Archive for 'Bookmarks'

Jan200904

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Bookmarks for January 2nd through January 4th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for January 2nd through January 4th:

  • Portfolio websites for fine artists - OtherPeoplesPixels: "We've already designed a website for your artwork.

    You don't need to do any of the tough stuff, just plug in images of your work and your portfolio can be online today. If you already have a website, you can keep the same domain name. If not, we'll get the one you want and set it up. OtherPeoplesPixels was created by artists to help artists and students get their work online quickly and easily."

  • iamhuman | human individuality for non-human objects: "iamhuman laptop covers are the first product offering of a small design company in Seattle, WA. The concept began with the realization that we live, work and create with our computers each day. They contain our art, designs, and ideas. A lot of our creative energy and time is shared with our computers. Don't you think that should show on the outside?"
  • Zoombak Personal GPS Locators: "The Zoombak locator is one of the first Assisted-GPS (“A-GPS”) devices designed specifically for use by everyday consumers and will be sold nationwide at leading electronics and specialty pet retailers. Priced from $199 - $249, for pet and auto applications, respectively, Zoombak is smaller than a deck of cards and weighs less than three ounces, yet when activated can help find dogs and vehicles coast-to-coast, 24 hours a day and can promptly notify users about location by text message and email alerts."

Dec200930

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Bookmarks for December 13th through December 30th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for December 13th through December 30th:

  • Sunday 24/7 Personal Assistants: "AskSunday gives busy people the resources of a 24/7 personal assistant, travel agent, and dedicated full-time or part-time employee available via both email and telephone. AskSunday's affordable virtual assistant service is available across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and wherever else we can execute requests for our members in English."
  • GetFriday - Life gets better with GetFriday: "GetFriday is your personal virtual assistant. We will help you offload your time consuming and tedious tasks, leaving you to pursue more important things."
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk: "Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk service gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce and gives workers a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it's convenient.

    Amazon Mechanical Turk is based on the idea that there are still many things that human beings can do much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings, or researching data details. Traditionally, tasks like this have been accomplished by hiring a large temporary workforce (which is time consuming, expensive, and difficult to scale) or have gone undone."

  • Twollow: Auto-follow people on twitter.
  • Cake Wrecks: When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
  • Rowdy Sprout: The "Rowdy Sprout" rocker tees tap into a new vein of the childrens market. Appealing to the nostalgia of the generations before these tees make for an exquisite gift. While mocking the black concert tees previously available only to adults, a great irony and humor is captured and a new generation of rockers are born!
  • Photojojo » The Ultimate Guide to Time-Lapse Photography:
  • Five Best Online Job Search Sites: Looking for a new job in a struggling economy is hard work. Make it easier on yourself by getting to know the best tools for the task at hand.
  • Remote shutter trigger for Digital Cameras: Make a remote shutter release for your canon digital camera (and some other brands such as Pentax, sony, and some nikons) for about 3 bucks in under 5 minutes, even a 1st grader can do this. This is great for getting the perfect exposure, and enables you to go past the 30 second exposure offered with canon cameras.
  • Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher: With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
  • Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 DIY Photography Tools:
  • User Research Friday!: I so wish I lived closer to this venue. It would be a really great thing to replicate in West Michigan.
  • HTML-Ipsum:
  • 10 essential tasks to keep Leopard purring:

Dec200814

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Bookmarks for December 3rd through December 13th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for December 3rd through December 13th:

  • Xslimmer - Your Mac, on a Diet!: Xslimmer, the friendly way to right-size your apps without losing functionality.
  • Nice Translator - The fast, easy to use online translator: "NiceTranslator was created during the Fall of 2008 to provide an improved interface for translating text on the Web. Although web-technologies have advanced greatly recently, existing online translators remain cumbersome to use.

    Thanks to the Google Translation API, we were able to focus on designing a simple and functional online translator, unlike any other to date.

    We will continue to develop NiceTranslator over the coming months but will not stray from our initial purpose of providing an easy to use and straightforward online translator. "

  • Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: "Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world.

    Imagine nature's most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter "filter salt from water" and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels.

    Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution.

    That's the idea behind AskNature, the online inspiration source for the biomimicry community."

Dec200802

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Bookmarks for December 2nd

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for December 2nd

  • Social Media Monitoring Tools for PR Professionals – Radian6: "The impact of social media on public relations and advertising is fundamentally changing the profession. Brand ownership is no longer solely the domain of the institution. A brand is now defined as the sum of all conversations taking place amongst users and it's happening regardless of whether you are part of these conversations or not.

    Radian6 is focused on building the complete monitoring and analysis solution for PR and advertising professionals so they can be the experts in social media."

