Here’s something from Webjam that I think a lot of people will get a kick out of. It’s a one step creation tool for creating a content heavy website from scratch. Simply add any topic you like into the field below and click the Adopt! button:
It’s a handy tool for aggregating content from across the Internet, but I think there’s a lot more potential here than simply creating a fanpage (although it does that wonderfully).
One of the things I had to research recently was Spaghetti Westerns. I already know more than a little bit about the genre (I was lucky enough to do a crazy M.A. that covered some really unusual bases), but was a little out of touch with what was going on out there right now. I used the Webjam tool to create this page. Now I’m not going to build a blog around this subject (but I could if I was that way inclined by simply dropping a blog module onto the page as easily as I could pipe Morricone music through it) but as a research hub I’m finding it particularly useful. One of the feeds for example pointed me towards this unpublished book by Alex Cox that I’m having a lot of fun with.
Now most of you will already have blogs, but we all know someone who likes the idea of a real website, but hasn’t got the time (and sometimes chops) to put it together. The nice thing about Webjam is that it’s increasingly making the creation process simpler and easier.
Even someone with an already noteable web presence (be it on Wordpress, Blogger, Movable Type, Flickr, Twitter or whatever) could use the platform to beef up their content. The interesting thing is that this is only a starting point for Webjam. Often compared to Pageflakes and the like it would be easy to gain some buzz around this feature alone, but the team are a lot more interested in using simple page creation to create real communities.
There’s a full version of the tool on the Webjam homepage and be sure to check out the video… you may recognise the voice.

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I just had a play with ‘banana’
um.. that sounds wrong.. But yeah, what an absolute corker of a tool!
I think I may just have to go and play around with it a little more..
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the review!
The idea of using webjam as a starting point for some online research is interesting: you get all the contents on a given topic, and then you can decide to add your own voice to the topic and even share it with others. nice!
PS: We love The Voice
Looks useful, for instant links and pics already embedded in HTML. I sometimes research odd subjects too for my blog.
Occurs to me that makers of nasty robot pages would find it handy too.
Hiya Mike,
that’s an incredibly impressive tool – like you say, you could build a buzz (and a business) just round that alone. I’ll have a bugger around with it this afternoon and give you a shout back. I can see some serious potential for intergrating it into some of the business ideas we’re discussing and some new stuff (which I keep meaning to email you about)
couple of quickies –
can you run google ads on it and take a revenue stream from them?
can you intergrate Amazon A-shops?
Can you install the pages within your own domain name structure?
Speak to you later on.
Gah. I left all these comments in moderation in a flu daze. Apologies all round.
Vics – Glad you like it. I may quote your response to it from now on. Corker is a very underused word.
Sonia – we can both agree that my new croaky voice is even more impressive.
John – alas all cool things are susceptible to evil. We’ll try and keep the bots at bay though. If you do use it and like it let me know because feedback is king right now. We’re changing the focus slightly because what the tool really does is give you an editable search results page. Which I think is unique to Webjam and something I’ll be blogging about again very soon.
Ben – I can see we will be scratching each others’ backs and maybe the backs of people standing too close. Couple of quick answers:
Yes – you can run ads and take revenue stream from them.
Yes – you can intergrate Amazon A-shops… in theory. I’ll try it this weekend to make sure.
Can you install pages within your own domain name structure? Maybe – through a redirect, sure. Anything more than that I’ll look into.
Cheers for trying it out folks – getting feedback from outside of the community right now is priceless.