Our latest additions to the directory:

Ustream.tv

Ustream.tv provides a platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events. It enables anyone with a camera and a connection to the web to broadcast to a global audience, create their own channel on Ustream.tv, or broadcast through their own site. You can also simply visit the site to watch thousands of shows ranging from music, keynotes and talk shows, major political or sport events.

Lunch

Lunch is a recommendation community designed to connect you with people who share the same interests to let you benefit from more relevant opinions. As you contribute reviews, lists, and ratings on any topic of interest, Lunch’s recommendation engine (called the “Similarity Network”) pairs you up with other members that it thinks are most similar to you, based on reviews you’ve submitted and other actions on the site.

We’ve added a number of clever search sites: Ensembli is a topic tracking tool that progressively learns from your actions to deliver better content. Nsyght allows for a real-time social search by aggregating your friends’ activity online. News portal Eqentia aggregates business and tech info using semantic technology. Use Ranker to easily build lists on anything from films, recipes, music or people, and browse “consensus” lists reflecting the wisdom of the crowd.

Prezi

Dubbed the “coolest presentation site” by Techcrunch, Prezi is a Flash-based app that breaks away from the usual slide-by-slide approach. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a large visual canvas containing words, links, images, videos, etc. You just have to define your own path to run through it. The free version brands every presentation with a Prezi logo but offers 100MB storage and comes with an offline player.

In the office category, project management tool Busy Lissy provides a centralized spot in which members of your team can interact and work together. Verbosus is a useful tool to manage LaTeX projects online and create PDF documents.

Howcast

Launched by two former Googlers, Howcast is a site filled with originally-produced how-to videos on everything from “How to legally change your name” to “How to clean skateboard bearings”. Browse through thousands of how-to videos and guides produced in-house as well as by media partners and individual contributors. The Howcast iPhone app has been downloaded over a million times.

The Future Channels is an educational site that provides video clips to use in the classroom. Categories include Environment, Earth Science, Space Science, Sports, and more.

Radio Tuna

Radio Tuna brings music discovery to internet radio. You can dive right in by searching thousands of stations by genre, artist, and song to begin listening. Radio stations are given rankings to show you how much of a certain type of music they play. It also lets you share the stations you listen to with friends through Facebook and Twitter.

Paper Critters

Paper Critters is a lively and colourful application for creating and sharing digital paper toys. You can edit all five sides of your toy using the Toy Creator’s drag and drop tools. There are different sizes to choose from and slick movable views. You can print your toy, share it via email, IM, or drop it on your blog.

Also new on the directory, Kontain is a slick looking media blogging tool to share photo, video, and audio content, with a focus on ease of use. Finally sleep tracking service Yawnlog helps identify your sleep problems by displaying your snooze data in chart-form.

Enjoy!

Our weekly additions to the directory:

BirdHerd

BirdHerd is an easy and useful tool to add contributors to a single Twitter account. Just choose which other Twitter users should have the ability to tweet from the account. They will then be able to direct message the account and their DMs will appear in the timeline with a slash-via attribution system that lets users know who sent the tweet.

The team at BirdHerd have kindly given us a promo code to let you try out the service. Type in ‘jolicloud’ to create an account on BirdHerd.

Nirvana

Nirvana is a task management app based on David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done”. His well-known method of keeping organized is all about getting things out of your head and into a trusted system, then effortlessly drilling down to the thing you should be doing right now. You can tag, file, schedule and reorder tasks, and delegate by getting Nirvana to send an email on your behalf.

Simple app Ketchup will help you keep all your meeting notes in one place, and share them via public or private urls.

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is a free programming Q&A site that is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow programmers. Posts can be anonymous, but registered users can earn reputation points by convincing other users that they know what they are talking about. Vote up helpful answers by clicking the upward pointing arrow to the left of your question.

Dealing with more general topics, Hunch is a decision making site that addresses your problem or question based on the collective knowledge of its community. Similarly, Quora is a collection of user-created questions and answers that aims to inspire a very broad range of contributors.

Topikality

Topikality is a topic tracking tool that gradually learns what sort of articles you like, and emails them to you. Users vote articles up and down, and once 50 votes have been put forth the service will start drawing comparisons to select and deliver more accurate content. You can subscribe to a feed of all the articles in you ‘topik’, and use email links to share articles you like.

