Matt (aka The Mattinator) is a new Web application that let users to post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time. It was developed by a team of Web developers that based in the U.K. As a long-time reader of some Web design magazines printed in the U.K., my first impression on this site is that it was a Web product from the U.K., albeit that I’m having the difficulty in justify their color choices of the elements in their Web design.

Fundamentally, I didn’t see the logic for one Twitter user to open few Twitter accounts, and she desperately need to get a Web application to help her solve the multiple login problems, but the birth of this site has the positive effect on the other end. The way I look at this site, Matt was more of an experiment to see how quickly they could build an entire new site with a programming language, i.e. Python that they’re not familiar with, and a Python Web framework, i.e. Django within four days. And of course, with the Twitter API as well. This will help convince more programmers in using Web frameworks when they’re looking for fast development, and potential users can test out the product in a shorter time frame.

Devunity is the first online social development platform with the focus on simplicity and productivity. As stated on its slogan, “for coders, by coders,” there had been an immediate palpable buzz about its vision, i.e. build a product around the developers.

Devunity is still in Alpha phase, and those developers who want to test the product out must register with them and wait for their invitation. In many instances, Devunity will help Web developers to solve problems in developing applications, especially about how they are interact with each other during the project development life cycle. Currently, this platform supports most of the popular programming languages, including php, python, perl, etc. Imagine you work with your other developers in a long distance, you can invite them online to this platform together in solving the coding problems, debug the code, or even invite some experts you know to solve your application’s current errors.

Meanwhile, Devunity supports the popular API platforms such as Google, Amazon, Flickr, and Facebook. In addition, you’re allow to import your existing code from your version tracking server or Google code account to this platform. Although this platform is built-in with features of tagging, categorization for the structure enhancement of your code, it won’t teach you to write code in a beautiful manner. You still need to write and rewrite the source code and you’ll learn better as day goes by. But with all the discussion, and collaboration you find in using this platform with your other developers, eventually you’ll learn how to program in a more logical, professional and organized way.

FriendFeedSpy is a site that let you keep on watching what is happening on FriendFeed. Though it’s not created by FriendFeed, but it certainly an useful site when you want to track the latest buzz in FriendFeed, instead of visit the FriendFeed Public site, as FriendFeedSpy is considered fetching all the submitted items in nearly real-time, but FriendFeed Public is only fresh the moment you manually click on it.

With this FriendFeedSpy, I probably believe that “Spying” is good to have, just like I read that breaking up or restructuring of corporations is good to have too, in terms of value creation. The existence of this kind of sites will also help FriendFeed handle the flow of the submitted news in a more sophisticated way, but I wondering why FriendFeed didn’t do it itself, instead of letting other party develop for them. Nevertheless, this kind of spy sites is nothing new in the Web industry. Prior to this, there are Twitter Spy, del.icio.us Spy, YouTube Spy, and Digg Spy.

On the site, you can further filter the results appeared in real-time submitted by FriendFeed users into different categories such as news (digg, google reader, etc.) or bookmarking (del.icio.us, diigo, furl, etc.). Additionally, you can either play or pause the results fetching over from FriendFeed, but I don’t think it’s functioning properly at this moment, I’ve tried that. There is also a remote login which allow you to authenticate your account, and hence do some liking or commenting on the news submitted.

Swurl is a new lifestream service that can pull your latest activities from nineteen (currently supported up to 19) Web services into a blog-like format profile page. Upon you sign-up to this Swurl, you can straight away start to aggregate all of your online activities, even they didn’t require you to check your email for email verification. Playing around Swurl know that it play an important role in displaying all of an user’s Web life in a more systematically way and without any doubt, I think they’re in the middle in prospecting the bloggers that run their personal blogs with a focus on the personal life.

Since Swurl is relatively new on the Web, but they capture the opportunities not only supported pictures (Flickr), social network (Facebook), link (Digg), blog (wordpress), video (Youtube), review (Yelp), but they also supported the new frontier of social media such as FriendFeed. What is the main difference you can find on Swurl is the design, a blog-like format, with all the comments are systematically integrate to the user’s profile page. Although the first impression of Swurl profile remind me a lot of my previous blog theme, K2, but you can easily change the heading of the profile so that it suit your online identity. In many instances, social media aggregator like Swurl will help users to pull information through RSS feeds, but you’ll find it useful when you know the information obtained is usable.

