25 Great Web 2.0 Resources You (Perhaps) Never Heard Of

So, we are in the era of everything being web 2.0, and I don’t mean only these sleazy glossy buttons and badges. I am talking about the dynamic applications, the ability to make wonders online and make the internet more interactive, so let’s see what great applications you probably have missed..

Interactive Images and Photo Resources

Dumpr.net – While their logo is not particular web 2.0, they offer a great way to play around with photos – just upload and select the effect you want. Many interesting effects to chose from and the site is integrated with flickr.com. Most of the site is free to use but some effects require to have a paid subscription.

Sumopaint.com

Here you can doodle online, it’s somewhere between paintbrush and Photoshop, very interactive and works in external window, no need to download any program.

PhotoViewr.com

If you are a Facebook junkie, you are going to love this one. While everyone uses the standard in-built gallery facility of Facebook, you can stand out with a splendid 3D flash gallery. All you need to do is add their application to your Facebook account and add images.

Flickr Tools – Flickr is good, but we want more. We want to convert images to flash galleries, make puzzles from our photos, search for Creative Commons content and see what we can use, we want to integrate, optimize and pimp our Flickr profile, and the huge collection of tools offered here should keep you busy for a few days days.

AncestryPress

Very cosy and cute application for bringing your family together – create family trees and albumns online, could be an ideal present for a family member. You need to register to create a project, but don’t worry, it’s free (but printing s not).

Bloggers Tools

BlogRolled.com – Make money with your Blogroll. Similar model to Text-Link-Ads only the process is less painful since you add the links manually (if purchased) and need not add any scripts to your server. Why not, better than keep promoting 7 default link pointing to wordpress.org.

FeedJit.com

I am sure you have seen this one on other blogs, but maybe you didn’t know how to add it. This widget built and offered freely by FeedJit, allows you to show live traffic stats, popular post and display a visual map of visitors. You can add the widget to Blogger, TypePad and Wordpress, as well as customize the colours.

Blogged.com – Submit your blog for more exposure on the Blogged.com and find other great blogs that has interesting stories.

RatingBurner.com – There is a huge informal competition over the FeedBurner readers count and here you can see who has the biggest readers community with subcription trends (up/down and percentage). Submitting your blog to the list takes seconds.

RSSHugger.com This is a new website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in. Through the power of the internet and viral marketing, rssHugger looks to bring blog writers and blog readers closer together.

Wigitize.com – Generate your own widget. Show the latest site updates of any RSS/Atom feed, embedded in your Blog with a few lines of code — fully customizable with CSS.

Online Design Tools

BgPatterns.com

Incredible tool for creating backgrounds online, simple choose colour, shape, scale, rotate and experiment. Very useful for designers who seek a nice background but struggle to find — here is a chance to make your own without any software.

Bomomo.com – Create abstract art online – very engaging and interesting tool for doodling. You can create an abstract image and put it as a header for your website.

jQuery.com

Revolution in themes building – the ThemeRoller tool by jQuery.  Simply choose your style and colors, backgrounds image opacity, font and then download a custom theme file to your computer. Incredibly simple to use for outstandingly neat results.

Adobe’s Kuler – If you are struggling to come up with a professional, juicy yet not eye-blinding colors-scheme for your design, you should definitely try this tool, offered to you by the mighty Adobe.

Icons, Icons, Icons…

IconsPedia.com

Submit and choose from an incredible variety of glossy, high quality Icons, devided into categories.

IconLook.com – Search through a big database of glossy and juicy, as well as tiny and neat icons. You can set desired icon size while searching as well. We don’t recomend to use their tagcloud, you will go crazy..

IconBuffet.com

Choose from a big variety of icons, professional, bold, minimalist, fun, standard, for blogs, and so on.. Many styles for different oocasions, but all are very pro looking.

FreeIconsDownload.com – Aggrigate database of various icons, by different designers.

Iconika.com

One of the most well known Icons designers brings you the freebies.  Quite a few high quality and very original icons to chose from.

Frexy.com

Tons of free icons from the designer behind Frexy.com — all of them are unique, very beautiful, and even though they are what you’d call “web 2.0″, they are by no means cheesy and too glossy, they can be used now and in 20 years from now, they will still look good.

web20badges.com – Oh well, some people still hunt the glossy web 2.0 badges, so if you didn’t staff a few badges on your website while the crazy was still on, here is your chance to do it without any knowledge in design, Photoshop or… or anything else.

Just Cool Tools

subyo.com – With this tool you can find, use and create subtitles for YouTube videos. Quick and easy.

Startyourtube.com – Start your own online video sharing website in a few simple steps.

Orgoo.com – Put all your IM addresses, sms, video chatting in one basket.