After looking with detail through several themes, we found the right theme with customization and fully compatible with Wordpress and the theme is K2 and for an extensive description check the k2 about page.

Technology leaders predict that its usage will define it, just like the web 2.0 claimed its stake on the world and altogether its name and meaning. Semantic stands for “the meaning of” and its preview and predictions about its complexity makes the statement somehow fall short.

Certainly 2008 might not be the year when semantic take the plunge and meet the very high expectations of a hungry community of Technology followers… it’s been stated that the Semantic Web lack of a real need and deep purpose and indeed its ambitious and promising technology would go through a hard time before tunning into real and useful services.

We collected some great services that are leading us to the new web frontier.

1. Adaptive Blue, a different approach to the semantic futuristic approach, to use semantic as a enhancement of our everyday routine tasks.

2. Artificial Memory, a very complex approach of semantics, structure its technology by pointing to associated documents by knowledge.

3. Clear Forest, an enterprise solution that collects data and provides a solution to bring together pure text and data information put together in a easy researchable approach.

4. Facebook, After creating not only a place for network with your friends, but further changing the approach of how external services interact with an independent platform, the Beacon keep us updated on what our friends are doing that including our own moves.

5. Freebase, a very useful approach service that compile information into a shared giant database.

6. Hakia, probably the first service that is taking semantic into a more complex search results, and taking not only cached results into the picture but dynamic content that would probably won’t show on any traditional search results.

7. Lifestreams, a simplistic way to keep true about who you are and what you do!

8. Lijit, an impressive way to track follow, friends and fans.

9. Orchestr8, Structured mahsups!

10. Plaxo, Get lost never again, network made easy and stay organized on the go!

11. Powerset

12. Spock, looking for someone made easy and possible.

13. Tripit, be on top of your traveling situations.

14. Trueknowledge, building probably the probably the first to be storage of the world’s knowledge.

15. Twine

16. Zotero, a browser’s extension that may change the way you research.

1. 43 Folders, not only an RSS button but a whole setup of options for readers, an intriguing strategy with a very elegant presentation.

2. Andy Beard, the how to make sure your statement it’s clear and understood

3. Ars Technica, never falling short, a section display is not enough for the folks at Ars Technica, a whole page just in case! Lets Feed the World.

4. Boing Boing, radical move, displaying the feed section in the footer, a valuable lesson of footer’s usability.

5. Copy Blogger, with 30k, with less than 100 pixels bellow the logo, very good reason to gather 5 figure subscribers.

6. Web Designer Wall, the whole theme is an amazing display of art, very well done water color effect!

7. Deziner Folio, that is drama! looking forward to see how their subscribers grow after this magical effect.

8. How To Split an Atom, a very well balanced feed box display

9. Josh Minnich, minimalist and simplicity a very enjoyable load of text.

10. Parandroid, unique, awesome, fun!

11. The Wrong Advices, The whole thing is very mysterious the first and second column showing a completely viral and social environment!

12. Think Simple Now, a very simple and eye catchy display.

13. Tree Hugger, a little missed into the busy layout, the last jump fold of the page, a green strategy with a green purpose.

14. Web Urbanist, memorable… a completely different approach with a very inviting concept, catchy!

15. Zen Habits, making it a header option, well balanced display.

We also gathered some numbers from the Technorati’s 100 most linked blogs that show their feed numbers.

On the search for effective integrated footers we collected a few that are amazing for creating engagement to produce internal traffic and brand awareness. We present you an alphabetical order list of 15 Footers with viable integration.

1. Department of Spanish and Portuguese

2. Biola University, customer service at glance

3. Designer Wall, a resource of inspiration and Design News…

4. Far from fearless, a well implemented flickr section, “How not to” steal browser window space.

5. Generation Church, despite the original design a holy experience literally speaking!

6. Giga OM, Malik once again ahead on the game… brand, brand, brand

7. John Chow, recently updated blog, the real sense of giving, links to MyBlogLog profiles for visitors, blog roll, and a source of money making opportunities. why is he evil?

8. Pop Sugar, well planned branding strategy with access to the entire network and feed subscriptions to all their blogs.

9. Powazek, what a footer should look like, BTW Derek is going to be one of the speakers at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change 2008.

10. PR Blogger, reaching information in one place, very smart way to present a stream of events and information.

11. Problogger, Darren always in the game, another recently updated blog like very much his new layou, the Home page is a little busy to my taste, However Darren dear friend you excel with this footer.

12. Read Write Web, Simple and minimalist, keeping the reader on the spot!

13. Simple Bits, fellow bloggers are making the news and they will continue, featured in almost each design blog, Phenomenal Design.

14. Speak Light, the only product website that we feature on this showcase, essential and smart.

15. Tennessee vacation, well featured category section.

travelpod, the perfect mix for people who love Traveling and Blogging, can also be used as a guide for future vacations.

Travelistic, a solid video site youtube like for geographic content.

Yourstreet, a news aggregator, the service features two very unique characteristic, conversational approach and news to the neighborhood level.

Outside.in, a news aggregator with neat interface and graphics, with relevance to some degree based on community picks and views.

Placeblogger, a blogs aggregator, with the rise of citizen journalism weblogs have become the voice of the community, a great place to interact with bloggers of you area.

Metroblogging, a community of bloggers that stream local, opinion and editorials from people who actually live in the featured places.

