30 online social tools we use and recommend

By Raj Anand | November 26, 2008

As a social media junkies, we tend to live and breathe social tools. Some of these tools might be of interest to our readers. Let us know if you find them useful:

Multimedia

1). BBC iPlayer- Watch BBC programmes

2). Favtape - Listen to music in your browser. The successor of Muxtape

3). YouTube - Watch Movies and Listen to music videos

4). Vimeo - Mainly watch geeky videos

5) Flickr- Upload pictures and share with friends

6) Picnik - Modify Flickr pictures in the browser

Documents and Presentation

7) Scribd - To upload White papers and sometimes presentations

8) Slideshare - Upload powerpoint or keynote presentations

9) Google Docs - Share and collaborate of documents

RSS and Share

10) Netvibes - RSS feed reader

11) ShareThis - Badge which we use to share web pages through del.icoi.us, digg etc

12) Del.icio.us - Bookmarking favourite links

Project Management and client interaction

13) Basecamp - Tool we use for client and team collaborations

14) Trac - Tool we use to maintain a Wiki for clients and developers can link this with SVN (i.e. subversion)

15) OSTicket - For customers to log tickets to complete an outstanding task

16) Backpack - For client mood boards and wiki style presentations

17) Protoshare - Quickly mock up wireframes for clients and produce specification document

Sales and Marketing

18) Twinkle - Micro blog through twitter using the iPhone

19) TweetDeck - Microblog through twitter on MAC or PC. Also excellent to discover conversations

20) Highrise - To track the progress of sales enquiries online

21) Wordpress - Blogging online, not only for Kwiqq but also for our clients

22) LinkedIn - To connect with colleagues and business community online

23) Jajah - Speak to our client abroad through our landline (for free)

24) Google Talk - To chat and video conference with clients and developers online (through browser or application)

Tools for Development

25) Zend Framework - A framework we use to develop sites for our clients

26) Joomla - We also use joomla for client CMS (Content Management System)

27) OpenId - Preferred way to provide login and identity maintenance for our clients

28) Google Calendar - Tools we use to manage our development teams time and activities

Tools I use personally

29) AroundMe - Fantastic iPhone application find restaurants, banks and other venues close to you

30) BabelFish - Translate text from almost any major language to English and viceversa

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2 Comments

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    Brian Kissel
    Posted November 26, 2008 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    For any of your readers who would like to implement OpenID (#27 on your list), there are good open source libraries at http://www.openidenabled.com or a free hosted implementation service at http://rpxnow.com

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    Daria
    Posted November 27, 2008 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    Hi, it’s a great collection. I will look into a couple of those. By the way, have you seen our tool? It’d be cool to find out your opinion.

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