I’ve seen a number of mentions of Twine, and I got an invite today, so I decided to give it a try. And after tinkering with it a littel while I’m not quite sure what it does. I thinks its one of those technologies that really starts to shine when you’ve got a group actively using it. For instance they mention features such as auto-tagging and auto recommendations. But these don’t really do much when you’ve only got a couple of items in there.
Google maps isn’t the only game in town for your map mashups. This article offers a very complete overview of how mapping servers work, and alternatives to the omnipresent google. The article is really for someone with some understanding of programming and web applications. Buts its also general enough that anyone can get a sense of how web mapping applications work.
I say AMEN to this blog post at ReadWriteWeb. I barely have time to keep up with the live social contacts in my life, let alone manage a virtual life! Sure I’ve got a FaceBook account, but I keep it mostly to keep up with the technology (and to prove to my kids that I’m ‘with it’!) I rarely ever check it except when I get the occasional friend request. I’m quite happy at the moment as a mostly passive consumer of RSS feeds and podcasts.
I’ve seen a couple of posts in recent weeks on the current and future state of blogging. Part of the discussion surrounds the ease of commenting on others posts on external sites, which takes the conversation out of the creator’s site. In particular new sites like Shyftr allow individuals to share content they read from multiple blogs in one place, and comment on them there. In this case all conversation goes someplace else. The other theme in the future of blogging is that services like Twitter, MySpace and RSS aggregators are the real future.
I’ve working on a video project with a faculty member who is using YouSendIt to transfer the files. The files I’m receiving are in the 500mb range, and the transfers are working very well. They’ve got a 14 day free trial, so you can check it out on a project and see if it’ll work for you. Its working great for us!
Something like nine months ago I first wrote of my struggles with the Adobe CS3 Installer. And that issue continues to be one of the most viewed posts in the entire blog, with the most comments. Just for the record I’ve continued to periodically have issues. For instance every week or so now I get the Adobe updater popping up, trying to update some files, and normally failing. And failing even when no other applications are open. Two months ago I ran a disk clean up operation and the only applications affected were CS3. After the clean up they all needed to have the license key re-entered. I am a daily user of photoshop and dreamweaver, and find those programs fantastic. So its really a shame that the installer issue has been so horribly handled.
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