Things You Might’ve Missed on the Superhighway for Internet Tubes
Bacn is a new term for any email you receive that isn’t spam but isn’t a personal message. For example, an electronic bill that you get through email is bacn. It’s been Web 2.0-ized so it’s not spelled bacon, it’s bacn. I just don’t like that it’s pronounced “bacn.” It should be pronounced “back-en.” I [...]
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24 Aug 2007Thumbalizr is a simple site offering a simple service. You enter in a URL and it produces a thumbnail. You can also choose what size thumbnail you’d like it to create. Thumbnail is a little misleading because it’s really creating a screenshot of just the website. It’s actually a great tool to “quickly” create [...]
Dandelife is a “social biography site”. People can add their events on a timeline. You can wander around to other timelines and biographies. It’s like how people on mySpace blog about things they’ve done or places they’ve been but much more organized. One cool feature is the integration with your Flickr account. You can associate [...]
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12 May 2006Here are some screenshots Erica Joy took of Google’s new service that is going to come out next week called Google Notebook. It seems like Google Notebook is a tag-based search service. It is pretty much a direct competitor to del.ico.us.
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30 Jan 2006NewsVine is another Web 2.0 website. They give you news and the ability to blog the news in a different way then other websites. It’s started by Mike Davidson with some other people that he worked with at ESPN and Disney. I’ve been following Mike’s blog ever since I found a good article about CSS, [...]