Archive for
July, 2008
Posted on 18 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Get Invited! – 4 Ways to Obtain Access to Beta Sites
.A number of online services launch in Beta and require an invitation to access them. Here are four ways to obtain a coveted invite Twitter – if you have a large enough following you can request invites. I have given and received beta invitations via Twitter Invite Room on Friendfeed – Mark Krysnky created an [...]
Posted on 17 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Swurl My Online Activities
Swurl is another online aggregator of online activity. This visual lifestream pulls in information from delicious, flickr, yourtube, twitter, flickr and a number of other services. Swurl has been extensively reviewed by Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb, Lifestream Blog, and Ars Technica so I’m not going to go into all the details here. Out of the many services [...]
Posted on 16 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Disqus on Tumblr – Add Integrated Comments
A tumblelog is a type of microblog that uses mixed media, such as images, video clips and links, rather than longer article type posts used in traditional blogs. The best well known is probably tumblr. Tumblr can be used to lifestream by adding up to 5 feeds, such as flickr,
Posted on 15 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Bandwidth Usage – One Month Later
A month ago I monitored my bandwidth usage for one week to determine how I would be affected by metered pricing. I found that I would squeak by on Time Warner’s proposed plan and would be fine on Comcasts’. I decided to continue monitoring for a month in case the week that I tracked usage [...]
Posted on 14 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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MyJugaad.in – Create an Online Slideshow from RSS
Lo-fi librarian mentioned MyJugaad.in, which is a tool to create an online slideshow of webpages. You can use any RSS feed, popular sources such as google news, a tag on del.icio.us, or a list of sites. It seems as if all my projects recently involve using the Green Tweeter data but since the data is [...]
Posted on 13 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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(Anti) Social-Lists 7/13/08
Here is a list of my favorite online reads/finds of the week. Not every article was posted this week but I read it this week.
Posted on 11 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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More Green Twitter Google Spreadsheet Fun
In yesterday’s article, Green Twitter Google Pie, I mentioned that I had created additional gadgets from the Green Twitter RSS feed imported into Google Spreadsheets. The first is a word cloud of the top green tweeters per last 20 tweets – this uses the same spreadsheet data used to create the pie chart. I wanted [...]
Posted on 10 July, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Green Tweeter Google Pie
What Am I Doing? Since creating the two tag clouds for green tweeters and the blogs of green tweeters, I have been thinking about other ways of visualizing the data. What I wanted to to do was create a chart or table from the feed data but I was unsuccessful in locating a tool to [...]
Get Invited! – 4 Ways to Obtain Access to Beta Sites
.A number of online services launch in Beta and require an invitation to access them. Here are four ways to obtain a coveted invite Twitter – if you have a large enough following you can request invites. I have given and received beta invitations via Twitter Invite Room on Friendfeed – Mark Krysnky created an [...]
Swurl My Online Activities
Swurl is another online aggregator of online activity. This visual lifestream pulls in information from delicious, flickr, yourtube, twitter, flickr and a number of other services. Swurl has been extensively reviewed by Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb, Lifestream Blog, and Ars Technica so I’m not going to go into all the details here. Out of the many services [...]
Disqus on Tumblr – Add Integrated Comments
A tumblelog is a type of microblog that uses mixed media, such as images, video clips and links, rather than longer article type posts used in traditional blogs. The best well known is probably tumblr. Tumblr can be used to lifestream by adding up to 5 feeds, such as flickr,
Bandwidth Usage – One Month Later
A month ago I monitored my bandwidth usage for one week to determine how I would be affected by metered pricing. I found that I would squeak by on Time Warner’s proposed plan and would be fine on Comcasts’. I decided to continue monitoring for a month in case the week that I tracked usage [...]
MyJugaad.in – Create an Online Slideshow from RSS
Lo-fi librarian mentioned MyJugaad.in, which is a tool to create an online slideshow of webpages. You can use any RSS feed, popular sources such as google news, a tag on del.icio.us, or a list of sites. It seems as if all my projects recently involve using the Green Tweeter data but since the data is [...]
(Anti) Social-Lists 7/13/08
Here is a list of my favorite online reads/finds of the week. Not every article was posted this week but I read it this week.
More Green Twitter Google Spreadsheet Fun
In yesterday’s article, Green Twitter Google Pie, I mentioned that I had created additional gadgets from the Green Twitter RSS feed imported into Google Spreadsheets. The first is a word cloud of the top green tweeters per last 20 tweets – this uses the same spreadsheet data used to create the pie chart. I wanted [...]
Green Tweeter Google Pie
What Am I Doing? Since creating the two tag clouds for green tweeters and the blogs of green tweeters, I have been thinking about other ways of visualizing the data. What I wanted to to do was create a chart or table from the feed data but I was unsuccessful in locating a tool to [...]
