Most of you know about flickr, the online service to host images and photos. Now that Yahoo owns it, it replaces Yahoo photos. If you used Yahoo photos (as I did) Yahoo just migrated your photos for you right on over to flickr. 😉 If you have a Yahoo account now, but never signed up for a flickr account, you
So, some folks formerly of google have launched their own search engine, called, cuil. Looks coool, but then half of what I searched didn’t even turn up 1 hit. nada. zip. (including me!) Preferences are kind of light — typing suggestions and safe search. I didn’t see any advanced searching features. Overall display looks pretty cool though, and I like
Short powerpoint via slideshare about nexgenning the catalog, entitled freeing the data. Some commentary would have been nice to bring out some of the points a little more. A few notes on acronyms: CRM = Customer Relationship Management Drupal = opensource, content management (CMS) system; website development tool SDKs = Software development kits SIPs = Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is
Excellent article and overview of opensource, covering everything from licensing (yes, opensource has it), its evolution, security, issues, & more. Raymond has compared the development of OSS to a bazaar, where large numbers of interested individuals congregate to contribute (code contributors are called committers) or to provide peer review of the wares in the market (in this case, testing and
So, I thought instead of just answering questions via my mailbox or the comments, I would take those questions and expand them into a little post. Question: How to put a widget (Youtube badge, del.icio.us feed, facebook profile, etc.) you into Drupal? What module is needed? Answer: While there are modules for many social networking sites, depending on how the
Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I’m just going to do a roundup: Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted
So, I’m in the middle of a twebinar called Game Changing Moves: Who Really Owns Your Brand?Anyhow, so it’s a webinar with a twitter element thrown in and I am taking a break. The topic is interesting (branding in the web2.0+ world), but I think this might be more multitasking than my brain can handle. I’m having a hard time
Article about the new facebook user experience: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/the-friendfeedization-of-facebook/or to see it in action, login @ facebook and then go to>http://www.new.facebook.com/
So, I was tracking down some referrer spam last night and hit upon this (apologies to the creator, because I can’t figure out which website it is) and I thought the 404 I created was clever….
Uh-oh, I sometimes take the easy way out (i.e., use whatever format is supported by the software I have in front of me)… Text & Clipart — GIF or PNG formatScreenshots from Window — PNG formatVideo & Photographs screenshots — JPG format The article explains it more and also includes images comparing quality. http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/best-file-format-for-screenshot-images/3917/