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Regards less of which side of the fence you were on, it was an amazing campaign season, and the country has seen the first glimpses of the true power of the internet and social networking. My fiance’ attended letter writing campaigns with people she didn’t know by organizing through a face book like app from the candidates page, and she made secure micro-donation via the web and text message made popular by Howard Dean. This was the infrastructure that propelled Obama to “President Obama”

Then of course, there is the obvious step forward for our nation in electing – decisively – our first African American president. The Washington Post headline reads “Change Has Come“. I think this can be read on so many level, I couldn’t possible cover them here, but, I think it is not only in reference to race, but to how technology will continue to shape our nation, streamline government, and hold those in power accountable though transparency and avenues of communication.

To that end, here are some sites and tools to help you get started with this.

Sunlight Foundation – The Sunlight Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) educational organization, supports, develops and deploys new Internet technologies to make information about Congress and the federal government more accessible to the American people. Through its projects and grant-making, Sunlight serves as a catalyst to create greater political transparency and to foster more openness and accountability in government.

Open Congress – OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress.

Open Secrets – An organization that aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more responsive government.

Backboard is a simple web app designed to help you collect feedback on whatever you are working on from friend, co-workers, classmates, or anyone:- Marketing teams can collaborate and gather feedback on graphic designs.

- Web designers can get client feedback on their latest designs.

- Students can discuss and evaluate ideas for class projects

Backboard can gather feedback on documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
WPD, ODT, Text and PDF), images (GIF, JPEG and PNG), web pages or other
URLs, and free-form text.

Check it out here: http://www.getbackboard.com
More info here: http://www.getbackboard.com/pages/faq

Get Feedback on your Project.

Ever realized you needed a document that was on a different computer
from the one you were on? With FolderShare, you can access your files
from anywhere.

• Keep all your files in sync
• Use
  FolderShare to create a mirrored image of your most important folders -
  like your Favorites, Pictures, and Documents – so they’re the same on
  all your computers.

• Sharing files is easier than ever
• Sharing
  with friends, co-workers, and family is easy when you add and update
  files in a shared library. Large files? Not a problem – FolderShare can
  sync files up to 2 GBs in size. And it works on both Mac and PC.

• Get to your files instantly when you’re away from home
• Install FolderShare on all your computers, and you can access all your files from any computer on the Internet.

Microsoft Foldershare is what we finally settled on after months of trial and error. Hopefully, in us sharing this with you and your business, you can get to syncing with a bit less effort then us. Best of all, unlike many of the other apps we tried, this one is completely free. The only draw back we can find is that there is a 10,00 file limit on a single sync point, but you can get around that by syncing the underlying folders separately. If you need help, as always, feel free to contact us @ 1.866.516.1576 for all your online consulting needs.

A brand spanking new release came out April 22nd and you can Install Foldershare for Windows by following this link.

Please let us know what you think…

If you are anything like us, we use Google for everything. The overwhelming majority of the time, you get what you need. Sometime, its nice to diversify a bit, and use a slick little app with a very specific purpose, instead of using the sledge hammer that is Google.

www.sullr.com

Sullr is a tool for obtaining information from telephone lines in
reverse mode. Very quickly, it will allow you to know the name of the
person responsible and find on the map the address where he is. They have a working version for the iphone as well.

Give it a try, and tell us what you think.

So Simple, but I think I start every entry about a cool new app this way. It is true, the simplest ideas are usually the best. I want to introduce your to Bringo (http://www.nophonetrees.com) their headline reading:

Tired of dialing 1-800 numbers and not being able to get through to a human who can help you?

BRINGO gets your through with no effort on your part.

Here’s how it works (from Bringo Website):

1. Find the company you’d like to call by category (credit cards, mortgages, loans, health care)
2. Enter your phone # (we will never disclose your phone number to anyone, not even your mother!).
3. Wait a few seconds while we navigate the phone tree.
4. When we call you back, pick up your phone and you’re done. No more phone trees.

Ready to get started?

• Click here to list all categories of companies
• Click here for an alphabetical list of all companies

Technorati Tags: bringo, web 2.0

Nothing like being able to post about anything, at anytime, directly from the best browser around, Mozilla Firefox…

This post is being done directly from Firefox to test the latest and greatest blogging tool out there, ScribeFire.

I try not to blog too much about what has already been talked about, but could only find one article on gizmoz.com, and since I have been playing with it extensively this morning, thought I would share a bit, and hopefully solicit some feedback.

So to start, what is gizmoz? In short – it is a service that will allow you to generate a talking avatar. You can upload a picture of your face and it will build a 3-D image. It also allows you to put voice to your digital communications. Personal service to the comical extreme. For most of us, once you complete the easy process of building your first (what they call) character-based visual expression, it may come out looking like a dysfunctional mini-clone; eerily reminiscent of the 80’s pop culture icon Max Headroom. So can their be a legitimate business application to this?

I have decided to experiment.

I have produced a short 20 second video clip (see the sidebar to the right) that can be played upon entering my website. From this point on, for the next month or so, I will monitor my analytics account to see if I can keeping more people on my site for longer. Take a look:

Now – I didn’t use myself, since I was trying to give this a hint of professionalism and no matter how many different pictures I used, I couldn’t get it to a point that didn’t make me want to reconsider this experiment. Maybe I am just digitally self conscious, but I’d rather use one of the provided (and admittedly better looking) provided pictures.

Does does this work? We shall see. I will have statistics next month, but in the mean time, take a look, let me know what you think, and if you could ever see using this as an application in your business.

Justin

inspiring design, llc.

202-552-1825

The following is a list of 40+ online web 2.0 websites, applications, and communities, some that are in beta (or even alpha) development stages. If you know if one we missed, by all means tell us, this should be an organic, ever growing list.

Home Values

Zillow

It allows anyone to find rough estimates of the valuation of their home by searching comparable properties. While values are not always accurate, the site continues to get it better.

RealEstate ABC

Beta property valuation tool competing directly with Zillow. It uses Google Maps in its technology mashup and allows you to do cool things like adjust values of properties given certain market conditions.