Guess who’s coming to town? Do you think they need a map? Can we expect future logos with cacti, gila monsters, and javelina? Will they take the company tubing down the Salt River? Can they handle the hot stuff from Los Dos Molinos? Will they check out Zoo Lights? After dowing some Killer Chili they […]
As the tawdry saying goes… “I Like to watch” It’s not what your dirty minds think… I was one of more than 100 people watching LiveMarks, a near real time window of the input to the social bookmarking pile called del.icio.us: LiveMarks is a project to show del.icio.us bookmarks live. On the left of LiveMarks […]
According to CollaborativeRank, the new tool that analyzes social bookmark activity on del.icio.us, my own tagging activity is ranked “nonaggressive” (at least I am in 143nd place): What is CollaborativeRank? It’sl like GoogleRank for del.icio.us tagging: Del.icio.us users who bookmark helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) will be rewarded with higher […]
Let’s say you’ve gotten revved up in all the buzz of social software, Web 2.0 (3.7? 10.0?), folksonomy etc… How many of us really have the prowess to sit down and code something like flickr or del.icio.us or facebook?? Well, I just too k a glance, but I would guess Ning is the thing– Ning […]
Woogle uses Google Image search to turn phrases into pictures: Woogle is a search toy based on the ever popular Google Image Search. It creates image messages out of the words in the phrase you entered. The URLs are obfuscated so that you can pass them to your friends without them being able to read […]
I’ve been asking around in come email circles for any leads in software that might allow a mortal faculty member and his/her students to create 3D mind/concept maps… One reply was not relevant, but shared the link to Liveplasma a rather interesting social software / music+movies connection mapping web application. I only played with it briefly, but you can search movies or music by artist, and Liveplasma generates some node and connector maps that display works by the artist, connections to others, and some sort of visual reference that indicates it’s popularity (I think it has to do with what members mark as “favorites”.
My quick exploration was extremely surficial but interesting…
Will the marriage of Google maps top other data forms ever stop? I hope not… Click for a Zip Code Picture overlays the boundary of a US zip code on a Google Map… here is a snapshot of the zip where I grew up: Keep the cool stuff coming… A tip of the blog hat […]
This is ordinary inter-campus mail: Functional, yes, but not all that exciting… Now this is something sent by avDAVE, the legendary media dude at Estrella Mountain Community College: Now that jumps out of your box! Thanks Dave for getting me the audio recordings!
For some reason this morning, NetNewsWire Lite (my desktop OS X RSS reader) was slow in updating the feeds, so I started poking around the interface. In the bottom left I noticed a small double arrow control labeled “default”, and I thought… “what does this do?”: Why it’s a menu! What does it do?: It’s […]
The newest mind-blowing add on for del.icio.us users must be Revealacious billed as “revealing the way you use del.icio.us”: Revealicious is a set of graphic visualisations for your del.icio.us account that allow you to browse, search and select tags, as well as viewing posts matching them. * SpaceNav (demo), which allows you to explore the […]
