I use RTM, TiddlyWiki, Jott and have 2 groups on Ning. RTM is awesome! TW is incredibly practical. I store all sorts of tidbits and keep a journal (or at least try to) with it. Jott is soooo convienient when I'm out and about and want to remember something for later. I use it a lot wandering around bookstores so I can add titles to Amazon when I get home. :-)

Another really useful webapp is Pinger. It allows you to send broadcast voicemails. This has been very useful both at work and home when I didn't have time to call a bunch of people to relay news.

wolfsong

I love RTM's Gmail integration, but I prefer Todoist for simple listmaking efficiency, and pretty colors. For free file conversion, I haven't found anything better than Omniformat (and boy have I looked).

SarahMcL

I don't know what happend to my previous comment but...

I use www.maklist.com. Here, I make lists of all kinds and share with my girlfriend, even with community. I make todo, shopping list, best wine under $12 and food recipes.

foozilla

I would highly recommend Meebo. I now use it as my primary application for chatting with my accounts. Why waste hard drive space when this thing does the job perfectly? I also made a Meebo account but find it a little unnecessary. The Meebo rooms don't interest me as a user, but the convenience of the app is great.

captain_apathy

What about uship.com? It's more of a marketplace than a "web app" per se, but it still provides consumers with great cost savings when they move (anything really--their house/apt, car, boat, piano, etc.).

wahoo01

I'm a huge fan of Netvibes as well. It is my preferred RSS reader.

chametner

for quick sharing of files under 2mb and text (i use it a lot for sharing code), you can't beat cl1p.net!!!

summerblink

I forgot about Anywhere.FM. I had some music on there, and now I'm going to put more so I can listen to my music easier at work.

brandonbeeson

Great list!
I have been a Netvibes evangelist for quite some time now. It's my ZTD trusted source for lists, notes, To Do's, things of that nature.
Just signed up for Jott; now that looks like something I would use a great deal.
I'm a member of one group on Ning.

William Mize

Huge fan of Jott - I use it, I blog about it and I've been telling friends about it. Trying to GTD and using my entourage inbox as my task list, Jott has been a lifesaver for me. At 40, short term memory is starting to go...
Where am I?

phongeer5

For some reason, I was able to get to Meebo even through a very locked-down network that excluded games, webmail, and a lot of other websites.

MePerson

In regards to Anywhere.FM, pretty neat, pretty neat. I like it. For those who do not want to upload their music, or just don't need browser based access I have pretty good results connecting to my home machine via the pre-packaged Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection tool. Once I'm there, I just stream music over the Internet to my work computer...or anywhere else. Definitely not the same - but ideal if you just want your music at work w/o your MP3 player.

For those with firewalls (All of you...right? :) You will want to open port 3389 TCP inbound. It'd also be ideal if you could filter IP addresses inbound (For example, only my work IP address has access to my home ip on port 3389)

Cheers.
S

Sanjay_

If you run a blog, netvibes can be an essential tool for being able to see everything blog-related from a 50,000 ft view:

[internetducttape.com]

engtech

I've been blown away by the simplicity and nice design of drop.io (I think they're calling it 'Drop Yo'). Check it out and be sure and notice how you can create one-time url's to share your stuff - and even password protect it. I've found myself using it a lot. People always comment on it when I send them something via drop.io.

Gerard Sorme

I think that www.divshare.com is underhyped. They provide free, unlimited storage and sharing for your documents and media. I use it often and love it!

Joel

joelnewcomer

I was longtime resistant to use doodle as it meant YATSUHTM (Yet Another Tool Simple Users Have To Master). Wiki here, Milk there and Doodle next door - I feared my users will get lost with all these apps and what to do where.
So I was very happy to find a doodle plugin for Dokuwiki (which we use in our organisation).
So for anyone out there this is a nice integration of two functions.

mamu

How do you get free songs to play on anywhere.fm?! I signed up for an account. But can't for the life of me figure out how to get any song to play. I haven't uploaded any.

molife

What about Toodledo?

thegrok

If you are talking about underhyped, you need to mention [www.toodledo.com] which has not received the attention that it deserves. It is a task manager (like RTM), but is has a lot of stuff that the other online to-do lists do not have.

offsky

I use remember the milk as a general all purpose life organizer, but I recently switched to Todoist for work related tasks. The minimalist design was not as intuitive as Remember the Milk but it is surprisingly powerful.

christopherphillips

I also noticed that some of those apps have iPhone compatable versions which is incredibly handy. I use meebo on my phone quite often.

D.

mono

PimpMyNews ([www.PimpMyNews.com]) is definitely underhyped - The site's getting hammered with traffic since it was just picked as "Cool Site of the Day".

It's a Web 2.0 "talking newsreader" on steroids - it hunts down your text news & blogs and instantly converts them to "near-human sounding" audio.

You can listen (vs. read) online or on your iPhone, iPod or any MP3 player. It's pre-loaded with about 1,000 of the top blogs and 5,000+ new "talking stories" per day.(you can personalize it)

Hyper-addictive and free.

JohnAtkinson

Remember the Milk is a usability nightmare.

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who found the RTM interface cluttered, awkward and unintuitive. I've never read a negative word about the app, and I've tried getting the hang of it several times. Despite all the cool features, the app just constantly gets in its own way.

