Mind mapping may just be the next wave of online applications. Advanced JavaScript libraries and Flash are enabling web-based mind map applications that are almost as robust as their off-line counterparts (such as Freemind).
[2 Jul 2007]
Title jacked from Baratunde. Questions asked by danah. First, the practical question. Can i quote you? [X] Yes, and you must use my real name. [ ] Yes, but please use a pseudonym and don’t use any identifying information. [ ] No, please just use this for your own weird thoughts. Why do you use [...]
[3 May 2007]
So now that we’ve all got 5011 online profiles, blogs, and accounts in 5011 places, several companies are stepping in to create online identity and reputation management tools. Here’s a round-up, although I can’t offer much in the way of commentary. I’m basing my descriptions on under-5-minute-browse-bys (kind of like a drive-by, but with out [...]
[30 Nov 2006]
Apple releases Mac OS X security update Patches for 15 fixes were released today. (Added at 17:14 p.m. EDT) Open Source in the Boardroom [Go straight to the MP3] Not a technical discussion of open source software, mind you, but a look at how businesses and organizations take advantage of the ‘for the community’ ethos. [...]
[29 Sep 2006]
LightReading.com features a similar list of video sharing sites. Behold! A round up of web sites with video sharing, listed (mostly) alphabetically, with notes where applicable. Guidelines for inclusion: Video content is a, if not the primary focus Videos are readily sharable with any site visitors; mere hosting doesn’t count The list abazab.com – upload [...]
[22 Sep 2006]
So says the New York Times in “Like Shopping? Social Networking? Try Social Shopping.” (Actually, I was going to say it before they were, but erm, I got all lazy and such ). The piece highlights sites like ThisNext and StyleHive, but no mention of StyleFeeder. There’s also Wists. Now online social shopping has been [...]
[12 Sep 2006]
UPDATE: Performancing for Firefox has been acquired by PayPerPost.com and is now known as Scribefire While reading and writing about Flock, I kept seeing mentions of a extension for Firefox that would handle blog publishing better than Flock does: the Performancing extension. I installed it, and WHOA. This extension kicks some serious blogging-through-the-browser a**. Below [...]
[5 Jul 2006]
Updated to add: Once you hit the publish button, Flock takes an awful long time to exit the “Publishing your post” dialog. The post publishes very quickly. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the dialog box. Flock recently released a beta version of its browser. I downloaded their developer preview a while back, [...]
[28 Jun 2006]
Thanks to danah for the heads-up about a bill proposed in the House this week that would effectively block access to sites like MySpace, Yahoo!, Friendster, BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com and Facebook from federally-funded schools and libraries. Danah explains why this is a bad, bad, really stupid idea. Because it affects both libraries and schools, it will [...]
[12 May 2006]
I mentioned this briefly in the Atlanta PHP May meeting post. Structured blogging is an intiative to provide a standard format for blogging about particular forms of content. The idea is to make it easier to share particular bits of microcontent by publishing it in a consistent form. The Structured Blogging team has developed plugins [...]
[1 May 2006]