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TipBin Launches Tip Sharing Community
TipBin is a recently launched web site that developer Christian Cantrell touts as "Yahoo! Answers, but without the questions." The idea behind TipBin is that people will share, recommend, and discuss tips on any topic without prompts. That could include things like how to find better airline deals to how to refill printer ink cartridges to how to cook a better bundt cake.The site is organized by tags and members can bookmark their favorite tips. Tips can be sorted by most recent, most recommended, most bookmarked, or most discussed, and they can be searched."Bacon is a delicious breakfast meat that is sure to please any guest (errr almost any.) However, it is important to remember the following: * While cooking the bacon, you should cover as much of your skin as possible. More simply put, never cook bacon naked." -- Tip from An_advriderTipBin immediately brought to mind Daytipper, which is a similar, though more polished, tips community. There are some subtle differences...

Popular Facebook App Makes Jump to MySpace
The extremely popular Where I've Been Facebook app is today launching a MySpace widget, making it perhaps the first application developed specifically for Facebook that has made the jump to another platform. The app's creator, Craig Ulliot, also recently formed Where Ive Been, LLC to manage the application and its growing networking of users.According to Where I've Been, the application is the most popular travel networking app on Facebook with 2.6 million users (though as of today, it was ranked second in the travel category using Facebook's newer active users metric behind TripAdvisor's "City's I've Been To" app). Where I've Been is adding 30,000 new users every day -- not bad for a company launched in June.MySpace users can add the widget to their MySpace profiles from the company's web site. Judging from the site, which reference features like a travel blog and global travel guide, Where I've Been is planning to expand beyond just MySpace and leverage its popularity to...

Forward Users to Multiple Sites with URL Split
URL Split is a new service that allows web developers to create a single short URL that forwards to more than one destination -- seven destinations, actually. For example, http://www.urlsplit.com/UbbWn4Uh forwards to any one of the Read/WriteWeb network blogs. Why would anywone want to forward to multiple sites from a single URL?As developer Dan Grossman explains on his blog, the service grew out of a frequent request from customers of his popunder traffic resale business. "Every few weeks one of my advertising customers asks if they can split the hits from their ad campaign among multiple URLs without buying multiple campaigns," Grossman said.This site is smart for Grossman for two reasons: 1. listening to your customers is always a good idea, and 2. whenever you sign up for an account with URL Split, you're asked to opt-in to a mailing list to receive offers about his other web applications and services. Further, URL Split also provides users with statistics, broken down...

Delicious Preview - Next Gen Search For Yahoo?
The next-gen Delicious (sans dots) was released as a private preview today. I got an invite and have been poking around. Techcrunch got the exclusive on the story, so they have a full review up. But in my initial quick tests, a couple of features immediately stood out for me. We've written a number of times before on Read/WriteWeb about how del.icio.us, sorry Delicious, can be used as a very effective search engine. Likewise, Alex Iskold has also written before about Delicious as a recommendation system: "...the del.icio.us approach holds intriguing possibilities of self-organizing classification and recommendation systems. With enough users and more tweaking, social tagging can result in a system that works equally well for books, wine and music."In another post, Alex also called it a "a gem of hidden information". Indeed, given that some of the comments on our 10 Future Web Trends post suggested crowd-sourcing as a future trend worth watching,...

ShareOffice Gets More Apps and ShareMethods Gets iPhone Support
ShareMethods is announcing two new apps to its open standards Web Office suite, ShareOffice, at the Office 2.0 conference today. We reviewed ShareOffice back in May when it launched, noting that it's the world's first open standards online office suite. The two new apps are an online calendar from Jotlet and real-time meeting from Persony. They join the existing ShareOffice apps - online word processing from iNetWord, spreadsheet from EditGrid, and presentation app from Preezo. ShareMethods is also announcing today iPhone support for its on-demand document management service. This will target business users with a need for mobile access to their documents.ShareOffice is different from most other Web Office suite offerings, because it's made up of third party apps that integrate using OpenSAM (Open Simple Ajax Mashup). OpenSAM is a consortium of Web Office vendors and its main output is a set of AJAX programming recommendations, based on open standards, that allow multiple online...