ToddZ

Deezer.com blows away Anywhere.Fm. It can store your MP3s, I believe is supposed to remain free, and you listen to a lot of music that you don't own for free legally. There are other features too, but I haven't explored them, so I have no idea how good they are, but they supposedly offer radio, smart playlists, etc. New site just went up so its still a little buggy, but it rocks so far!

celldrifter

Remember the Milk is a usability nightmare. It has a lot of potential, but they need to a complete overhaul of the UI.

Netvibes FTW!

xxdesmus

How about [hiveminder.com] ? You can even add todo items from your IM: [bestpractical.typepad.com] .

stu42j

Another thought, what about gyminee. It's a great workout site that flies WAY below the radar.

www.gyminee.com

nwaringa

I tell ya, no love for Todoist. It beats the pants off remember the milk.

www.todoist.com

nwaringa

Hey, Mojonote should be on this list!
It's got 100% free lists, notes, tasks, and reminders.
Lets you import lists from your computer too.

mnote

How about Zamzar ? Free online file conversion for hundreds of different file formats !

coyote21

dabbledb [dabbledb.com] is the best webapp I've ever seen. It is a kind of personal database for any data you want to store. I use it to manage my book collection (in french: click on 'Les livres' in the middle of the page [damiencassou.dabbledb.com]). I also use it to remember my preferred restaurants with their addresses (dabbledb automatically links your addresses with google maps). You can really model a lot of things and get things stored.

You can have a free account if you accept that your data is publicly accessible ([dabbledb.com]).

twinoatl

Jott totally rocks - my bet of the lott for a google acquisition - smart folks that honed the experience perfectly.

oppositionradio

I think, crazymenu.com pick-a-place is better in some ways than Doodle, it integrates with all major IMs, twitter and syncs your calendar as well.

www.pick-a-place.com

photojournalist

It is worth taking a look at Veetro.com. Suite of small business software tools designed to run 100% of your freelance or service business. Hyped by its users and reviews, just never received much volume.

hudsonco

I'm a big fan and user of Netvibes. It's so functional and elegant. Worth noting about it also is the social networking aspect that is coming with the Ginger release (now in beta).

After trying several such services, I also recently discovered Drop.io for file sharing and am highly impressed by it. It has lots of nice touches like an option for password protection, an upload widget for blogs, and freedom to choose a custom URL (e.g. "http://drop.io/Daves_birthday_bash").

pale_blue_eyes

Nice little free recipe organizer I use:
[recipe.gauzza.com]

swiftness

How about www.todoist.com? for me this is the best todo list web app out there

blackbelt

You missed [www.centraldesktop.com]

They are totally underhyped but are doing very well.

suvabeens

I have found pandora.com to be an awesome music player. Seems to be one of the first sites I jump on when studying or just browsing the web.

djzanee

Meebo is Awesome!

No having to download any software - and if you're at work and having to deal with proxies - it's a cinch if you already have internet access.

It's not just about the IM - but you can put it on a website - check out MeeboMe - have people who come to your website talk directly to you...

Worth checking out...

JP2R

Meebo is cool :)

SmartPhone

@Gerard Sorme: Thank you so much -- I absolutely love this site. It's the easiest thing to share photos with friends -- and no resizing!

wickedcupofjoe

viewer.zoho.com might be a good contender
considering it allows you to convert a pdf or a word document/or multiple other formats/ into an easily spread arround website link

atomic1fire

Feedity www.feedity.com is another contender. Its a sleek and easy custom RSS feed generator for creation of feeds from web pages and web sites without a native RSS feed. Clever!

mikekim

Box.Net is an excellent file-sharing site -- I use it to send files from school to home and vice versa, because it's secure and the interface is ad-free and dead easy to navigate. Also the upload/download times is excellent on their end.

ConnieH

I've really been liking ThnLnk ( [thnlnk.com] ), not just for it's "semantic" URL-shortening service (like "http://thnlnk.com/seven29/Best.Simple.Word.Processors.for.Mac/733" ), but for its "apps" features. ThnLnk "hacks" certain URLs so that you can access web features just from the "command line" URL.

For example, typing out "http://thnlnk.com/tr/Chicago, IL" will give you a Google map with a traffic overlay, zoomed properly, around Chicago. "tr" is for traffic, I assume. Also, their newest app is an artist search interface to Skreemr: "http://thnlnk.com/sa/the clash" in your browser's URL box will use Skreemr's advanced search to find downloadable music.

Pretty neat, I think.

pham

Definitely [yingiz.com]
This service realy rocks. You can actualy just keep shopping online as many of us do, but get instant cash back percentage for your shopping/signups, etc....
They have over 1100 Partners so far, e.g. Amazon, Apple, and many more....

But, the greatest fact about yingiz is (in my opinion), that you can buy yingiz Company shares for 50% of the rebates earned during your online shoppings.

And the next great thing is something called "bet & wishes". You can place a wish for something you want to buy in the short future. Other users can vote to also "wish" your "product". Yingiz then will take your wish and make it a "bet", which simply means, that yingiz will try to fullfill your wish from one of their over 1100 Partners.

Currently only available for germany, but they seem to already prepare their international launch, when you take a look at their Jobs page, where they are actualy looking for people for their international country teams.

So, hopefully this service will be available in the US soon, ...

cyberskater

how about dapper? (www.dapper.net).
creates RSS feeds for sites that do not support rss!!
been using it lately and i like it a LOT.

lidermanrony