Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
ABCnews.com compiled a list of Web sites new in 2008. To save you the trouble of clicking through six pages littered with ads, I will now list them with a brief description:
Webgiftr -- "is a social website that makes gift giving easy and fun"
Hitchsters -- "helps you share taxis ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Not to totally knock satellite radio, but from what I've experienced so far, it is just not worth it.
I recently signed up for a free XM trial online. Limited to roughly 80 channels, the trial lasts only a few days and takes place entirely online where it seems all the ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Members of the American Legion can now sign up for VetCam, a free video conferencing website that allows Legion members to talk face to face with friends and family in the Armed Forces without either party having to download additional software.
Looks like it's Windows only however:
For this free one-on-one video ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Friend Tim Showers did a blog post not too long ago called "Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents" where he introduced me to a Wordle. A Wordle is also embedded above from the NY Times Visualization Lab. I haven't explored the Times site extensively, but it looks like there are some ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Damn you Twitter. You are always coming up with blog worthy stuff. This time it is some spiffy election page. It basically a big filter to show only election related tweets, you know, tweets with the candidates and/or VP candidates names in them. And the interface is slick because it ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
What do you know, Twitter issues. When I try going to twitter it says:
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
The TechCrunch50 continues today and into tomorrow. From what I can gather it is conference of basically 50 online start-ups who each give a presentation that explains and demos their site/service.
Today there is a panel of some sort of "judges" that are giving feedback on each company that gives their ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
12Seconds.tv launched in late July with a Twitter-like purpose. Let others know where you are and what you're doing, but 12Seconds does it with video -- up to 12 seconds worth at a time.
Mowing on 12seconds.tv
Embedded above is 12Seconds user tw3nty3ight mowing grass.
One point ABC News makes in its ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Don't know why, but I'm now on "micro-blogging" service Twitter. Find me at www.twitter.com/dipps. My "tweets" will also be here at Nearly A Nerd in a widget on the right sidebar. Also grabbed Twitterrific for the iPhone, but haven't got a chance to use it.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Muxtape allows you to make and share mixtapes, only without the tape and in mp3 form. Create a free account, then upload and arrange up to 12 tracks. You'll then have a custom URL to share. Users can also subscribe to other user's RSS feeds and become "fans" of muxtapes.
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