I, and quite a few of the folk I correspond with, have been using what looks on the surface to be a great new feature of the Internet: Services that turn an unwieldy link into a short one. Enter the link you want to send someone into their website and it will create a unique … Read more
I’ve been quiet on Gmail because I wasn’t sure it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day prank, but it appears that it’s not. The view seems to be that it’s simple, powerful and feature-packed. What features could you put in webmail? Here are some I’ve seen referred to (see sources below): easy email threading, where connected … Read more
I’m a recent convert to treemaps — a way of presenting information in block form, where the block denote areas of information which can then be drilled through to reach the underlying text, pictures or whatever. It’s best explained by seeing an example. Anyway, here’s a great example of a treemap, applied to news (thanks … Read more
Is there a future for small, niche software? Clay Shirky thinks so, based on his work at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he found that students were ignoring the idea of writing big, scaleable, software for the world (the ‘Web School’) they were developing small, very specific programs — ‘situated software’, as Clay calls it … Read more
Post a comment on your old self from the future. Wonderful tool (thanks BoingBoing, via Marc), which allows you to send emails to yourself at any point in the future — assuming, of course, the site, FutureMe.org, is still functioning and you haven’t changed your email address. What is fascinating is to read other people’s … Read more