What it does

Bored? There’s nothing like a good dose of YouTube to brighten your day. Tooble wants to make your day that much better by bringing YouTube to your iPod. Now, you never have to leave home without Entertainment-To-Go. So next time you’re stuck cubicle-side with no real work to do, hanging in rush hour traffic, or caught in the topsy-turvy of airport delays and hang-ups (and don’t feel like rioting), watch some YouTube. Tooble lets you browse and search for YouTube videos to download to your iPod, iPhone, or even your Apple TV, of you’ve got one. Tooble automatically converts the video to MP4 format and sends it to your iTunes for your viewing pleasure. Tooble also works as a standalone YouTube browser so you can view videos on you Mac at any time. It’s 100% free, contains no ads and malware. A Windows version is in the works too.

In their own words

“Tooble lets you browse, search and download any video from YouTube and put it on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. You can also save them to watch on your computer.

It’s super simple to use, because unlike other similar utilities, tooble is also a stand alone YouTube browser. Right now it’s only available for Macintosh, but a Windows version is coming soon.”

Why it might be a killer

Tooble is a simple, easy to use solution for downloading your favorite YouTube videos to your Mac or iPod. It takes the hassle out of converting video files and transferring them to your iPod.

Some questions

What’s Toobles plan of attack for gaining revenue? They’ve got no ads and its freeware. Will their currently Mac only app turn away potential Windows users?

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What it does

Talis is as old as the internet. Actually, it’s older; it was established in 1969 which makes it a seeming dinosaur in the realm of all things internet. However, this tech company has made a true go of it with Talis v. 2.0. This version focuses on data management. It’s a semantic application which means it tries to find meanings of text and data and then it applies these meanings to their use for you, the end-user. The Talis platform acts as a soup-ed up storehouse of unstructured data. There platform works well with libraries and universities. Once it’s sorted and stored, the data can be retrieved from what are referred to as stores at any point The data is accessed online using metadata. High power search filters and advanced indexing technologies find relevant data. Talis encourages collaboration. The data stored can be made available to share, reuse, and remix. Talis does the data-mining for you, so you can focus on creating.

In their own words

“Driven by a vision of the convergence of social, technical and economic waves of disruption, Talis have created an environment for building next generation applications and services. The Talis Platform enables innovative applications that learn from and assist their users to be created by any software developer.”

Why it might be a killer

Talis is appealing for a number of reasons. It lets you create while Talis handles the hardwork. It can be used to merge countless bits of data and make them useful. It’s a virtual library of Alexandria, and that is hard to beat.

Some questions

What is metadata? What is it good for? Talis can seem hard to bend the mind around. It’s foray into Web 2.0 is brave, but the design of the website seems to be stuck in a stodgy library somewhere on the outskirts of the web.

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