YourSite.nu is a web site where members post and review each other’s web sites, blogs and forums. It also has its own discussion board and web development tutorials.

The site lists its membership at about 10,000 but I am not sure how many of these members are actually active on the site. Each time I’ve visited the site there have been about 30 or so people on it.

The site requires you to do three reviews of other member’s web sites before posting your own web site(s) for review. The feedback received ranges from anywhere between “cool site” to a dissertation on the fundamentals of proper web design layout.

The site is useful for getting basic feedback, but its appears to be more of a social community that a fully professional web development community – which might just be for the better.

eBay has just launched a new site called eBay Neighborhoods that contains over 600 small social networks, each centered around a unique product. Each network includes content pulled from eBay including blogs, reviews, etc. and also allows users to add new content such as forums, photos, etc.

Only time will tell how these networks will stack up against other social shopping networks. But with its current user base, if done correctly, eBay could soon be the top player in the field.

Diino is an online service that provides online file storage accounts where users can store, access and share their computer files of any type and size in a secure environment. Diino accounts are very useful for users with a large number of music or photo files or for users looking to store personal and confidential documents in a safe location online. Diino offers accounts with various storage amounts. 2GB storage accounts from Diino are free.

MySpace is planning to rename its current video sharing service and provide it through a new web site at myspacetv.com. Myspacetv.com is currently in beta and allows visitors to submit and watch videos even if they are not MySpace members.

It appears the move is to give MySpace videos brand name recognition apart from the MySpace name. This of course, is an attempt to compete better with YouTube, the leader in online video sharing.

My first impression of MySpaceTV is that it has nothing unique that YouTube does not already have. Maybe in time, new features will be added, but does it really matter? It seems that every popular video can be found in a hundred locations online. Is there really any need for yet another “video” service?

Apparently MySpace news is meant to be taking on Digg and after reading the countless news stories (many from Fox) I almost believed that my beloved Digg, maybe had a competitor.

Yet these evil thoughts were soon crushed when I actually decided to take a look at the site to do a review. Two words came to my head “This Blows”

The Myspace News service gets its stories from “trusted” sources. Yet the quality and range of stories left a lot to be desired. Maybe its just me. The “Top Stories” located on the front page included news on an “American Idol” getting a hair cut and two other stories, that surprise surprise were related to Fox.

MySpace news allows users to vote on stories. Now you would expect that a site that has millions of users would have no trouble with people voting on stories. Yet the top story on the frontpage had 9 votes (probably from Tom and Mr Murdoch) and with average of 2. Maybe the “bimbo” target demographic hasn’t quite figured out the complexities of submitting a vote.

So in conclusion, if youre after the latest news on a celebrity haircut or another child being “rescued” by Madonna then MySpace News if for you. However, if you like a like a little more….quality, you can’t go past Digg.

Technorati Tags: MySpace, News, Digg

Now not only can you buy tees online, you can create, mashup, vote and share them. Here are some of the top tee sites online.

Threadless -  These guys combine shopping with a social network.  You can submit designs and slogans to be scored by the community.  Those that rank well, are added to the shop.  You can keep going back to this site and find new and exciting designs.

InnerTee - What do you get if you combine social networking, mashups and t-shirts? InnerTee of course.  To create a tee, simply mashup the available artwork and your left with a truly unique design.  Once finished, add it to the shop for others to buy.

T-Shirts Countdown - This is kind of like a top list site but for tees.  Anyone can add t-shirts to the site and users can vote for the best designs.  Could do a with a better design/layout and a better script.

T-Shirt Hell - Here you will find the funniest, rudest and crudest tees online. I got a laugh just by browsing through the shirt designs. Shirts are priced at around $18 and there is a huge selection.

Busted Tees - Not as crude as T-Shirt Hell but just as funny.  Some of the tees are priced as low as $9.99 which is awesome value.

Defunker - This seems to be the more serious side of Busted Tees.  Its run by the same people and offers the same quality.  These tees will set you back $20+

LMNO Tees - More funny tees in the feel of Busted Tees.  Not much more I can say

HotBins - Although you cant create the designs, you can vote on the ones you woud like to see printed.  Tees are $12 with free shipping.  Bargain.

SpreadShirt - If you’re looking to design (and sell) your own tees then you can’t go past Spreadshirt.  They use a flash based design tool which allows you to rapidly create t-shirts plus you can have your very own shop.  Think CafePress but with quality.

Zazzle - This site looks very similar to Cafepress.  Choose from a range of different tee designs and styles.

99dogs - Although it has a horrible design this looks to be the only site that offers custom tees as well as accepting PayPal.  So if you dont have credit card this may be your only option.

With the looming elections, Sparkmeter.com could become a very valuable site.  The site allows you to rate articles based on their bias.  The effect of such a site could be profound if it wasn’t for one major flaw.

The people rating the articles will have there own biases and therefore how can anyone truly make an informed rating.  Is it possible to find news without bias?  The site is devided into three article categories; leaning left, leaning right and objective.  Maybe it should just be Pro Bush and Against Bush, as that is how it seems to play out.

I encourage you to take a look, and tell me if you think a site like this can work.  I dont think it will

If you read this blog regularly you will know that I favorite “simple” apps.  HiTask.com falls into this category and has created a very nice Task Management App.

Now there are plenty of these types of apps available online but I fell for HiTask’s great use of ajax.   This is one of those web apps which makes you feel like you’re using a desktop application.

HiTask is free and allows you to manage meetings, tasks, notes, birthdays and reminders, plus team management and a iCalendar feed.

Technorati Tags: task managment, web app, web 2.0

Noovo.us is suspicisouly similar product to scrap blog where you can create “good looking” webpages in a desktop app enviroment.

So why isn’t this taking the world by storm?  Well they have failed in one major area - the web pages you build can only be viewed in Internet Explorer.  I also have a another issue with the app, it pre-loads the page using a “loading” message.  This is not only annyoing but I bet it doesnt do any favors for SEO.

So I guess i’m just going to have to wait until Scrapblog comes out of private beta.

Oh so close!

For a while I have been looking for a way to aggregate all my online activities (blogs, del.icio.us, flickr, digg etc) into a stream on this blog. For an idea of what a “digital stream” is take a look at Emily Chang’s.  There are a couple of wordpress plugins available but they are new and pretty much…..dont work.

I came across Jaiku.com which offers exactly the type of thing I was looking for, bar one slight problem, I cant have it hosted on my own site!   In fact Jaiku would be absolutely perfect if the added the ability to embed the stream.  Nudge Nudge.

Jaiku is a site I would usually recommend but I have encountered quite a major bug/problem - I can’t login.  At first I thought I might have a bad password/username but after double checking the welcome email (twice) it still wont work.  Further more when I try and use the “Forgot My Password” feature it doesn’t recognize my email or username.

I was able to login at first and start creating my Digital Stream which can be found at anthony.jaiku.com. So why am I winging about it here? Its amazing how quickly problems are fixed when posted on this blog!

Check it out here and then whine about it here