Twitter, a service that allows you to send very short messages to one another, now has at been part of at least two marriage proposals.
March 2
@stefsull - “ok. for the rest of the twitter-universe (and this is a first, folks) - WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
@garazi - OMG - Ummmmm… I guess in front of the [...]
If you’ve seen one of the “In Plain English” videos created by Common Craft, you’ll remember it. Using basic tools like paper, scissors, drawings and a creative mind, they create videos that explain complex ideas.
If you’re wondering what these topics are and have a few minutes to spare, you will be rewarded:
Twitter
Online Photo Sharing
Blogs
Social [...]
The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Everthing from HTML and CSS to MySQL and Perl to Blogger and WordPress to general web technology. Definitely worth a look.
[from TechEssence.info]
Some of you may remember WPopac, a proof of concept project from Casey Bisson. He wanted to see if it would be possible to run the public access catalog through blogging software, e.g., WordPress, thereby bringing some of the blogging functionality to the catalog.
Since then, he has been working with a few others to create [...]
Ever heard of Twitter? It’s a social networking service that lets those who follow your profile know what you’re doing throughout the day. Botanicalls has figured out a way to use Twitter to help keep your plants healthy.
This is a do-it-yourself project specifically for those comfortable with electrical circuits. By the end, the plant will [...]
If you’re not sure why photo sharing sites like Flickr are so big or how they work, here’s a brief video that explains it “in Plain English.”
[from Tame the Web]
How many social networks do you belong to? The three I use are MySpace, FaceBook, and LinkedIn. What is frustrating to me is that more and more social networks are cropping up and my friends and colleagues are all in different networks. Does that mean I need to be in all of them? I have [...]
Michael Stephens has followed last year’s Library Technology Reports — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software — with another — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Trends and Technologies. According to Stephens:
. . . we’ll revisit some of the social tools presented in Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, address [...]
Talk about a mash-up. Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne took flight data from the Federal Aviation Administration and plotted it visually over time using Adobe After Effects and Maya. The result is a group of QuickTime videos showing flight patterns over the United States for March 19, 20o5.
Yahoo! has a new service that allows you to overlay your map over one of Yahoo’s — MapMixer. So, you can see the roads and cities around a specific place, but also see the details of the place. If you look at the Featured Maps section, you can see a lot of historic places and [...]
