Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Wufoo Review

Quick Summary
Wufoo is an online service that allows you to build webforms, online surveys, and invitations so that you can collect data, registrations, and payments without having to write any code. The service is aimed at people with no coding experience. The service is free, but has a tiered pricing plan to get much more functionality. They have some extra functionality that allows you to sift through your data, graph it, and export it to Excel of CSV. You can embed the forms/surveys through HTML of CSS, if you know how.

Things I Like

  • Remove all complications from the form/survey building process. 
  • Has more functionality built-in than google forms.
  • Looks nice. 
Things I Don't Like
  • If you have much experience with web stuff, this doesn't entirely work from a customizable standpoint. 
  • Much like google forms, just have more functionality right in the same place.

Tinychat Review

Quick Summary
Tinychat allows you to create video chat rooms with as many people as you want. It allows video and audio. It is a free service, which means there are ads. It's all through their website so you don't download any program. There is an ability to have a group whiteboard. There is also a text chat too that can be used. You can also join a random chat room, although I'm not in need of that sort of people connection some people might like it.

Things I Like

  • Login using FB, Twitter, or create an account with them. 
  • Currently this is the only service I know of that allows you to create a large video chat room. I can't do it with skype, you can do four people in iChat, but nothing quite like this.
  • Simple site, doesn't try to be a social network in the same way that FB or Twitter do. 
  • All through their website, I don't have to d/l anything.
Things I Don't Like
  • Because of the technology involved with chat and video, the site is a little slow and wonky at times. 
  • Banner ads are large and distracting.
  • No search option to find a chat room (at least I couldn't find it).
  • By allowing people to join random rooms, you get some pretty lewd stuff (think Penis on your computer screen)