  • Poll Everywhere: "On the surface, Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. People vote by sending text messages to options displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation or web page will update in real time. Advanced uses include txt2screen, texting questions to a presenter, web voting, and SMS interactivity in print, radio, and TV."
  • Helvetireader: "A minimal interface theme for Google Reader."

Nov200829

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Bookmarks for November 17th through November 29th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for November 17th through November 29th:

  • Rypple - A little feedback goes a long way: "Rypple gets you quick, specific and private feedback from trusted advisers and co-workers. Use it frequently for honest advice that advances your career. Great for individuals, teams, companies and schools."
  • Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand: The Spoonflower community uses fabric to make quilts, clothes, pillows, dolls, blankets, handbags, framed textile art and many other things.
  • Convergence 08: Home: "Join a historic convergence of leading long term organizations and thought leaders. Two days with people at the forefront of world-changing technologies that may reshape our career, body and mind – that challenge our perception of what can and should be done.

    Convergence08 is an Unconference: each day starts and ends with an eye-opening debate or keynote to inspire us, and the remaining agenda is created by YOU."

Nov200813

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Bookmarks for November 11th through November 12th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for November 11th through November 12th:

  • Charter For Compassion: "By recognizing that the Golden Rule is fundamental to all world religions, the Charter for Compassion can inspire people to think differently about religion. This Charter is being created in a collaborative project by people from all over the world. It will be completed in 2009. Use this site to offer language you'd like to see included. Or inspire others by sharing your own story of compassion."
  • Google Flu Trends: "We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems."
  • Artsopolis.com: "Artsopolis.com is the leading online resource for Arts and Cultural information for the Silicon Valley region. It offers the largest database of Silicon Valley Arts and Cultural events, as well as additional listings of classes and workshops, jobs, auditions, organizations, venues, public art, and individual artists."

Nov200811

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Bookmarks for November 10th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for November 10th

  • myndology :: good thinking: "Our goal is to make stationery that helps you create, study and do whatever it is you want to do. And we believe in making the products look cool too. Hopefully we've achieved that. Myndology. The tagline "good thinking" says it all. Cleverly simple solutions to making the best stationery products in the world."
  • Business Innovation Factory: "The Business Innovation Factory is a community of innovators collaborating to explore and test better ways to deliver value."
  • ProlabExpress Home:

Nov200809

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Bookmarks for November 7th through November 9th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for November 7th through November 9th:

  • SolarCity: Solar panels & solar leasing for residential, commercial and government.
  • Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing: "Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community that used the wisdom of crowds to discover new business and technology ideas. Today, Cambrian House focuses on developing companies that emerged from our crowdsourced discoveries. Our portfolio includes Gwabs™, Greedy or Needy™, FilmRiot™ and the Chaordix™ crowdsourcing platform."
  • MightyQuiz: What Did You Learn Today?:

Nov200807

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Bookmarks for November 6th through November 7th

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for November 6th through November 7th:

  • Better Place: "Better Place is working to build an electric car network, using technology available today. Our goals? Sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil."
  • Dropbox: "Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy."
  • Yoics: Access and manage your computers and network devices from anywhere.
  • Wufoo - HTML Form Builder: "Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet. Our HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code."
  • RescueTime: Personal time management software: "RescueTime is a web-based time-management tool that allows you to easily understand how you spend your time. One of the coolest things about RescueTime is that there is NO DATA ENTRY. You install a doohicky on your computer and we magically track all of your time usage."
  • Wattzon: Personalizing Energy Consumption: "Climate change is a global problem. But it's individuals who will create the solution. WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others' and understand its consequences in order to discover how to reduce your role in climate change."
  • DonorsChoose.org: Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn.: "DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to addressing the scarcity and inequitable distribution of learning materials and experiences in our public schools."

Oct200831

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Bookmarks for October 29th through October 31st

A little link love for sites that are interesting, useful or simply top-of-mind for October 29th through October 31st:

  • Password Manager + Automatic Form Filler for Mac OS X: "...1Password keeps track of all your web passwords, automates sign-in, guards from identity theft, and allows you to stop worrying about your safety while online."
  • Meet Inbetween Us: "Use Meet Inbetween Us to plan anything with people who don't live near each other. Get started by entering addresses on the home page and then find a place to meet! From lunch with a friend to a scattered group of people, MeetInBetween.us will keep you from driving all the way out there!
  • MeetWays: "Meetways.com was created to allow users to find a point of interest between two addresses. Let's say you need to meet a friend or client for lunch on the other side of town? Meetways.com ways will allow you to enter both addresses and the type of restaurant you are looking for and give you the exact halfway point and a list of restaurants in that area. Save hours trying to figure out the halfway point on a map and instead find it in one simple click!"

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