Today the makers of Drop.io, a neat  and simple online file sharing service, has just pushed out their Conference.io applet.

To sum things up, Conference.io is:

a package of drop.io’s realtime action specifically designed for when you or your team needs to open a rich media chat feed in literally 2 clicks.  You still have a ton of deep customization options, but this makes it all dead simple to get right into the key functionality for live collaboration

Design Flow

The design of Conference.io helps the applet live up to the 2 clicks standards. Creating a private chat was a simple as assigning a custom url for your chat and clicking “drop it.” Of course, there are additional settings, though mainly privacy settings.

Once you’ve created your chatroom you can share files of up to 100mb, notes, and links. The chatroom also features its own voicemail and conference call numbers, even an email address, allowing you to send as much information as you want the chatroom without needing to stay within its digital walls. Other features include a firefox addon, fax receiving capabilities, a widget, and the ability to add a file from a URL instead of your computer.

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A Great Tool For Groups And Events

With plenty of ways to manage and interact with the incoming information, Conference.io is definitely a tool that will stay in my collection of useful web apps for groups and events. The service plays well on mobile platforms and you can even add the chatroom to a third party client such as Adium or (possibly) GoogleTalk. Give it a try and let me know you’re thoughts. Feel free to invite me into your chat.

Popularity: 15% [?]

There are plenty of ways to get a healthy (or obsessive) dose of finding out what’s being said about you on the web. There are numerous search engines out there where you can grab an RSS feed and keep up-to-date about when your name or brand has been mentioned. However, none come close to the Addictomatic search engine.
     

Addictomatic: What Does It Do?

Addictomatic is a search engine that provides you with a dashboard, a la Netvibes style, of your search results. Here’s a screencap of the search for "SheGeeks" on Addictomatic:

Sources And Features

Addictomatic displays search results from various other sites and search engines including, Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, ASK, Technorati, Bloglines, YouTbe, WordPress, Del.icio.us, Digg, and surprisingly, Summize, a Twitter search engine.

You can personalize the results by moving around the source boxes for each module or deleting irrelevant sources.

Bookmark your results and come back to them whenever you’re ready to feed your ego.

Beneficial To The Egotistical

This is a cool service for ego maniacs or for those with a handful of keywords to watch who are looking for better ways to manage their searches in one place. You can personalize which sources are listed. However, the bummer is that you can’t add more personal sources for search.

Popularity: 4% [?]

One of the first things some people on Twitter will do when huge conferences are in effect is start unfollowing those that will Twitter about the conference. Of course there are various why. For example, some don’t want to know what they’re missing out on. How does?
  

Twitter Snooze App

Well now, there’s a great solution floating around, which is an app called Twitter Snooze. Twitter Snooze allows you to type in a list of "Tweeters" you’d like to snooze and set the length of snooze time based on the amount of days you’d like to ignore them.

Who is Twitter Snooze For?

Well, as aforementioned, it’s great for unfollowing conference Tweeters until the conference is over. However, the website notes more devious reasons to use Twitter Snooze:

It’s a nice way to get back at someone for saying something stupid… give them the silent treatment ;)

It’s a good way to ignore someone that just flooded your timeline for no good reason… but it was just a one-time offense and doesn’t merit permenant [sic]unfollowing.

While that would be pretty funny, let’s not be petty on Twitter. I think we have enough of that in real life. Don’t you?

Be warned that Twitter Snooze sends out an email to the user when you stop ignoring them (follow/unfollow effect). So, if you don’t want them to know, I suggest moving on. Also, your passwords are stored in their database, though they are deleted when they are no longer needed (when is that?).

Popularity: 4% [?]