Future of online advertising
Uno as Online
Feb|28|2007
http://futureofonlineadvertising.com/
yess……
Clipmarks for research
Uno as Web2.0
Feb|28|2007
Clipmarks is:
The NY-based team at Clipmarks
just launched 2.0 of their product, a unique web clipping system that
allows you to take just the paragraphs, sentences, or multimedia you
want from a page while maintaining a link to the original document.Their CEO, Eric Goldstein, was a lawyer who was fed up with cutting
and pasting citations into a Word file only to discover that the 100
page mess became unreadable and unusable. He and his team launched a
first iteration of the product, which Marshall looked at months ago,
but the latest version is considerably more fully-featured and quite
interesting.
I had the same thing, while I was doing research I often found that I wanted to copy and paste references, but at the end of the day I couldn’t remember where they came from! Traditional referencing is ridiculously out of date… What? You’re referencing to a book page? ugh! How do you expect me to read that!
via: Techcrunch
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GeekDinner Quotes
Uno as Web2.0
Feb|28|2007
The best out of context quotes I picked up:
“I’m struggling to keep my hand to my mouth”
“Cape Town doesn’t suck, it blows.”
Add yours below here.
Geekdinner on LinkedIn
Feb|28|2007
Last night got me thinking on how really use the networks that you’ve established at networking events. Sure, you have the business card and you file it, use it or watever, but how do you translate the really cool knowledge that you picked up from talking to people? We can do this informally, I’d like to say somewhere that I had a really cool chat with Stii and his ideas are awesome, but I have no way to tie this in with the event.
The problem I’m faced with: How do I show the social networks that I have offline, online.
And then I thought of LinkedIn. Up till now I’ve only really used LinkedIn for projects that I’ve been involved in, but I’ve met so many people. For e.g. I’ve met Dave and Mike, and I think they are brilliant people. But how do I tell other people that? There is no archive that I can use. Typically (ok, this isn’t necessarily how it works..), say Dave tells a client lead, “check out my LinkedIn profile and see what I’ve been busy with”. But how does the client know that there are 500 people who think Dave is brilliant? Not up till now….
Christ, Stefan and myself are best friends, but there is no way for me to refer him! We haven’t worked on any “projects” together! (up till now… hear the drums of war)
I’ve created an “event” in LinkedIn, that if you spoke to me, or we interacted in someway then you can Recommend me, like I’d do with Stian, if he’d have that up, and with a few other people as well. You can view my LinkedIn profile here, and recommend me:)
Technorati Tags: linkedin, refer, recommend, geekdinner, 27, referral system,
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Uno as Uncategorized
Feb|28|2007
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Uno as Uncategorized
Feb|26|2007
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Web2.0 for food recipes
GoogleReader one-up on Del.icio.us?
Feb|26|2007
A while back Mike Stopforth posted How To Use del.icio.us To Take Over The World, which is a pretty good reflection of how I use del.icio.us as well. I keep up on what other people find interesting.
What I don’t use it for though is to tag every single blogposting that I find interesting - it’s sometimes a cumbersome and attention-diverting action to tag with del.icio.us, even if you use all the nifty firefox plugins. I have a list of about 250 blogs that I try and read, although I often only end up going through about 20 of them regulary (actually, that’s a thumbsuck number, it could be 5 or it could be 50…). I sometimes find it fairly frustrating to save all my new information. I was a fan of FeedDemon (where I used the Newsbin feature, but lost all of it once I had to reinstall a few times), but switched over to test drive Google Reader and I’m loving it.
There are a few sniggles here and there, but otherwise it works fine. One of the niftiest coolest best features that I’ve seen in Google Reader is the ability to Share something. When I click on Share at the bottom of a posting it syndicates that into a feed, which ends up here at Uno’s shared items. Ofcourse, what would this be without a feed? And if I wasn’t hosting at Wordpress (as opposed to having my own install) I would have a nifty little widget along the side there. Or at the bottom. (This theme sucks… I need to change).