One of the built-in features I think is very interesting is the “Timeline” view. From the Timeline view, I knew that I’m not everyday engaging on the Web, I’ve my off-Web real life too. However, the only thing I didn’t like is all the feed entries appeared on the Timeline have been reformatted to the Swurl URL link.

For the Web developers, there is an API of Swurl for them.

Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! service that is able to update an user’s physical location. Currently it is in invite-only since the service was launched in March this year.

Currently, an user can easily update her location through the availability of the twelve (12) third-party applications such as brightkite, DOPPLR, Firebot for Twitter, Loki for IE / Firefox, Plazes and etc. And on the other hand, her location data can also be made available to other location platforms. Put simply, if you seriously want people know where on earth are you, and want people to respond to your location, Fire Eagle can be a great platform for you.

In technological setting, Fire Eagle takes what your input to the third-party applications that they supported and then create more value for you, such as weather information or shopping guide around your location, etc. With respect to the privacy issue, you can either hide your location or even purge your location information completely from the Fire Eagle database, which I think this is a big promise that Fire Eagle provided to everyone of their users. Furthermore, to keep you continue in using the service with faith, there is a Fire Eagle setting that you can select how often you’d like to share your location with others, in the options of the following: once a month, or once in every three months, or never. And you feel you’re in total control of your location data, hopefully your destiny as well.

Mikogo is a new online meeting tool that is a free for download and suitable for users who want to run a Web conference. It was developed by a German technology firm called BeamYourScreen GmbH, and is now being employed by more than 30,000 users worldwide. Users will find this Mikogo packed with the fast performance, albeit that the only limitation for Mikogo is the maximum number of ten (10) participants is imposed on each conference session. To invite other participants in joining a Web conference, the meeting organizer only need to provide the meeting ID to the participants and each participant is given fifteen (15) minute to login to the session.

This software is rich in features during a Web conferencing session such as: share each others’ screens, change presenters, transfer files, lock meeting room and etc. Currently, Mikogo also supports Skype, which mean users can start a Web conference through Skype.

Besides, I also embedded a video on “how to use Mikogo” in the below.

FuelMyBlog is a UK-based blogging community. It was founded based on a very good idea, i.e. to bring all together the bloggers around the world. New bloggers are encouraged to sign-up to this service because they can find some useful services provided by FuelMyBlog, such as forum, as well as get a chance to promote their blogs and hence, elected as “Blog of the Day.” A first look, FuelMyBlog is functioning quite similar to Technorati, only that they’ve taken extra serious actions in fighting and curb the spam blogs. For example, a blogger can add her blog at anytime, but only if her blog is approved by FuelMyBlog, then she will be allowed to add a widget or the friends widget called “fuelroll” onto her blog.

On the FuelMyBlog homepage, you’ll notice that it look like a blog directory, where you can find several different categories range from Art/Design to Books/Writers to Technology, and etc. Each blog appeared to have a small dialog box present to you the brief information of that particular blog when your mouse hover on it, and you can either “Fuel this blog,” i.e. vote up, “Snuff this blog,” i.e. vote down, View this blog, or Add to friends of that blog. To encourage bloggers to participate on FuelMyBlog, they also organize the competition and bloggers can win prizes from their creative content.

More information can be found on a video embedded below, CEO Kevin Dixie talked about FuelMyBlog.

YouPublish is a publishing platform which allowed users to publish any type of digital file, whether it is in the written, audio, video, or software format or in any combination and sell it for a price tag or for free. It went live in May this year, and upon you sign-up for this platform, you’ll be given a unique sub-domain as your referral link, and you can use it to refer people to buy products on YouPublish and you’ll earn a 7.5% commission. Typically, YouPublish pays content providers 50% of their sales, which is relatively higher as compared to some other publishing platforms elsewhere.

On the other hand, buyers that would like to buy the available products on YouPublish can click the “Find a File” and browse the products they want and add them to “My Library.”