Archive for February, 2007
Speaking of nerdy widgets, Random House and HarperCollins just came out with their own book widgets while I slept.
Both widgets allow you to read and search books, but the Random House widget is the clear winner for its self-contained design. Contrast it with the clunkier HarperCollins one.
For a good example, check out the widget [...]
Yes, even nerdier than manual pseudo-widgets for Wikipedia faves and Wordie lists. I’m talking real, creative web widgets for embedding on your blog, Myspace and wherever else you assert your precious individuality online.
YouTube arguably democratized the widget revolution with the embeddable video. Give people code, they showed, and they’ll run with it and spread [...]
Startup Your Lists
2 Comments Published February 27th, 2007, 9:50pm in Analysis, Curiosities, Ideas, Lists, New York.List of White Label Social Networking Platforms
Growing like Tom’s friend list.
10 Company Name Types on TechCrunch
Compound or blend?
Ning - Create Your Own Social Network for Anything
Now everyone create their own social network so we can build a social social-network network.
What the Web’s most popular sites are running on
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
New York Gets Googled
Google’s [...]
The Great American Browser History Novel
2 Comments Published February 20th, 2007, 9:31pm in Analysis, Effects.After I posted this silly pseudo-widget idea, Lauren emailed to say: “Wouldn’t an automated Wikipedia contrails widget be an imposition on your browser history? Scary!”
Maybe, but Slifeshare, which tracks every minute of your online activity in order to find other people doing similar things, is approximately 100 times scarier. Yet isn’t this what all this [...]
Historical Society Podcast Roundup
1 Comment Published February 16th, 2007, 1:24am in Curiosities, Ideas, Lists, Marketing.New York, 1890. From How the Other Half Lives.
While doing some research for 92nd Street Y work, I walked right into the exploding world of museum podcasts. If you work for a museum and you don’t have a podcast, I discreetly suggest you get with it. Head for the Museum Podcast Directory.
But while I love [...]
Next time you spend $30 million setting up your own private YouTube and securing 5,000 words of rhythmic, measured praise in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, DON’T kill all the hype on Monday with a PATRIOT Act-compliant registration process that demands the real names, locations and birthdates of curious visitors so that they can [...]
The Big List of Bookish Social Networks
26 Comments Published February 5th, 2007, 2:35am in Analysis, Ideas, Lists.As I mentioned when I discovered Wordie and Coastr, I’ve yet to find a book-oriented social network that’s inspired me to register. And it’s not like there’s any shortage of them. Here’s an alphabetical list of all the players I know of, annotated with deconstructive criticism. The bold-face names are serious contenders.
aNobii: Multilingual Hong Kong-based [...]
