What it does

Is there a controversial idea or theory you would like to debate? At RiledUp.com you can voice your opinion on controversial topics and engage in a debate with other users who also voice their opinion. In order to create a topic or comment and vote on a debate topic you must be a user. You can browse through the different topic categories and read the two sides and comments as a visitor to the site. When you are a user you can start a debate by posing a question and giving two sides. Users can then vote on which side they agree with and add comments. There are many types of debates on RiledUp confronting topics on religion to technology to health. You can easily find debates that interest you by searching through the categories or the popular tags. You can make friends and enemies with other users. Take a look at the other users’ profiles to see which debates they have participated in and who their friends and enemies are. Express your feelings at RiledUp.com.

In their own words

“Debate and discuss topics in any area. Make friends. Create enemies. Become an authority. These are the issues that matter to you, so make your voice heard and have fun at the same time!”

Why it might be a killer

RiledUp is a fun site. It is great that RiledUp offers users many ways to participate. Users can create their own debate or comment on other debates. The enemies and friends feature is a great way for the community to get to know each other. All of the debates are easy to locate because they are organized into categories and tags.

Some questions

It would be great if users could engage in a live debate by messenger or even webcam. There are many sites and communities in which users voice their opinion and discuss, how will RiledUp.com deal with the competition pose by similar sites?

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What it does

Many sites are adopting the OpenID function which allows internet users to logon to many sites with the same digital identity so that users don’t have to remember 20 different usernames and passwords. IDSelector is a widget that makes it easier for users to login with their OpenID’s. For some internet users the OpenID concept is new and may be a bit confusing for them. IDSelector makes it easier for users to be comfortable with OpenID. IDSelector is a widget that sites with OpenID can utilize to help their site’s users. The IDSelector helps users by giving them a selection of OpenID providers that they can use for the site that they may already have an account with. The IDSelector will remember the OpenID choice that the user chose the next time that user visits the site so they don’t have to repeat the process of signing in. The IDSelector builds the URL the right way; it is smart enough to know how to do this so that the user doesn’t need to figure it out. The IDSelector also knows about the different OpenID providers and their guidelines so that users don’t have to worry about a thing. Adding the IDSelector widget to your OpenID website is easy, it attaches to your existing form. Each website can choose which OpenID providers appear in your selector and in which order. IDSelector gives users a flexible experience and makes using OpenID’s effortless.

In their own words

“It’s all about getting users signed into your website as quickly and efficiently as possible. It achieves this by providing a simple, consistent, provider neutral interface, and by educating the user about OpenID during the sign in process. In short, it makes OpenID easier for the end user and benefits both the relying parties and OpenID providers.”

Why it might be a killer

OpenID’s are becoming more and more popular on websites and the IDSelector is a great way to ensure that users will continue to be active on your site. You want to make using your site an easy experience and the IDSelector helps users enter without any hassle. The explanatory video is a great way to give users a visual of how the IDSelector widget works. The testimonial section is a great way for people to see how useful the widget has been for others.

Some questions

Is there a maximum number of OpenID providers that can be listed on the IDSelector widget? Does IDSelector have any other competitors that are approaching OpenID issues?

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What it does

AllMyFavs.com is a site that brings you all of the best sites organized by category. Now you don’t need to search the web for the best content because AllMyFavs.com does that for you. When you visit the homepage you will see lists of the weekly favorites and then the top ten sites in each of the categories. The logos of the top ten sites are listed and when you click on them you are brought to the site. AllMyFavs.com has many different categories: such as kids, travel, shopping, entertainment, videos, images, shopping, finance, news, banks, and more. The weekly favs are the ten best sites from all of the categories. Each week there is a list of the best favs. AllMyFavs.com does have all of the crucial categories and the best sites for each category. It is a useful site for finding good content.

In their own words

“Two brothers, Two continents, One passion! To bring you the best of the web!

How often have you visited search engines and couldn’t find exactly what you wanted?

You searched the web for a specific site and found only sites that had nothing to do with your actual request.

Why search? Our team of experts did the search for you!

We have searched the web and provided you with a visual directory that includes the best sites in each category!

We know we don’t have everything, but we are trying hard to get you the most of what you need, in a unique and innovative way.

So sit back, relax and enjoy the surf…”

Why it might be a killer

AllMyFavs.com has an attractive interface and the site is easy to navigate. Listing the sites by the logo is a great idea, it is more attractive and easier to recognize. The categories are a great way for people to easily find what they are looking for. It is nice that you can send sites to friends. The weekly favs is also a great feature that shows users the best sites of all of the categories.

Some questions

AllMyFavs.com could add some more Web 2.0 features such as comments on the site and even groups. Besides weekly favs there should be the best sites for a month as well.

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What it does

Are you a web designer that would like to optimize your CSS codes? CleanCSS.com is a tool for web designers that helps them optimize their CSS codes. CCS is short foe Cascading Style Sheets which is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in markup language or webpage written in HTML, or XHTML. CSS can define the color, font, layout, and other aspects of document and webpage presentation. CleanCSS.com offers web designers the CSS optimizer, CSS Tidy, which the site owners’ claim is the best CSS optimizer around. Web designers use CSS optimizers to get smaller CSS files and better written code. When you first enter the site you can see the optimizer. You have a section for the CSS input and the CSS layout where you choose a compression code layout from; highest, high, standard, low and custom. Then you have your options where you can remove unnecessary backslashes, compress colors, save comments, etc… to create a clean CSS code. CleanCSS.com also helps you with shorthand coding so you can consolidate information such as color and orders into one line. CleanCSS.com is a helpful site for web designers.

In their own words

“CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.

The CSS optimizer was originally developed by some awesome dudes over at CSS Tidy. They built the program and have made it free for everyone to use. I stumbled across their optimizer one day while looking for help with my CSS. I wanted to know the shortest way I could style a background of a web site without having to use all the “background-image” and “background-repeat” tags. I found some other optimizers which I tried, but none worked as well as CSS Tidy. It was actually hosted on some random CD Burning website. Why? I have no idea.

But after I posted about it on my blog, I noticed that a week later, the site no longer existed. I was bummed because I was trying to show my fellow designers at work this amazing utility. So I took the liberty and installed CSS Tidy on my own webserver and registerd cleancss.com. I also styled it up to my liking (see the grass green colors?). So now I can make sure this kick-ass CSS utility stays up forever. And gets used by web designers everywhere.”

Why it might be a killer

CleanCSS.com has a clean interface which is fitting for the title of the site. The lime green color is appealing and the site is easy to navigate. Putting the CSS Tidy optimizer on the homepage is a good idea so users don’t have to look at all to find it. The description of why you should optimize CSS code is useful for those of us who are not experts in the web designing field. CleanCSS.com does a good job of explaining how and why the optimizer is useful.

Some questions

There are other CSS optimizers available, how will CleanCSS.com deal with competition from other sites that offer the same type of tool? CleanCSS.com could show examples of CSS codes before an after using the CSS Tidy optimizer, so users could get an idea of how to condense the codes.

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