30Boxes, the quality / free / ajax calendar, has added colour to tags allowing you to browse through your calendar at a glance and see what your up to. Simply click on ‘Find’, then the box next to the tag and select your colour from the palette.
I really like this calendar and it looks as though they are responding well to the recent calendar release from Google. Continually adding features and pushing the functionality, I hope 30Boxes will be around for a while yet.
Well while not quite a public release, coincidentally I did get an invite to Riya arrive in my mail box today. Much to my delight, after months of waiting, I finally get the chance to try out this new service. I have got to say that this is one of the new ‘Web 2.0′ services (for want of a much better expression) I have been most excited about, one service that could potentially be worthy of all the hype. Riya’s USP is in the facial and text recognition of photos and the ability to auto-tag what you upload.
Riya’s site is down for ‘maintenance’ and if rumours are to be believed they are about to have their grand opening. The evidence is stacking up, even Danny Yound is blogging about the how close they are to launching this potentially excellent service.
For those who don’t know Riya is a facial and text recognition service for your photo’s that could revolutionise photo sharing and tagging – I can’t wait!
Delicious has announced a beta rollout of private bookmarks called ‘Private Saving’. Simply go to your settings and enable the option by clicking on, you guessed it, ‘Private saving’. You will then find the option to make private when you next bookmark a page.
Apart from the obvious, i.e. hiding from people what you definitely shouldn’t be looking at, there are more legitimate reasons for people requesting this feature. For example, hiding logins to company intranets or networks, logins to CMS systems and personally I have always been hesitant to bookmark my banks and other financial institutions for fear of advertising this to the wrong people.
I have blogged briefly about Cocomment before, the excellent comment and conversation tracking service. As a way to track those blog conversations that develop from time to time this genius and if you haven’t signed up you should. With more and more blogging solutions being integrated into this service (now including Flickr and Digg), it has and will continue to become for many, an essential tool. With the majority of comments coming from bloggers is it not already now a major disadvantage for you blog not to be compatible?
