Archives for May, 2007

Google Mashup Editor

Google Mashup Editor GME is an interactive development environment in which you edit, compile, test, and manage your applications. The editor includes a built-in reference guide to all GME tags and attributes. When your application is finished, you can publish it on Googles servers, where its available for others to run.


Google Gears…

Lots of folks are talking about Google Gears, an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness. This is Google’s project to make their online products [...]


retweet » timer

Timer is a Twitter bot that helps you set an alarm for things you need to remember.


Conference Talks and Podcasts… Techlearning blog

Over at the Techlearning blog I have a post about conferences and their use of video and audio podcasts…


PopTech: Blaine Brownell

Jim Gates points to a new PopTech video. This one is by Blaine Brownell an architect and cataloguer of sustainable building materials. He is the editor of the book Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, and a columnist for World Changing. In this talk he discusses and shares products made from [...]


Citypixel

Citypixel is a pixelart-based Internet city created to host and facilitate social relationships. Kind of like Second Life, except the avatars do not work out as much as those in Second Life.


Flexible Video Screen…

A video of Sony’s prototype flexible video screen. Imagine these on lunch boxes…


Google has releasedGoogle Calendar for mobile devices. Wonder what took so long…


Productivity: Lose the Binders…

Over at Leadertalk, I have a post about three ring binders…


Popfly

Microsoft Popfly is a tool to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts: 1 . Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. 2 . Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and [...]


flickrvision beta Watch geotagged posts to Flickr appear on a map…


Jonathan Coulton – MySpace – YouTube – Rock Music – New York Times


Quicksilver as a Productivity Tool…

This is cross posted over at TechLearning… In my role as a building administrator, I often find myself working to document my interactions with students and staff in a way that allows me the greatest flexibility and also provides a date and time stamp that makes reviewing and documenting the interactions easy. Recently I have [...]


EdTechTalk

This past week I had the opportunity to talk with arvind s grover and Alex Ragone of EdTechTalk. They have posted the conversation as a podcast and you can listen to it here: Tim Lauer, Principal, Lewis Elementary School | EdTechTalk


QSPress – Quicksilver to WordPress

QSPress – Quicksilver to WordPress QSPress – Quicksilver to WordPress: Garrick VanBuren has updated his Quicksilver tool to allow you to quickly and easily add posts to a WordPress blog and also include category information. I’m setting up a private WordPress blog on my laptop for note taking and recording interactions at school and this [...]


Domain Issues

My domain had expired and I was having trouble getting it back up. It looks as if now things are working…


Free Comic Book Day May 5th 2007

Go get your free comic book… FCBD Store Locater


My Maps+ …

My Maps+ is a service that makes it easy to embed Google Maps “My Maps” into web pages. You can use the site to customize the look and size of your map and then generate code for embedding into a web page or weblog. Another feature is that you can download the needed javascript files [...]