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The Big Picture is a photo blog by Alan Taylor published by the Boston Globe/Boston.com. Roughly three times a week he posts a photograph that illustrates a news story.
Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import Via Mashable
TwitDir is a searchable directory of Twitter users. TwitDir lets you search by keyword and user name.
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…
SketchUp Buildings – This weblog highlights the newest buildings that have been uploaded to the Google 3D warehouse.
LeaderTalk: Looking at Data… With Google Earth: Latest post on Leadertalk.
JotForm JotForm is a web based WYSIWYG AJAXy form builder. Its drag and drop user interface makes form building easy. Using JotForm, you can create forms, integrate them to your site and collect submissions from your visitors. Examples include… Contact Form Blog Contact/Survey Event Calendar Document Uploader Satisfaction Survey Time Sheet Job Application Form RSVP [...]
The word count feature in Google Docs displays not only word, character, paragraph, and sentence counts, but now also readability estimates.
Business Week has an article about Google Apps and reports that Google is preparing a Google Apps version of YouTube to create videos for training and employee communications. I hope this comes to the Apps version for education. We could post our student video projects and such without fear of being blocked by the district [...]
Chris O’Sullivan has created a Rails application (Display KML on a Map) that let’s you quickly test KML code directly in Google Maps. While Google Maps will display KML files, the KML file first has to be saved someplace. This method allows you to copy and paste the KML code into a text field and [...]
BookTour is a service that connects authors and potential audiences. Authors can create a page and folks looking for an author to speak to a group or gathering can contact the author and facilitate the connection. You can also search for scheduled book tour events and see when your favorite author will be visiting your [...]
Intel Joins One Laptop Per Child “Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) today announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join [...]
Today Alan Levine pointed to VodPod, a video aggreation tool. A bit later I ran across this post from Mashable, 7 Online Video Aggregators Reviewed . It takes a look at 6 tools similar to and in addition to vodpod. They all allow you to organize video content from various sources in one place. All [...]
The Apple Blog has a posted a screencast: Quicksilver for Beginners. This is a good introduction for folks new to using the Mac OS X launcher/Swiss Army Knife application. I use Quicksilver quite a bit and find it to be a great tool for doing all kinds of tasks including launching applications, posting pictures to [...]
Dave Winer is utilizing a site called BlogTalkRadio for sending TwitterGrams (voice messages via Twitter). You sign up and associate your phone number with your Twitter ID and by calling the BlogTalkRadio phone number, you record a message which is then sent as a post via Twitter. The Twitter post has link to the recording [...]
Unype is a Google Earth and Skype mashup that allows you to have a shared Google Earth experience with Skype users. Windows only.
The New York Times Magazine has an article ( All the News That’s Fit to Print Out – )about the journalistic nature of Wikipedia and a look at some of the admins who keep things going. All in all, a pretty positive piece.
e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
Hack Attack: 13 book hacks for the library crowd – Lifehacker
Pageflakes for students… No support for Safari…
Meraki Powered Outdoor WiFi Access Kit Coming this summer.
Screencast-O-Matic: Create screencasts with audio from your browser. This is a great tool! – by way of Chris Craft…
Where Authors and Audiences Meet
IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed data center located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out – its free
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.