Carbonmade

Carbonmade offers one of the easiest ways to display and manage your creative portfolio online. Its user interface is intuitive and humorous, and a free account will provide you with 5 projects to show and a total of 35 images. You can also update Flash content and video. Carbonmade is being used by over 184,000 designers and artists worldwide.

Pictaculous generates a colour palette from any uploaded image and lets you download an Adobe Swatch file to work with it. It doesn’t require registration.

Starviewer lets you peek at interesting and vivid sights in the night sky and In My Backyard estimates how much electricity you can produce through solar and wind power in your own backyard (providing it’s located in the US).

Other additions include top currency converter Oanda, award winning internet movie database IMDb, and lifestream aggregator Dipity.

Happy joliclouding!

What’s new on Jolicloud this week:

Teambox

This Twitter-like project management tool facilitates collaboration and notifies team members of additions and changes to projects. Teambox lets teams create unlimited projects for free. It comes with a neat interface where every project includes forums, task lists, wiki pages, people (collaborators) and chat. Teambox will work fine for freelancers who can create a project for every client and add those clients to the projects.

Twitalbums is another collaborative app to create multimedia albums to share and edit with selected Twitter friends.

Cacoo

One of the many diagram creation tools available, Cacoo offers an easy drag and drop interface which you can use to create flowcharts, UML diagrams, wireframes and sitemaps. You can work on several sheets at once and export diagrams as PNG. Cacoo also lets you share your diagrams and collaborate with others in real time.

Verb

Verb is a task management and sharing application designed for individuals and small teams, which, like other similar apps, aims to make things simple and flexible. Projects and tasks lists are easy to create, and the interface allows you to manage priorities, tags and due dates without coming in your way. You can easily share your projects with others and keep all your tasks in one place.

Noteflight

A great web alternative to composition software, Noteflight offers simple tools to create music. Click on the music sheet, and drop a note in the right spot. You can highlight dropped notes, add additional notations and change timing, or even drag and drop to correct. Noteflight is also a community which lets you see the work of others and leave comments on their scores. It also lets you publish them to Noteflight’s searchable library of music.

Timelines is a crowd-sourced history site which makes it fun to browse user created events connected across timelines and described using notes, videos and images.

tunesBag

A music player with social features, tunesBag offers an online audio library and lets you upload up to 1GB of your music onto the site. You can then play your tracks, share them with your friends and have them rank your tunes and playlists. tunesBag for iPhone is on its way.

Foodista

Foodista is a collaborative project to build the world’s largest cooking encyclopedia everyone can edit. Foodista organizes cooking information into four linked categories: Recipes, foods, coooking techniques and kitchen tools. Foodista is built both by registered community members and anonymous contributors through a wiki.

Epicurious, the award winning food site, and cooking community Culinary Culture can also be found on the directory.

We’ve added a bunch of health information and education apps including MEDgle, Icyou, and iMedix (not to be confused with diagnostic or decision-making tools). Dailyburn will help you monitor, track and meet your fitness and nutrition goals using graphs for motivation. If you are a runner or jogger you might want to join the lively forums at Runner+.

Those who like a bit - or a lot - of online dating will be able to install Meetic, one of the largest dating sites in Europe, as well as Dating DNA and Zoosk, which both draw personal info directly from your favorite social networks to find your match.

Enjoy!

Some important updates are available on Jolicloud today: FireFox 3.5.7, Adobe AIR 2 Beta, and Boxee Beta. To upgrade to the latest versions, just click on ‘Update All’ on your Jolicloud dashboard.

Boxee Beta

The new version of Boxee, the open source platform that integrates personal media with Internet media and social networking has received a complete UI overhaul that makes browsing through content even easier. It includes the ability to filter a show by season and episode and easier sharing using Boxee’s social features, allowing users to share info about what they are watching on Facebook or Twitter.

SynchTube is a new app that offers a place to watch Youtube videos with friends in real time. The service creates a special URL for a video room that is good for 3 people to join and chat.

Flavors.me

Looking for a one-stop place to show the world who you are and what you do? Flavors.me lets you create an elegant website using personal content from Flickr, Last.fm, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo and Facebook in about 10 minutes. The appeal of Flavors.me lies in how easy and instantly rewarding it is. You can customize your main content, use your own background image, and try different layouts, styles and colors.

