If you are a having a slow weekend, and you happen to love cool new visualizations, then I got some great news for you. Yes you heard me right, you can now visualize all your Twitter friends in a cool new fashion all thanks to TweetWheel. Basically TweetWheel visualizes you and all the connections to your friends and their friends and you and soon.

All you have to do is enter your Twitter username (no password needed) and TweetWheel will go to work digging up all of your contacts, and then probing their contact lists. Please note that this can take some time, so you will have to be prepared to wait, probably with a cup of coffee in hand.

Once you are done with the long wait, you get to see a cool picture with all kinds of links between people here and there. You can’t make out much when you look at it directly, instead hover over a particular user to see all his connections.

Well the screenshot above is the visualization that was generated for me, and for the sake of comparison here’s is Scoble’s. I’m sure you can make out the obvious differences. Maybe you could help me a bit by following me on Twitter.  

Via Twitterholics and Download Squad

Photosynth is currently supported as an addon for Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer.Another requirement is a good graphic subsystem installed for all the graphic shine. So if you have an older graphic card on your pc like the Intel’s 8xx series then Photosynth will not work.The application is free to boot and has an inbuilt image gallery to view some cool stuff.

Here is a screenshot of Photosynth in action:

Here are some notable features of Photosynth :

• Occupies less memory – You must have an active Xcontrol in the system (about 5mb) for Photosynth to run. It doesn’t occupy large disk space.

• Awesome Zooming capacity - Perhaps the best feature of the Photosynth, whether the image is megapixels or gigapixels in size you can zoom in and out without any hesitation whatsoever.

• Navigate in 3D model – Photosynth provides easy controls for exploring large collection of photos in 3D with a simple click of the mouse button.

• Web application - Photosynth can help you connect your photos to the tubes we call the Internet, allowing you to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes that constantly evolves and changes over time.

Microsoft Live Labs says their are plenty of other features as well which are to be explored, but i suggest you try out Photosynth Now!

Flickr has handpicked over 10,000 places worldwide to showcase photos that were shot over there. Flickr will also provide other information like Maps, Weather and Time at that particular location. Say you want to see all photos that were shot in Bangalore, all you need to do is visit the Bangalore Places page to see all the photos that were shot in Bangalore.

Here are a few screenshots that show Places in action :

I believe that Flickr Places will use the Geotagging feature that’s already built into Flickr for the implementation of Places. This does sound like a real cool feature from Flickr, and I am surely going to go for a World tour once it becomes live. 

What do you guys think about this cool new feature from Flickr? I am surely in love with it..

Via Tech Buzz

What is Youtube Desktop?

YouTube Desktop is incredibly cool with a modern design and terrific dynamic web application for searching, watching and downloading videos from the richest online video archive YouTube.

This is basically adding functionality and experience to what “should be” there. The possibilities of the site reach far beyond that. It gives you the chance to create your own environment for watching video clips, saving them and sharing them with friends.

What makes YouTubeDesktop unique?

Videos can be dragged, resized, minimized in a tray, drag’n'drop of videos between players and results, standard menus – makes Youtube Desktop the richest web application for viewing and managing video content! You will be amazed by the flexibility and fabulous design of the website. It is user friendly and easy to navigate but also has great functionality.

Some of its features include :

• Interface, designed to be used just like every other desktop application
• Fast flexible searching, displaying the results with option to resize them, so you can use the site even when sitting in your sofa and watching on a plasma TV – will look just as perfect!
• Managing Playlist – create and save any video to watch later or share them with friends
• Watching multiple videos at the same time – you can have more than one player open – all made easy using standard functionality – dragging and resizing the windows, minimizing them within the tray – never been easier!
• Download Videos as avi, mp4 (ipod), mov, 3gp (mobile), wmv, flv, exe (built in standalone player) – all converted on the fly. That gives you the chance to save all your favourite videos on your computer and watch them whenever you want.
• Drag and Drop interaction – Allows you to drag videos around to create a new player or playlist.
• Change themes – set the way the site looks according to your mood
• Share videos with friends – send url’s and recommend videos to friends through e-mail
• View your recently played videos.

Here is a small screencast of Youtube Desktop that I took. Sorry for the choppy video. This happens to be my first screencast thats why it ended up being like that.

If you want to try out YouTube desktop then drop in a comment and I will send you my beta username and password for you to try this cool thing out..

Check it out here : The 40 Coolest Free Applications Around

There are many apps on the page above, so i am just categorising them here :

• Image Editing and Graphics
• Office
• Web and web development
• Development Applications (IDE’s)
• Operating Systems
• Video Playback
• Audio
• Anti-Virus
• Games

If you are a diehard gamer you might also want to check out this page..

Here is a screenshot that I managed to take of this really weird and funny thing. Rank No 1 is a long way to go and is nearly impossible for me to achieve. Well here you go,

Apparently this isn’t happening only to me but it is happening to every other blog i try for. So are things not so well at Technorati or is it only me who is seeing all this.

How Cheeky, yes and thats a screenshot of the Browser called uBrowser. uBrowser was made by an employee of Linden Labs better known as the makers of the Virtual World Second Life. uBrowser renders multiple pages at the same time that makes Internet browsing a fun experience.

Right now uBrowser isn’t that stable so you can just play around with it, but not use it as your regular browser for the time being. uBrowser is able to render any pages that renders fine with Mozilla Firefox 2+, because it uses the same rendering engine Gecko.

Here are some more screenshots of uBrowser for you

Download uBrowser right away from here