Posts Tagged ‘web serendipity’

CDB readers know my affinity for stories of web serendipity; strange or wonderful connections made that otherwise would have not happened without this “internet” thing- here’s another gem.
I’ve forgotten where I first stumbled across on slideshare Power Point 20th Anniversary Cinderella. In 19 slides of lengthly bullet points, inscrutable charts, and exposition, it tells the [...]

This story is old news if you followed my trail last month through Australia. Being up in our cabin again in Strawberry, Arizona, and seeing flowers till blooming in mid November (global warming is hot here) got me thinking again about the most amazing example of web serendipity that happened in Tasmania. Its one of [...]

I’m still scratching my head to find out exactly why I think this is interesting… I just have that tingly feeling. But as we see ever increasing of interest in virtual worlds, continued explosion of web things, mashups, and mobile technologies, its the connections of them that seem to intrigue me the most.
Although I lack [...]

I love it when curious link clicking reveals unknown gems! It happened again just an hour ago, with the result of a great video collection tool.
Almost by sheer accident- discovered following a tweet by Judy O’Connell to her web 2.0 presentation on Slideshare, that I came across this nifty new site, vodpod. Here you can [...]

Talk about serendipity! I can count on one or two paws the number of times I've clicked on a Google AdSense ad. But in reading my inbox in Gmail, someone wriote about blog writing, and there was a link to Free Web Word Processor for your Blog.

 I bit and look what I got! 

 it's a web [...]

I just love it when I find something cool on the web by accident. We Blog Cartoons does something almost no other cartoon site does– it lets you republish the cartoons without any copyright restrictions (how many times have you used that New Yorker one about “no one in the internet knows you are a [...]

Just be shear, dumb, web clicking serendipity, I came across flickrStorm:
FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr!
It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images… Be suprised!

Okay, there are scads of flickr search tools, and it’s not exactly clear what this “magic is”, but they certainly have [...]

flickr foto

Chain Of Entropyavailable on flickr

It’s time to wax again on the sheer giddy glory of stumbling onto web gems by the serendipity of curious link clicking.
It started in my RSS feeds, scanning an entry on Net Neutrality Comes Home to Haddam in Mike Roy’s new blog, Digital Incunabula. I actually didn’t even [...]

By sheer acts of curious link following, I ended up today learning about Warnock’s Dilemma via Classy’s Kitchen:
Warnock’s Dilemma is the situation you face when people don’t comment on your postings:
The problem with no response is that there are five possible interpretations:
1. The post is correct, well-written information that needs no follow-up commentary. There’s nothing [...]

My mind is a leaky sieve. Last year, there was a neat web contest for people to submit an example of a digital story down i video format– with the limit that they had to be under 60 seconds– this was the 60 Second Story site.
I was more curious about how it worked, and usually [...]