• AV-Comparatives – antivirus program reviews and comparisons, heard about this from chief twit Leo
• Ian’s Shoelace Site – Shoe Lacing Methods – typical cross-section of traditional and alternative lacing methods that I’ve either found or created or that have been sent to me by web site visitors.
• MyShutterspace – Photo Sharing & Photography Forums – MyShutterspace is a social network for digital photography enthusiasts. This is your place to connect with other digital photographers (both amateur and pro), share photos, videos & stories, get critiques on photos, and discuss photography techniques and
• The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking – The Top 24 Sites » 10e20 – Search, Design & Social – the folks over at eBizMBA have put together a list of the top 20 social bookmarking sites. They based their results on data on a combination of Compete.com and Quantcast data

• habibbijan.com – series of reviews on free antivirus programs
• Data Recovery Software – File System Utilities – Image creation uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe “hot images” even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a usele
• The Best Bike Route Between Austin and Bastrop – best bike route between Bastrop and Austin
• Loudtalks ? keep talking. Two way radio over p2p – Loudtalks brings voice back to the internet communications. It’s a little application, which allows you to talk to your friends or colleagues instantly with a single touch of a button. Think walkie talkie. It’s faster than text chat and more convenient th
• Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008 | Technology | The Guardian – Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008
• Loic Le Meur Blog – Wew, that Seesmic review is a Christmas gift ! Thank you Bobbie Johnson to consider that Seesmic will be a hit website in 2008 even though we are still building it.

• Wireless Networking – Wireless networking news, publications and reviews
• Home > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter – Tweeterboard is a way of looking at who is influential on Twitter based on their conversations with other Twitter users. There are other services, like Twitterposter, that base influence on how many followers you have. Tweeterboard looks at who talks to u
• Political Base – Election and Candidate Information – Wacky Utterance of the Day: Huckabee and Rice
• ProductWiki, unbiased product reviews and information – ProductWiki is the resource for free, unbiased product reviews and information written and maintained by the community.
• Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Weave – One important area for exploration is the blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services.
• The Crunchies 2007 – Celebrating the best of internet and technology innovation – The 2007 Crunchies is our first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
• Fimoculous.com – misc – Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading – Last year I decided to put on twist on my annual “best blogs” post [2002, 2003, 2004] by taking a turn toward the obscure. it makes little sense to write a post arguing that Huffington Post is better or worse than DailyKos — or Cute Overload.
• Google Talk Gadget – chat on google talk … we’re live at http://justin.tv/austintexas from Hope BC Canada today
• Gmail Notifier – The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.

• List of Web 2.0 Lists – Anyway here is (in no particular order) a list of the web 2.0 lists and other helpful product data that I’ve found on the Web.
• Learn Touch typing online for free – 10-fast-fingers.com – touch typing
• Portable laptop desks, laptop stands and laptop tables to use on trips, in meetings, in airports and cars. Sitting or standing height . Largest desk, packs small, strong – stabile and liteweight. – Model 1500 Specifications: Non-Folding. Fits inside cases or carry in your free Tote Bag. 15 inches wide x 13 inches deep. Weight: 1.75 lbs. Materials: Choice of durable black plastic or solid wood tops (cherry finish). Adjustable leg and clamp are anodiz
• Top 100 Tools for Learning – TOP 100 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2007 By Popularity
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