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POPSChangeToLink: post text or HTML snippets Works like ShortText.com (with a spiffier design) -- if you need to put a little bit of information online, you can just enter it in the text box, hit "Create page," and presto, you've got a link you can give people.
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POPSManage email, calendar, and contacts with your voice For $6 a month, subscribe to a service that can access your POP3 email, read it to you over the phone, and allow you to dictate replies. Very cool. Also lets you manage contacts and calendar, though I'm not yet sure I get how that part works.
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POPSSeveral handy web-based video tools I clipped this because it can convert a YouTube video (as well as videos from other sites) into an animated GIF. Which could come in handy someday, I guess. There are a couple other tools at the site. It looks pretty shady, but they seem to work.
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POPSSexy chatbots deployed to steal your personal information! Some evil geniuses have developed an automated chat program that convinces people it's a real cybersex partner and convinces them to reveal personal information, which can then be used for ID theft, or it lures them to a fake malware-laden website. Called "CyberLover." Only in Russia thus far, but look out.
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POPSGreetQ: automate your Christmas-card list Heh. Sending all those Christmas cards a little too much of a pain for you? Here's a service that'll do it all for you. You can personalize your cards and "queue" them by date and occasion (e.g., send out a card for so-and-so's birthday every year), so you never have to even think about your friends again (okay, maybe that's a little cynical).
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POPSOld-school journalism + blogging, social networks: synergy? Linked from Dave Winer's blog, I think. A cool, experimental idea: connect beat reporters with an online circle of stakeholders joined by modern net-based social-networking tools. In this scenario, the "new" "Web2.0" model of information distribution doesn't kill old-school journalism but reinvigorates it.
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POPSBrowsable Greek New Testament Handy resource for anyone who wants to browse the Greek NT online (front: http://snipr.com/1sy0o). It's quick, simple, and there seem to be some good reference tools built in. It's built with GIF images for text (apparently one image per word), which is strange and prevents any copy-pasting. It is also about to be taken offline, but it looks like it will probably be hosted somewhere else (http://www.kimmitt.co.uk/gnt/gnt.html) thereafter.
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POPSThe tools our students use Alan November argues that educators should take advantage of students' high comfort level with networked tools. Via Laura Blankenship's tweets (that's GeekyMom to you): http://snipr.com/1ne3v.
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POPSSnipURL 2.0 is here: the best URL-shortening service There's a million of these URL-shortening services. Other good ones are the classic http://TinyURL.com, the subdomain-based http://notlong.com, and the newer, simple, quick http://rurl.org, and the now-popular http://urlTea.org, which lets you "semanticize" the shortened URL by including descriptive text at the end. To me, SnipURL -- especially the new release -- beats them all in terms of features and ease of use. Every once in a while the site goes down, though, which strikes fear in my heart.
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POPSOnline graphics generators for your site: roundup Pete Cashmore of Mashable posts a roundup of tools for automating the design of your site. Emphasis is on sleek CSS layouts, pale gradients, and faux-3D reflection effects, so you get a nice Web 2.0 look overall. Can't imagine I'd ever need to use this, but I think I will probably get stuck redesigning my department's website, so ... maybe I will after all.
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POPSCool Tools on printing your own books Kevin Kelley reviews several of the better "personal bookprinting" services. These are amazingly flexible and reasonable in price. You can even print your blog, if you want to.
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POPSRegex syntax reference I've been experimenting with Yahoo! Pipes a little bit (http://pipes.yahoo.com) and you need to understand these things to get a lot of the tricks to work.
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POPSZotero - Online research tool A feature-rich citation manager built on top of Mozilla. Requires FF 2.0 to run. Mainly aimed at heavy users of online bibliographic databases. Getting a lot of hype. I'd like to try it, but I'm not interested in disabling all my FF 1.5.0.7 extensions.
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