Sites that I found interesting for June 11th 2009 through June 12th 2009: Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified – Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified. Ain’t She a Beauty? – A Look at Some HTPC Chassis Solutions. Via @Java_Jack on Twitter. LG Ships First Netflix-Ready HDTV Sets – LG [...]
Hulu labs has launched Hulu Desktop. Desktop is a new program that lets you sit back from the PC and navigate Hulu via a standard remote control. It is currently available for both Windows and Mac. It would be better if we could just use all the features from with in Vista or Windows 7 [...]
This week, a coworker gave me this really handy tip. If you do a lot of command line work in Windows, this tip will let you pipe the output of a command line program into the Windows Clipboard. You can then use Windows paste feature to paste the output into Notepad or anywhere else that [...]
There are some web sites out there that make things hard to read. I don’t mean for quick browsing. Most of us who have been using the web for any length of time have trained ourselves to get the gestalt of a page fairly quickly. I mean for time when you really want to read [...]
Many people use various social services to stay in touch and to keep up with current events. One of my current favorites is Twitter. Over a year ago, Twitter turned off a service, called Track, that let you track topics. Track let you ‘follow’ a topic whether it was in your twitter stream of followers [...]
I recently posted my TED Link Monitor. There is another conference of great minds going on this weekend too, BIL ( Benevolence. Inspiration. Luminary.) So I have built a similar link monitor for capturing Tweets with links. I won’t go into all the details. Basically the same with different search criteria as the TED link. [...]
Right now, the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference is going on in Long Beach, California. As is the case with many conferences these days attendees are Tweeting (posting to Twitter) the event. Twitter has become the unofficial back-channel. Sometimes they link to things a speaker is talking about or other useful links. There is a [...]
One of my favorite applications for Twitter is TweetDeck. TweetDeck comes as close to my idea of the Ultimate Twitter Client as there is. It lets me set up groups and watch keywords and arrange a sort of dashboard to keep track of everything. The main downside to this is if something goes wrong. Once [...]
UPDATE 22APR09: This has all changed yet again. I’m leaving the bulk of this here for historic purposes so scroll to the update section at the bottom. Ever want to use the RSS feed from your Facebook status? Well, this is ridiculously harder to find than it should be so I thought I’d do a [...]
I built this map using Yahoo! Pipes. Information comes form Memorandum (political meme tracker) and Vote08 (twitter news tracker). Uses the geonames.org RSS-to-geoRSS webservice to add location information to newsfeeds then the result is displayed using the Yahoo!Maps AJAX API (thanks to Pipes Location Extractor). Map below: CNN has a nice map for monitoring returns.