Loki, Positioning, search and geography brought together, it’s a toolbar that works based on WPS (Wireless Positioning System) that works with some similarity to GPS. The toolbar locate your position anywhere within the coverage area. Useful for travelers and wifiers on the go.

Flickr, one of the most successful services for store photos online has taken it service into geography.

Platial, map generator, where you can find or create maps about almost anything, the tool have security levels in case that you want to let others add places to your very own map.

Plazes, update your location wherever you are, find places and activities. You may not be alone, plazes also show who else is there.

Yample, geo-tagging service, that uses the Social Bookmarking model to let the community collect and aggregate websites that features geographical Content, also feature the content based on relevance of votes made by the community.

Meetup, a mirror of local communities, a great place to discover where people gather together about stuff you like.

Yelp, reviews, with a vast amount of reviews from restaurants to physicians. Community verbosity at glance.

Upcoming, events and interaction, the site allow users to share events, places, tags.

Vast, classifieds aggregator, millions of classifieds from all over the Internet in one single place.

Some clues and events makes eminent to think that the next generation of applications and services are around the corner, a compatible HTML, strong and bold CSS standards, smarter and more intelligent XML is leading the way to a more accomplished semantic web.

Evolution, Plaxo has always been an exponent of vanguardist technology, now with a more polished version Plaxo lets you keep track of what you and your pals are doing online. Stumble Upon, is another practical example of the future of the internet and its intuitive service is proof of that.

Lingua Franca, after several trials on getting a more compatible HTML, a more extensive and smart its been on development from enhancement on its basic tags could also include mark up properties like titles, bodies or articles, categories; and probably a geographical approach.

Applications, The evolution of widgets and API are probably some of the biggest accomplishments of the web 2.0, however not only a more polished version the next generation may bring but a bolder presence like the emerging comments services, Open ID and Citizen Journalism exposed to new levels. All of these application makes the meaning social an easier task and putting users in the spotlight what better way to accomplish it.

Geography, ever since craigslist launched it’s free service and the service got to the stardom, no new accomplishments have being granted to Hyper-Local. Now we are experience new services. To see other examples of geography integrated to the web please check The geographical web among us.

Information, Feeds and RSS are taking a new approach about the semantic importance of a new way to deliver and share information, even a new breed of mixed services was brought by web 2.0 and we know them as Mash-Ups. Now these hybrid services are start getting exposed to bigger things and represent full services Hulu, streamy, twine are just examples of what the next generation might bring us, exciting indeed.

After a few years of online banking, video and TV streaming online, messaging systems for online and mobile, conversational media and social networks, the question is What the next generation of the internet might be?

The new breed of applications where anyone will group their online and offline life, access to interact with unlimited information, a more physical approach where all the services of our offline life will meet, where artificial intuition will allow us not to think to discover what’s next. We started to notice the signs with astonishment and realizing that the evolution of the web is imminent. Please share your thoughts and opinions on what the next step of the web is, also leave links to relevant information about it.

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More interest is the fact that sometimes to look for inspirational resources where most of us look for, its an over burned idea. “Think outside the box” well… another overused phrase. The same principles apply to design and web development.

In this article we present you sites that you may seen before, they remain highly commercial and focus on sell products, however even then they are heavy charged with inspirational material, bringing your senses to a state of utopia, a fantastic and almost imaginary way to present a brand.

1. Vimeo. Because everyone shouldn’t see everything.

2. BP.com, Beyond Petroleum

3. MAGIC PONY, Shop & Gallery for Creative Animals

4. PBS KIDS

5. LEGO.com Star War edition

6. The Altoids Entertainment Extravaganza

7. Cirque du Soleil

Some of the more attractive features of the Plugin:

• Bookmarklet Access - Use it from any web page
• Selected Text - By highlighting text on a web page and selecting the bookmarklet, the highlighted text will populate the post box making it that much faster to blog.
• Image Selection - The images on a page will automatically populate the image box. Clicking on an image in the pop-up window will put that image into your blog post.
• YouTube Integration - If you are viewing a video on YouTube and click on the bookmarklet, the embed code for that video will automatically be inserted into your blog post.
• Ability to turn on and off WYSIWYG Editor
• Ability to set default category per QuickPost Type.

Blog Rush is a very appealing widget with its functionality that compiles feeds and display it from other members that have added the widget on their own sites. Very well done tool that was imminent on creation, after we all much use feeds for pretty well said everything and everywhere related to blogging and data information drive.

Enough intriguing the fact that works on Credits, Referrals, Network, Ratio and Levels of each of these items or combination of. The widget is very popular now on the blog sphere, and promise much regarding its future.

The lack of customization will make improvements come handy. But a great adventure and success appoint the Blog Rush widget as a winner.

Earlier this month I had reviewed a very cool widget that works as an bookmark submission tool, but also as a link back to top supporters, you can read more about it here “Romlet a widget that loves back!“, however real state its valuable on any site. I’m featuring an “Add This” widget just above the title of this post, it also gives to the blog authors and site owners the feature to track the audience support by displaying valuable statistics about the titles, and bookmark services the audience uses through the “Add This” button functionality.

One not so accurate information that the widget features and is a little bit confusing, is that the statistics report displays what users have the intention of bookmark, but not the final submission results. What exactly that means? well doesn’t track how many bookmarks have really been successfully submitted.

Even with not so accurate and meaningful statistics, its a great tool that allows to use the real state of your blog or site with better purposes either to use the real state for monetizing or for a clean look, worth it to try.