80 articles in this selection

2011/06/09

API for sentiment analysis

2010/11/10

People still talk about social media as if it was a nascent phenomenon. They seem to forget that social media has been around now for at least five full years, which equates to a millennium in tech terms. But where are all the success stories? The Financial Brand spends at least two hours every day combing the web for interesting financial marketing case studies, and how many truly effective social media marketing examples have we seen? Maybe a couple dozen…in three years....

2010/10/05

A number of people have asked and speculated about why the company I co-founded, Wesabe, shut down earlier this summer. Some of the claims or guesses about it are just factually wrong; others seem misinformed to me; others seem to have some truth. I thought I'd add my own opinion....

2010/08/30

you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small think tank, bgC3, e-mailed him about the nonprofit khanacademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. Gates replied within minutes. "This guy is amazing," he wrote. "It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources." Gates and his 11-year-old son, Rory, began soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. Then, several weeks ago, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in front of 2,000 people, Gates gave the 33-year-old Khan a shout-out that any entrepreneur would kill for. Ruminating on what he called the "mind-blowing misallocation" of resources away from education, Gates touted the "unbelievable" 10- to 15-minute Khan Academy tutorials "I've been using with my kids." With admiration and surprise, the world's second-richest person noted t...

2010/08/24

Welcome to the Digital Methods course, which is a focused section of the more expansive Digital Methods wiki. The Digital Methods course consists of seven units with digital research protocols, specially developed tools, tutorials as well as sample projects. In particular this course is dedicated to how else links, Websites, engines and other digital objects and spaces may be studied, if methods were to follow the medium, as opposed to importing standard methods from the social sciences more generally, including surveys, interviews and observation. Here digital methods are central. Short literature reviews are followed by distinctive digital methods approaches, step-by-step guides and exemplary projects....

2010/08/05

Google Wave is shutting down and merging into other Google projects. Even if the app itself didn't gain traction, it made us think about the tools we use to collaborate. Here are some of the best non-Wave project and communication tools around.

2010/07/29

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively....

2010/07/24

Application that tracks how much time you spend on various applications.

2010/07/19

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch stirred the post today with a post titled Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions. The premise is: * Embarrassing stuff about anybody can be found. * Deal with it. * If there’s embarrassing stuff about EVERYBODY out there, maybe our societal norms will loosen up and get more tolerant....

2010/07/14

Web-based financial management tools have grown in sophistication to the point where many people manage their entire financial lives with online tools. Here's a look at five of the most popular personal money management sites.

2010/07/08

Online WiFi analyzer

2009/12/21

Rage Against The Machine have sensationally outsold X Factor winner Joe McElderry to take the Christmas number one! Thanks to a Facebook led campaign, the Los Angeles band's 1992 anthem 'Killing In The Name' has secured the Yuletide top spot after shifting 502,000 downloads, according to the Official Charts Company....

2009/09/27

A lot of websites use Javascript Carousel to showcase its products, portfolio and also as a image gallery. I have collected 14 Javascript Carousel made with jQuery, Mootool, Prototype and Yahoo Framework and I am sure you will be able to find one that suits you....

2009/06/08

There is no offi­cial stan­dard for what makes some­thing “Web 2.0”, but there cer­tainly are a few tell-​tale signs. These new sites usu­ally fea­ture modern web tech­nolo­gies like Ajax and often have some­thing to do with build­ing online com­mu­ni­ties. But even more char­ac­ter­is­tic among these brands is their appear­ance. Web 2.0 sites nearly always feel open and friendly and often use small chunks of large type. The colors are bright and cheery — lots of blue, orange, and what we jok­ingly call the Offi­cial Color of Web 2.0: lime green....

2009/06/08

This web 2.0 text logo tutorial was made for beginners as well as intermediate users, ill be doing it step by step and try not to skip anything so expect it too be long and easy!

2009/04/17

Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.

2009/03/29

Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures

2009/03/18

A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away.

2009/03/13

In this article, you’ll read about 12 neat web tools that will lend you a hand in finding and choosing domain names. You’ll find a variety of search and suggestion tools that have an assortment of features so that, hopefully, you’ll discover a few favorites....

2009/03/11

That's it! Qwitter checks your followers and notifies you as often as it can, depending on how many people are using it and how many followers they have.

2009/03/10

Decades of psycho-social research on team work suggests that effective teams have both strong task-based behaviour as well as good social cohesion.

2009/03/10

In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

2009/03/05

SaaS Business Intelligence provider, looks ok, but not too impressive.

2009/03/02

Recently, Britta Meyer of Eurekster, which makes an embeddable custom social search portal called a “Swicki”, posed a question on LinkedIn about how one would go about defining a social media marketing roadmap, and how you would prioritize each social media channel....

2009/02/27

If you are a Microsoft ® Outlook ® user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications. OutTwit seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook.

2009/02/25

There are hundreds of excellent Twitter resources all over the internet, but until now, they were hard to find and implement. This Twitter Resource Book introduces you to the best Twitter Tips and Twitter How tos… period. Each chapter contains several links to hand-picked blog posts that help you improve your Twitter skills and attract more Twitter followers today....

2009/02/23

Since Web Designer Wall launched, I’ve been featuring a lot of graphic intense websites such as the artistic, large background, vintage, and illustrative styles. Now it is time to feature the minimalist design. Here is a massive list of 50 minimal sites. See how designers use minimal elements to create high visual impact — less is more....

2009/02/19

We are pleased to announce the release of our first research prototype of a social dynamic analysis tool for Wikipedia called WikiDashboard. The idea is that if we provide social transparency and enable attribution of work to individual workers in Wikipedia, then this will eventually result in increased credibility and trust in the page content, and therefore higher levels of trust in Wikipedia....

