Webware100

Category: Entertainment

Eventful is an event-finding and listing service to find fun things to do in your area. What makes the service noteworthy, and particularly useful for the lazy or novice user, is the capability to upload all sorts of schedules and data to the service and have it figure out what you're interested in so it can recommend and keep track of events for you.

Also neat is Eventful's Demand service. Users can rally together to create new events, by effectively creating an online petition for a band, for instance. Eventful doesn't limit these events to … Read more

Category: Productivity

Google Calendar is a free, Web-based calendar. Users can add events in multiple calendars and access them on their mobile phone or using Google's Gmail. Like many other Google apps, Google Calendar has a collaborative nature. Users can share and subscribe to one another's calendars or import them from third-party services that offer things such as national holidays, movie releases, or moon cycles.

In addition to a calendar view that can be toggled by day, week, or month, you can also create your own custom view that lists anywhere from two days to four weeks. To … Read more

Category: Entertainment

Revision3 has more than a dozen original shows that you can get only on the Web. Many are aimed at tech-oriented people, but the service has also spread into cooking and music as well. It's best known for its show Diggnation, the official podcast for Digg.com, where hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht chat about some of the most popular stories that have made the front page of the site each week.

In addition to hosting over a dozen original shows, Revision3 also has an active user group that frequent the forums. Each show gets its … Read more

Category: Media

Photobucket is a photo-sharing and hosting site. It's become incredibly well known for its partnerships and integration with MySpace, who incidentally acquired the service earlier this year. In addition to photo hosting, Photobucket allows its users to upload video clips, which can be edited with an integrated video remixing tool designed by Adobe. Users also can make their own profiles and portfolios to share with others. The service hosts nearly three billion user photos and is one of the most-trafficked photo services on the internet.

Web site: www.Photobucket.com

Webware coverage: Photobucket CEO sounds off on Fox acquisition ; … Read more

Category: Entertainment

You may not even realize it, but you're likely to have seen Homestar Runner or one of the site's characters before. The site is a mix of entertainment and games, together on one site. The site is probably best known for its flagship character Strong Bad, who answers site visitor e-mails with a sense of sarcasm and ridicule. Homestar Runner also has over a dozen other characters who are placed in the site's entertainment games and video clips.

Homestar Runner launched in early 2000, and has since gone on to sell DVDs with cartoon content … Read more

Category: Productivity

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free, Web-based collaborative office suite. Users can make and share documents and spreadsheets with anyone who has a Google account. What makes the service really interesting is that multiple users can be working on the same document at the same time. All files are stored for free on Google's servers, and they can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection.

While you need to be hooked up to the Internet to use these apps, you're also able to export Google Docs & Spreadsheets files to work with Microsoft … Read more

Category: Media

Fotki is a photo-sharing and hosting site. Share your photos with others, or use it as a blogging tool to write about the photos you've taken. Fotki has been around since 1998 and regularly holds photo contests featuring photos submitted and voted on by its members. Winners typically receive a free year of Fotki's premium service, or other prizes.

The service is one of the few photo-hosting sites to offer its members FTP access, as well as daily and monthly traffic reports. Members also can choose to sell their shots, or take them home using the … Read more

Category: Productivity

PayPal was one of the first services to enable people to exchange money online. Popularized--and later purchased--by eBay, PayPal is one of the most widely recognized payment systems on the Internet. It's used in online auctions and stores as a way to control and manage payments.

PayPal has survived over the years by charging fees to its sellers. Buyers in online auctions and those making donations via the service aren't charged these fees.

One of the reasons people choose to use PayPal over other services is its buyer protection and anonymization services, which offer some protection … Read more

Category: Media

Flickr is a popular photo-sharing and hosting service. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime. There's also a pro service that gets you unlimited storage and sharing for about $2 a month, making it one of the cheapest hosting sites around.

Besides sharing your photos, Flickr has an API that has led to some interesting third-party mash-ups. It's also made for some neat ways to integrate Flickr shots into blogs and … Read more