Archives for August, 2007
Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import Via Mashable
Am heading over this morning to school to coordinate our annual school yard clean up day, Community Care Day. Volunteers will work from 9:00 to Noon to prune, pull weeds, spread bark mulch and generally clean up the school year for the opening of school on September 5. If you are in Portland and would [...]
I haven’t been adding much to my weblog lately. Mainly I’ve been busy at work getting ready for the new school year. One project I’ve been working on is a redesign of our staff bulletin weblog. I’m moving it to WordPress from Drupal mainly because it really is more of a weblog site than a [...]
Google has enhanced Google My Maps with a feature that allows you to embed your map in a web page or blog. Just click on the “link to this map” link and you are presented with code to paste into your web page. You can use the default settings or follow the customize link to [...]
Map of The World – Shaded Relief (tags: gmaps geography reference lewismaps) Shaded Relief Map of US (tags: geography maps visualization lewismaps)
I’ve been spending some time becoming more familiar with Zoho Creator. Zoho Creator is a web based data tool that allows you to create web forms to capture data. I am in the process of editing our staff bulletin web intranet and as part of the redesign, am using Zoho Creator to create several online [...]
TokBox provides free web browser based video chat. To initiate a session, you need to register, but a nice feature is that registration is not required for anyone else to video chat with you. It works through your web browser, so you don’t need to download anything to your computer. It can also be embedded [...]
Apple – iLife – Tutorials Video tutorials for the new iLife applications from Apple. (tags: ilife mac tutorials lessons imovie iphoto itunes garageband)
Google’s approach to crowdsourcing map data – Dan Karran’s blog Transcript of a podcast by Michael Jones of Google about how Google is using crowdsourcing to construct maps of cities in India. (tags: maps google crowdsourcing)
Tagamac “Tagging is in many ways an internet-based phenomenon and many tagging systems online focus on collaborative tagging, where everyone who uses a site contributes tags. Tagamac, on the other hand, is more focused on individual tagging within desktop program (tags: tagamac folksonomy macos mac applications desktop) Weather 3D An interactive rotating globe with real [...]
TwitDir is a searchable directory of Twitter users. TwitDir lets you search by keyword and user name.
ZMaps: Color your Map A mashup that allows you to color Google maps. Can be countries, states, counties…. (tags: maps mashup googlemaps) ZMaps: MapTool A map mashup that allows you to find the elevation of any location. In addition this mashup also has tools for figuring area and distance . (tags: maps mashup googlemaps gmaps)
3D Warehouse Model Viewer Displays the latest additions to the Google 3D Warehouse. You can display most recent, most popular, and highest rated. Similar to TwitterVision and FlickrVision…
Innovative Interfaces: Via: Technical Information About UsMillennium: Integrated Library SystemINN-Reach: Consortial BorrowingVia: K-12 Library Automation School Children at the ComputerVIA news & eventsservicesliteraturecareerscontact search Via Logo”The Innovative solution offers us power, flexibility, (tags: library via innovative)
XRAY is a bookmarklet for Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla. Use it to see the box model for any element. For a screencast demonstration, follow this link: XRAY Demo… By way of Simple Bits…
