Jott

http://jott.com/Default.aspx

Jott is a service that translates your voice into text. You call up Jott from your telephone and create a message. It will then translate your voice into text. It also keeps the original recording, so you can listen to that later, too. You can have it send your message as an email to you, someone else, or a group of email addresses. It can also post to a number of services such a Blogs, Twitter and Yahoo Groups.

Pidgin IM client

http://www.pidgin.im/

Pidgin is an open source multi protocol IM client - which means you can connect several of your IM accounts into one piece of software. There are several of these products out there, however, the reason this is espeically attractive to me is that it's the first free multi protocol IM client that also includes (again, for free) GroupWise Messenger - a product that our staff still use at our library.

VuFind & Fish4info

http://www.vufind.org/
http://fish4info.org

Yesterday, we had a great demo from Chris Harris of Genessee Valley BOCES on their fish4info.org site.
Fish4info (still in the early stages of production, but soon to be open source) and VuFind (open source, released this summer) are products that will allow libraries to essentially replace an ILS's poor user interface OPAC by displaying catalog data in an easier format for patrons to use that also integrates Web 2.0 features. While Fish4Info is tailored more towards K-12 school libraries, VuFind is more of a broad spectrum product. Our library has also been working on a similar grant project and if everything goes right *fingers crossed* will start creating an open source product in the coming months. Exciting stuff!

Twitterverse

http://www.twitterverse.com/

Check out Twitterverse -
It's a visual interface of tags from recent twitter updates.

Cool Tool of the day: StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar for Firefox or IE. It's almost like a cross between a social site, Digg, and Tivo. You specifiy what your interests are and click the StumbleUpon button and are presented with a random web site that it thinks you'll like. Like it? Click the thumbs up button. Hate it? Click the thumbs down button. It's that simple. Over time, you train the toolbar on what you like and don't like and it will gradually give you sites that you'll probably be interested in.
You can connect with friends, share sites with them, review sites, and recommend sites - and that's not all.
A time waster for sure, but a cool tool nonetheless.