Barb Dybwad
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Barb Dybwad is the Associate Editor at Weblogs, Inc. She is also senior editor at Engadget and senior editor of the Social Software Weblog. Before becoming a professional blogger she served her time in the corps of freelance web developers, coding sites for academia and small businesses in PHP and ColdFusion. Current interests are all things Web 2.0, social media, remix technologies, the mobile web, folksonomy, collaborative tools, and user-created content.
Filed under: Internet, News, Blogging, Web services, Yahoo!
This is pretty friggin' sweet -- Yahoo is integrating blog search with their news search, as well as adding Flickr photos and My Web 2.0 results into the mix. This brings together user-created and mainstream media in a way that's unprecedented, totally beating Google to the punch on this one as well as leveraging the goodness of both Flickr and My Web 2.0. The index only includes a subset of the larger blogosphere (those that are included in the My Yahoo feed directory), but will grow to ideally include everything from the blo.gs ping stream. The interface doesn't quite put blogs on equal footing visually -- they're off in a sidebar while the regular news search results are in the main pane -- but I actually sort of like the way this is done. It's not going to alienate mainstream users who want to stick with their traditional MSM sources, but will provide a still visible alternative. Social software nerds (raising hand), bloggers, and others already kicking back with their second (or fifth...) cocktail in the cluetrain dining car can just click on through to the interface that shows blog search results in the main pane and Flickr results in the sidebar at right (here's an example search on Web 2.0). I dig it. For once, I only have one small request -- I want a way to make the blog news search interface my default for news search, so I don't have to click through each time (with option to click through the the mainstream search results).Filed under: Internet, Photo, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Freeware, Open Source
by Barb Dybwad Sep 28th 2005
Huzzah -- a utility for backing up your Flickr photos in one fell swoop to a computer of your choice. Flickr Backup looks like a really handy way to corral all of those photos you've sent from various machines and cellphones into one safe backup location. It's a Java utility, cross-platform, and open source -- three things we tend to like as a general rule.
Filed under: Audio, Internet, News, E-mail, Freeware
Beware, it's "so alpha it makes us cry" -- but considering alpha is the new beta, Slawesome probably ends up doing alright. It's a simple web-based way to add a voice message to an email. The interface is dead simple, and all you need is a microphone of any flavor. I tried it. It worked. Party on.
Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Web services, Freeware
This has been getting a lot of buzz lately -- NetVibes is another personal portal in the vein of Google personalized home and Microsoft's Start page. You can syndicate RSS feeds in drag and droppable DIVs, embed a search widget, and get a preview pane for your Gmail account. One notably handy addition is the ability to add notes to a page, which adds some of the flavor of Protopage to the mix. I won't be too surprised if we keep seeing more of these gloriously AJAX-ified personal portal page offerings.Filed under: Developer, Text, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Freeware, Open Source
by Barb Dybwad Sep 26th 2005
Gobby is reminiscent of SubEthaEdit but will work in a mixed environment of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other UNIX flavors (SubEthaEdit is Mac only). It's a collaborative editing environment in which multiple authors on the same network can collaborate on text documents. Gobby also sports an IRC-like chat environment for communicating in realtime outside of the coding or authoring session. Each author can use a unique color to identify their contributions to the text. The app is only at version 0.2.2, so don't be too surprised if it's a little rough around the edges -- but the cross-platform aspect of this is definitely a step in the right direction.
[Via del.icio.us]
Here's another entrant into the growingly crowded space of social calendaring: Planzo bills itself as an "online planning community," allowing you to quickly and easily share your calendar entries via simple cut and paste. It speaks the Web 2.0 lingo: AJAX, RSS, XML, etc., and promises a dead easy interface with one click event creation and drag and drop event changes. The service offers ...
Take a dictionary, add AJAX-y goodness, season to taste and you've got ObjectGraph, a dictionary that displays results automagically with each keystroke. The interface works like Google Suggest, where a dropdown DIV element displays results as you type. You have your choice of four different word sets: Classical is the websters 1913 dictionary (which is rather amusingly out of date), the freely ...
In a rare, extremely cluetrain response from a corporation whose product has been hacked, Lego is actually welcoming the modification to its 3D design program that will enable users to avoid purchasing too many extra blocks when making custom kits. The backstory is that last month Lego launched a new program that lets users make custom Lego designs using the provided free 3D design software, then ...
Well, it was short but sweet while it lasted. The populicio.us service that tracked the fastest growing popular links on del.icio.us is now defunct. Developer xabi indicated in the farewell message that del.icio.us made some changes to the way links are displayed on the homepage, such that populicio.us could no longer generate real statistics. Good thing we've got Memeorandum to turn to!
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This is some pretty promising stuff -- the new incarnation of Memeorandum is an automated tech and politics blog news aggregator that hopes to keep an up-to-the-minute snapshot of what's hot in the blogosphere. The new code has only been public for a few days, so the sample size is still low -- but from what I've checked out so far, I'm genuinely impressed. The biggest caveat is that it's only ...
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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