Ofcourse, Del.icio.us gives much richer, more semantic data with the added feature of tagging, but Google Reader is just sooo damn easy to use! It’s just one click and it’s shared, and more importantly archived. I still need to actually use the “ToRead” tag, meaning tagging stuff and reading it later. Damn I’m a lazy git.
Technorati Tags: del.icio.us, feed, google reader, syndication, share,
Disa Park towers beautification
Feb|25|2007
Imagine.. if only we could change this:
into this:
The residences of Ramenskoye (southeast of Moscow) are painted with giant, colorful murals that run the whole height and breadth of these enormous, brutalist apartment blocks. Link (via Neatorama)
Technorati Tags: disa park, cape town, table mountain
M&G News in Photos = Yahoo Pipes?
Feb|25|2007
News spread quickly in the blogosphere about the M&G’s new The News in Photos (Beta) project. It looks very slick and although I haven’t played around with it enough I’m sure it works great as well. I remember a while back I was trying to look for images on the Cape Town riots/striking that got out of hand but couldn’t find anything on the traditional news sites, so I turned to the likes of Flickr and… still found nothing. I wonder if SA is educated enough yet?
On the other hand, finding info on the Paris riots was very easy (and with amazing photo’s as well!), just the same with the London bombings, and recently the MSC Napoli that ran aground. In all these cases the pictures were taken by pro/semi-pro photographers who managed to get their pics up in a lot of big name newspapers.
But let’s leave that there, my point at the moment is that there is a lot of content on sites already, I’m not that sure if SA is on the same level yet (hopefully I’m wrong).
So then along comes Yahoo Pipes. For those not in the loop (or pipe):
about pipes
Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using
Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
Ok great, so now what happened? New York Times Thru Flickr happened:
This Pipe takes the New York Times homepage, passes it thru Content Analysis and uses the keywords to find Photos at Flickr.
If I understand correctly, it matches photos in Flickr with the articles in New York Times. At the moment it’s completey ridiculous and hopelessly amateurish, I think the Content Analysis is hopeless or people are playing with keywords. But in some way, there is a mild corrolation at least.
M&G brought out the slick version, with a whole bunch of cool features. Now trying to aggregate from other sources could be a cool new feature.
Technorati Tags: m&g, mail, guardian, news in photos, web2.0, south africa, newspaper, citizen journalism
Freelancentral
Feb|25|2007
One of the great things that I managed to check out at Design Indaba was Freelancentral:
Freelancentral is an online directory of freelancers in South Africa’s creative industries. We’re here to make it easy for freelancers to find work, and for clients to find the people they need. Our aim is to promote freelancing as an aspirational, respected and reputable way of working.
Awesome concept. I haven’t had enough time to play around with everything yet, but it looks like it can be quite a powerful tool. The profiles are still a bit sparse, with few of them having photos and a good description, but hopefully something like this could grow quite nicely. It would be nice if they could include some other linking, make it possible to syndicate your blog, Flickr (or other portfolio services) add some LinkedIn widgets, that kind of thing (are there widgets for your own site?).
These tools are really great, but companys developing webproducts need to remember that they aren’t operating in a bubble, people build up masses of content in other areas (such as LinkedIn), which is syndicated a lot of the time (like Flickr, LinkedIn might have an open API, but there ain’t no RSS there!) so it’s easy to capture. Why build up a whole new list of referees when you can import them from LinkedIn? Ofcourse, now you probably need to ask how many of Cape Town freelancers are on LinkedIn or any other professional network?
This is where the space for theory around concepts such as Identity 2.0 come in (sites that aggregate all your identity, or serve as a clearinghouse for your Web2.0 personality, Stefan has made his own over here).
The other thing, you don’t want people to come over to your site and then move over to your competitors! I think what makes Freelancentral great (at the moment) is it’s geographical element, it’s localised to South Africa, but scaling this to a greater level really isn’t too difficult and would only mean some minor changes.
Technorati Tags: web2.0, freelancentral.co.za, web, linkedin, portfolio, south africa, design indaba