A widget is a stand-alone application that can be embedded into third party sites by any user on a page where they have rights of authorship (e.g. a webpage, blog, or profile on a social media site). Widgets allow users to turn personal content into dynamic web apps that can be shared on websites where the code can be installed. For example, a “Weather Report Widget” could report today’s weather by accessing data from the Weather Channel, it could even be sponsored by the Weather Channel. Should you want to …

Speckle is an application that takes a new look at the age old idea of task management using to-do lists. The old checkboxes on to-do lists have now been revamped a bit by adding a few more to make it a little more precise and making it easier for the user to sort and organize their tasks list. There are now checkboxes titled ‘started,’ ‘done,’ ‘checked,’ and ‘live’. Tasks can be added not just generally, but also under specific projects and such, as a project may comprise several other sub-tasks …

Getting things done is hard in this modern world of distractions, and most tasks fall to the formidable opponent named procrastination. Enter: Incentify.it. Incentify.it is a web tool designed to help you reach your goals by letting you set up a proverbial ‘carrot on the stick” to keep you pushing towards your goals. At its core Incentify.it is a fully featured to-do web app, but Incentify.it is not just another to-do web app, they offer something more; an incentive. Their mantra, ‘Buy cool stuff and get things done’ really explains …

TripTwit is a new startup website based in New York that captures the twitter streams of various travel service providers (hotels, airlines, etc.) and general travel agencies, along with those of blogs, websites and travel experts. It consolidates in one location a stream of real-time deal offers.
The core of the site is simply the consolidated stream from this large variety of sources. On a recent visit to the site, it showed tweets within the last hour offering hotel deals in Europe, an all-inclusive Mexico vacation, and rental cars. Airfare deals …

YouTube has become one of the most popular video-sharing sites. Stringing all the videos you’ve posted together is a great way to share your projects, family videos or favorite music videos.  However, it isn’t always convenient to share an individual playlist you’ve made on YouTube. That’s where the website TubeSnack comes in. TubeSnack is a website that allows the user to build customized playlists, to embed and share videos from both YouTube and share these playlists. One of the great advantages of TubeSnack is that it’s free and allows a …