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49 Ideas For Awesome Lenses

Are you ready to make a lens or two?

How about 5 or 10 or 100?! It's pretty easy, non-techy, and of course, free. Right? Right. Sure, to make your lens a real knockout it takes some time, but the point of this lens is to share some ideas for getting started, not for being perfect. This is just a short list of different lenses worth making. Just to get you thinking. There are a gaggle of other ideas you should absolutely make lenses about.

P.S. If this isn't enough to get you going, try stopping by The Squidoodlr: A lens idea generator.

http://www.squidoo.com/lensbrainstorm

DropMocks: Share images instantly

Do you ever want to share some photos, mockups or screengrabs with somebody else online quick and dirty? Go to DropMocks, drag and drop your images, and you are done. You get an instant image gallery that displays in CoverFlow style, along with a short URL to share it.

Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web

While riding the Google Wave, I came across this nice post by Ben Parr on Mashable that talks about how Wave applications can change the web.

1. Wave-Powered Forums

2. Wave-powered Commenting System

3. Wave-Based Content Management System

4. Wave for Customer Support

5. Wave for Education

Check out the article.

Google Sidewiki – a comment engine for the whole web

A new feature on the Google toolbar—which is installed on millions of computers around the world—lets users comment about the content of any web page they visit; the comments are then visible to other toolbar owners when they visit that site (see screenshot to the right). Group product manager Caesar Sengupta tells us the company wants to “help foster and create communities around different web pages” and provide a functionality that is currently missing from most websites.

The feature called Sidewiki appears as a sidebar and allows users to discuss the content of the page currently open in the browser. Users can vote comments up and down, theoretically meaning the "best" comments rise to the top.
The sidebar, which is also to be built into future versions of Google’s Chrome browser, has already angered some content producers. The fear is that if Google adds advertising to Sidewiki it will be making money from content without the original content producers seeing any of it.
Blogging veteran Robert Scoble today described Sidewiki as the "…latest attempt by (a) big company to make money off of my content on my blog."

Talking to PaidContent, Google’s Aseem Sood denied that it planned to monetise the service. "Right now, our goal honestly is to increase the engagement of users on the web". Note the "Right now"; that suggests that if the sidebar is a success it may still see Adsense units being added.

Google is walking a fine line in its efforts to innovate in some areas that have long been the domain of traditional publishers, while not alienating them. Just last week, it introduced Google Fast Flip, a new user interface for online content that lets readers browse through web pages faster. It was widely seen as an effort to collaborate with publishers in order to upgrade the experience of reading news online.

Twouble with Twitters: SuperNews!

I was having a conversation with my colleagues about the "value" of Twitter this morning and we went from technology behind Twitter to the social and business (50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business / Explaining the Impact of Twitter) impact.

Someone pointed to this video on YouTube.... its funny!!!