Web aps

What a great list of web apps. I've added it to my del.icio.us bookmarks so I can check out more of them (in my copious spare time between 1 and 5 a.m. Who needs sleep?)

I'm surprised by how many of them I've heard of and used. I like Pandora. It's a fun way to listen to some new artists, and fun to see who they classify as similar to someone I like.

Zillow is great for watching the housing market. Seeing what properties are selling for in the neighborhood. Recently, a house was foreclosed on across the street after falling into disrepair. Someone (builder?) has bought it and fixed it up. It'll be interesting to see if he/she turns around and sells it, and how much for.

I checked out colorblender for the first time, which is an app that lets you identify a base color, then provides five matching colors. It's an easy way to establish a palette, although the choices seem rather predictable. It'd be cool if the developer expanded this so that you could select complementary colors, or accent colors etc.

What's amazing is seeing the apps that are being bought up by Google. Be great to create one of those!

dear creator

Dear creator of Zoho Writer--

Will you make flash drives obsolete?  The possibility defnitely exists since people will no longer need to email themselves documents that have been saved to a server.

Not sure I'm into the tagging idea of filing.  I like my files in one folder, and keeping my folders clearly labeled so I can go back.  Rarely does my system frustrate me.

This is so amazingly similar to Word.  Microsoft doesn't have copyright issues???????????

Time to try saving, page view, and publishing this to my blog.

Oh, and I just had to come back and edit.  This can be saved as a pdf!!!!!!!!!  That's awesome.

Well, and then, I thought I'd try the tags, since it was one of the questions for posting to the blog.

Oh, and then I really like that you can just update the blog posting if you edit.  

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And check that out.  An easy way to add a rule.
This could possibly be easier than Word.

What about print options?  Oh I get it.  That's only print as a pdf, not save as a pdf.


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Week 7!

Here a wiki, there a wiki, everywhere a wiki, wiki.

Since I've only created webpages in html and now on a wiki, this is a dramatic change in the ease of the process in a short time! How wonderful to be able to add content to a webpage so easily. I can see a page for staff picks/favorites (wouldn't that be fun!) Or what about the computer instructors having all their lesson plans on a wiki?

We produce so many documents where multiple people are contributing--reports, budget preparation work, etc. How much easier to put it all up in one place and edit it rather than emailing files back and forth.

I must admit that the actual doing was harder than I expected in the Sandbox. Once someone has done the set-up, then I think it's easy to add. But obviously someone has to do some thinking about setting up the overall organizational and visual structure of the pages--or as some of the pages on the PLCMC wiki demonstrate, it can get very messy, very quickly.

Library 2.0

I think Library 2.0 begins for Hartford Public Library when we open our online services to customer interaction--it could be on our website, or on HartfordInfo or our OPAC. The options are plentiful. The challenges will be how to balance the input with the need for control. We've always maintained patron privacy . . . what about if patrons elect to be public with user profiles? And seek to share their reading interests with other customers through booklists? What if users want to tag in HartfordInfo and locate other customers who share an interest in the same tags?

Something else that seems to have gone by the wayside is permissions . . . is there any discussion about seeking permissions to post information/photos/videos of others? It appears not.

And advertising . . . . the Library has kept its distance from advertising. Customers do not need to question if a commercial interest is pushing the information. Is it possible to integrate the 2.0 tools without the advertising?

Food for thought. Not barriers to implementation. Just proceed with caution.

Techo . . . rat

Can't say that Technorati is one of my favorite web apps . . . . can't say I've run across too many blogs that held my interest for long (perhaps someone can enlighten me?) Ads drove me completely nuts too -- too many flashing this and that.

simply del.icio.us

Today, I explored del.icio.us--created an account and saved a bunch of links on Vermont, where my daughter will be this summer. Not many people tagging the same links that I am. Maybe others aren't using it to create travel itineraries yet! Can definitely see that this would make bookmarking so much easier, and also the networking feature can help find new sources of information.

I'm trying to think how it would look with hundreds or thousands of entries . . .

Enter the tags Shelburne Art Museum and you will find newmoontofullmoon--

Rollyo yo yo

I can see how this would be useful if you wanted to do the same search repeatedly to save from having to go one by one to a bunch of different sites every day. Not sure if it's possible to integrate sites that already have their own search features e.g. I created a rollyo to search car dealerships for a particular style of used car. Using edmunds or cars.com is probably easier, but if I wanted to limit the search terms in a different way from those sites, say to just a few dealersherships, then this would be good.

Select...new moon to full mooncarSearch The Web

Library Thing

Wow. Now I can quit trying to keep track of all those little pieces of paper on which I've written down books that I want to read. It's interesting to see who else has read what I've read, and to get suggestions of what I might like. Not sure the conversations have much to offer--not many erudite comments from what I've seen so far.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/newmoontofullmoon

Spring Break in Texas

I am hoping that by simply copying and pasting the link here that I can get my flckr work, which I made a separate blog, to appear!

http://txspringbreak.blogspot.com/

RSS land

Well, I think I've completed the RSS feed excercise. I've been ambitious, adding RSS feeds from a range of sources--blogs, Youtube, a podcast, book reviews, a news search term, Flickr, a couple from Bloglines, and even Sandy's helpful hints. What a great way to keep up with a lot of information in a variety of formats.

Here's the link to my feeds: http://www.bloglines.com/public/newmoontofullmoon

Now to see if the link works!