palmit.commentary: May 2008 Archives

May 27, 2008

Tag Galaxy - a new way to search Flickr

Tag Galaxy provides a very visual tag-based search tool for Flickr - check it out. IMO Google really needs to start working (they probably already are) on more visual search tools like this for the Web. Browsing search results like this provides a better, or at least more interesting, user experience. If Google is working on this kind of thing - they should start releasing some of the work as Google Labs projects. DIGG also sports cool visual search tools. WARNING: Tag Galaxy was built by Germans so watch out for David Hasselhoff avatars.

May 23, 2008

Sturdy Chest by Studley

Sturdy Chest

One of the presenters here at the Webvisions conference today used this image in his presentation. A master carpenter and stonemason named Henry Studley built this to carry his collection of tools. Excellent bit of craftmanship - really impressive. It was used illustrate the Rails framework. Read more about it.

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Puppet Interviews - Dove Deeper

During the lunch break here at the Webvisions event I dove a little deeper into Loren Feldman's "Puppet Interviews" series and discovered this gem. - The Mike Arrington Show (embeded below). Man, my stomach was in knots by the time I finished watching this.

and now compare it with the real deal

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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.blogging
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Puppet Interviews

More puppet interviews - a Loren Feldman thing.

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Yahoo! IM for MAC

I just noticed that Yahoo! IM for the MAC (v. 3.0 BETA) has a built-in active spell checker. Awesome. I don't think this is available in the PC version.

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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.apple
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TransferBigFiles

TransferBigFiles - another cool way to quickly transfer a large file.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web
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May 22, 2008

Obama Ads

I really don't like the fact that Google Adsense is dumping "Obama Exposed" ads on my blog. I'm an Obama supporter and I'm about to pull Adsense from my blog because of this. Is there anything I can do in my Adsense setup to solve this problem? Maybe the new Ad Review Center will do the trick for me. Maybe I can switch out the "Obama Exposed" ads for the "Impeach Bush" ads ; )

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Categories: misc, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.blogging, tech.commentary.google, tech.commentary.web
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Webvisions

I'm at the Webvisions conference in Portland Or today and possibly tomorrow if the sessions don't bore me too much. I typically stay away from conferences like this because I think they just don't go deep enough but this was close to home so I thought it was worth a shot and the $250 registration fee.

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May 14, 2008

Drop.io

Drop.io looks like a really cool tool for simple large file transfers. File transfers up to 100mb are free.

Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops."

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web
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May 13, 2008

Searching Gmail

Great tips on using search operators to improve your Gmail searches. Now if I could only remember a few of these.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.google
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Lists of Twittering journalists - good people to Follow

Thanks to my-creativeteam.com for lists of Twittering journalists part 1 and part 2. I'm following a few of these now.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.blogging
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Viewzi

Viewzi, a new visual search engine, looks promising. I'm surprised Google isn't playing around with visual search more - text heavy search results aren't going to last forever.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.google, tech.commentary.web
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The airline industry is stupid ...

Surf Report: Ed Cone talks about the stupid airline industry. I agree with Ed - the airline industry is stupid. I recently had a similar experience on a United flight but I was one of the guys that paid (in advance) for the Economy Plus seat. Tall people (I'm 6' 5") think about these kinds of things in advance ; ) By the way Ed - I would have been pretty pissed if they let people move into the Economy Plus seats that didn't pay for the extra inch. I'm pretty sure smarter airlines will start to emerge from this mess.

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Categories: business.commentary, surf report
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My money is on Craigslist

eBay Vs. Craigslist - my money is on Craigslist

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web
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More button just added to Google Maps

A *More* button was just added to Google Maps. Clicking *More* gives you the option of displaying Wikipedia articles associated with the map you're viewing and photos from Panoramio. Google Maps just gets better. Love it. Read more about the *More* button.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary.google, tech.commentary.mobile, tech.commentary.web
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firefly demo on scripting.com

Wow, take a look at the firefly demo Dave Winer has up on scripting.com - neat. firefly makes it easy for you to interact with the other people viewing the web page you're on.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web
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May 12, 2008

New Google Reader for iPhone

Cool new Google Reader iPhone interface available at http://www.google.com/reader/i/ Big improvement over the previous version.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.apple, tech.commentary.iphone, tech.commentary.mobile
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R2-D2 Projector / Awsome

R2-D2 projector featured on Gizmodo. Awesome. Watch the video.

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Categories: surf report, tech.commentary, tech.commentary.gadgets
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May 06, 2008

New York

Last week I had an opportunity to visit New York - it was my visit so I made the most of it. I was in New York promoting Email Center Pro at a CrunchGear meetup. We had a great time at the event and had some time to visit a few of the more popular attractions. Things like the MOMA, the MET, Central Park, and the Empire State Building.

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Categories: misc, photography
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May 01, 2008

Mark / by Chuck Close / acrylic - amazing

Mark / by Chuck Close / acrylic - amazing, originally uploaded by Cale Bruckner.

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Where am I?

Where am I?, originally uploaded by Cale Bruckner.