2009/02/14

Sure, the Twitter guys still have no idea how to make money off their fabulous invention. But for now they are living in a dreamworld of infinite possibilities, maybe the last one on Earth.

2009/02/14

Companies using Twitter for commercial purposes may soon start getting charged for that activity, according to an interview British trade magazine Marketing (part of BrandRepublic) held with co-founder Biz Stone.

2009/02/13

We review 15+ internet startups per working day. Vote for the one you think will be a killer.

2009/02/13

Widgets/desktop in a browser. Like a Meebo, MacOS Dock and Yahoo Widgets mashup

2009/02/09

With Lovely Charts's extremely simple and intuitive drag'n drop drawing mechanism, you'll be able to focus on what really matters. You won't have to draw boxes and arrows, you won't have to worry about what symbol to use.

2009/02/04

Tools to test website performance.

2009/01/23

Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) led by John Newton, founder of Documentum, and John Powell, former COO of Business Objects, and is backed by Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and SAP Ventures.

2009/01/22

Daily Internet Culture

2009/01/18

2009/01/18

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

2009/01/18

2009/01/14

TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans.

2009/01/01

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick....

2008/12/29

eyeOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With eyeOS, you will have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neighbour's house. Just open a web browser, connect to your eyeOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time....

2008/11/18

The importance of establishing a strong social media presence has been discussed to exhaustion. You know that you need to be an active user on these sites because social media can produce numerous benefits for you and your brand. Of course, as the bandwagon for social media has filled up, many myths have been spread....

2008/11/11

Easy and free geocoder that can be called through an API.

2008/11/11

Freebase, created by Metaweb Technologies, is an open database of the world’s information. It’s built by the community and for the community – free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.

2008/10/24

There are a lot of tutorials on how to make CSS bar graphs. But sometimes, bar graphs aren't enough. What if our data tracks change over time and a line graph is more appropriate? Or maybe we're not satisfied with just a bar graph. Enter Flot, ajQuery plugin that lets us make good looking graphs with ease....

2008/10/22

In the not too distant past, the Web was all about sharing, broadcasting, and distribution. The tide is turning. The Web is moving towards the individual. Applications spring up every month that let people track, monitor, and analyze their habits and behaviors in hopes of gaining a better understanding about themselves and their surroundings....

2008/10/17

APIs news, how-to, contests and comprehensive database of API resources.

2008/10/16

Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle....

2008/10/16

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project....

2008/10/15

Huge collection of web design, development, marketing and website maintenance resources.

2008/10/15

This is an attempt to synthesize, analyze and categorize all of the responses from RWW, digg and Twitter. What is next after Web 2.0? Read on!

2008/10/14

Ever wanted to add some AJAX effects to your site to create a great and interactive looking site. Here’s a list of 48 of the best Mootools scripts around there (e.g. image galleries, lightbox clones, tabbed contents, forms, menus, tables, date pickers…)....

2008/10/13

A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. The only exception is mashups, which will increase in price over the next 5 years....

2008/10/13

2008/10/13

This tutorial will show you how to create a mashup of three different APIs including integration with Google Maps. This idea came about when I was searching through ProgrammableWeb's API directory for a couple APIs that complimented each other enough that I could use one to provide the other with data. What I came up with will be known as the "Beer Mashup"....

2008/10/10

Web magazine dedicated to web design.

2008/10/06

2008/10/03

Marketers today are caught up in a jumble of buzzwords that mean very little. It's a confusing time, but to get the marketing right, you need to start thinking about relationships first.

2008/09/27

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That's where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website....

2008/09/23

2008/09/23

2008/09/21

Search for a Surname to view its Map and Statistics.

2008/09/19

Welcome to the Viral Marketing Glossary. Here you'll find definitions for some terms common (and not-so-common) to various types of viral marketing, including social media, buzz, and word-of-mouth.

2008/09/09

Applying for a job you really want? To be seriously considered, you have to solve two problems. Your resume has to stand out, then you must shine in the first interview. VisualCV solves both for you ... securely and online.

2008/09/09

Because time is valuable, we deliver quick and easy learning. At W3Schools, you can study everything you need to learn, in an accessible and handy format.

2008/08/25

The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate.

2008/08/22

So unless you live under a non-Web 2.0-enabled rock, you’ve probably heard of the magic of the Google maps API and google maps mashups. If you’re saavy, you’ve probably even heard that now Google Maps offer translation of addresses into latitude and longitude, aka Geocoding....

2008/08/22

This tutorial is intended to help you create your own interactive maps using the Google API.

2008/08/10

Social networking site for business contacts.

2008/07/28

Lucky for me, there are a lot of helpful tools that can turn color coordination nightmares into a dream come true If you’re in the same boat as I am, have a look at some of these sites I unearthed from my bookmarks.

2008/07/28

Generates a color scheme randomly or based on a basecolor.

2008/07/20

Ajax diagonal stripes background designer, can be used to generate web 2.0 like background patterns.

2008/07/14

Create and lay out tag clouds, can use del.icio.us as an input

2008/05/26

At a time when anyone can broadcast their opinions about your startup to the world, public relations requires a new level of engagement on the part of companies and entrepreneurs. But what are the new rules of PR?

2008/05/19

Exhibit enables web site authors to create dynamic exhibits of their collections without resorting to complex database and server-side technologies. The collections can be searched and browsed using faceted browsing. Assorted views are provided including...

2008/05/19

To start off my short series of articles on minimalist designs, I collected over 40 minimalist web designs to showcase what minimalist design looks like for those of you who are not familiar with it, and to provide inspiration for those of you who do.

2008/05/16

Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated conte...

2008/05/15

In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web ("2.0") design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs....

2008/05/15

Web 2.0 is beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you are planning on designing a web 2.0-project, you probab...