Cliqset is a FriendFeed-like online identity platform that lets you merge and share social info, including status updates, location, photos, and more, all in one place.

If you looking to publish your Facebook pictures in a nice magazine-like format, YoutellYou will do just that, and let you add captions and nicely weave your story. Popular bookmarking service Instapaper lets you save webpages for reading later on the site itself or on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor. An acronym for “Vi Improved”, Vim is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim’s many additional features are designed to be helpful in editing program source code. The full functionality is expressed in command line mode, and a built-in tutorial for beginners is available through the “vimtutor” command.

ZumoDrive offers cloud storage for all your documents and media without sacrificing the benefits of local storage. You can access your music, photos, and documents easily. ZumoDrive mimics a standard hard drive but saves content in the cloud and then streams it to each of your devices instead of saving local copies.

PoketyPoke

PoketyPoke is your personal Conference Call manager, built so that you never miss another important call or be the one dialing in late. Just forward all your conference call’s details to the service, which will confirm it via email. At the scheduled time PoketyPoke will call you and connect you directly to the conference call.

Google Tasks is a super simple task-tracking app that stays up to date no matter how you access it. As an alternative to lists, whiteboard app SquareLeaf lets you arrange colored sticky notes in the visual way most suitable for you. We’ve also added the web version of SimpleNote, the popular note-taking app for iPhone and iPod Touch.

tDash

A dashboard for Twitter, tDash aims to reproduce Google Reader’s clean and simple interface. It marks tweets as read, organizes tweets by sender and offers inline expansion of conversations. tDash supports Twitter lists and a number of keyboard shortcuts.

Finally password manager Mitto will help you strengthen your passwords for all your online accounts without having to remember the actual string. Log into any of your websites in one click from Mitto.

Enjoy!

Our latest additions to the Jolicloud directory:

Living Stories

The New York Times and The Washington Post have been working with Google on an innovative news site that combines new ways to interact with news and quality reporting. Living Stories offers everything there is to know about current top stories, from updates to people, photos and graphs, unified on a single dynamic page. The site also calls your attention to changes in the story since you last viewed it.

TeuxDeux

Created by FictiveKin in collaboration with SwissMiss, TeuxDeux is a simple, good-looking, to-do application designed around users’ personal work-flow and preferences. It lets you see the week you’re on: Days in the past are light grey, the actual day is red and days in the future are black. Items that you didn’t take care of ‘today’ will automatically be moved to the next day. You can also check items off, and put new ideas in the ’someday’ section.

Qapture offers insight into some of the most interesting people on Twitter, sharing the links that capture what’s on their minds right now. We’ve also added UberVu, a site to follow conversations across social media sites, Friendbinder, a service that brings together your friends from various social networks, Filebox, which allows you to store, share and publish your media, and Wordr, a Twitter clone where you can post only one word at a time.

Plurk is another micro-blogging platform using 140 character updates, or plurks, which then appear on a timeline showing all the updates from your network. LiveFyre brigns another twist to real time conversations with an interface that lets you start and follow a fyre (or conversation thread)  about your topic of choice.

Audacity

This week we are adding audio editor Audacity, which succeeds at being both feature-rich and flexible, while keeping the workspace uncluttered. Audacity is perfect for recording audio, convert audio files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.

Pictory

Pictory is an online magazine focused on documentary and culture. It gives users the chance to contribute their best work to a weekly photo essay, with only one photograph submitted at a time. after receiving the submissions, the editor chooses between 20-40 entries to create the final product.

22tracks

22tracks is a jukebox consisting of 22 playlists in different genres, each filled with 22 tracks, selected by specialized DJ’s from Amsterdam.

NBC Video Library allows US users to browse and watch selected shows online in their entirety. In the UK, the BBC Music Beta project explores the connections between over 400,000 music artists who are played on BBC radio stations. Whosampled is a site that allows users to explore the origins of their favorite songs by discovering direct links between over 18,000 songs and 8,000 artists.

On Jolicloud you can now have a game of mahjong, or play with a new sliding-tile puzzle game called Continuity Game.

Enjoy, and from all the Jolicloud Team, we wish you a Happy Christmas!