Archive for February, 2011
The trouble with alts
Image by luc legay via Flickr
I saw a post on Mashable about Everloop and decided to check it out. The site is intended for students ages 8-13 but your 14-15 year olds and children under 8 can use the site as well, provided they comply to the terms of service. I decided to register as a student to see what the process looks like. And that’s where things started to get weird. More…
Sometimes it’s the simple things…
Image by Bright Meadow via Flickr
Saw a new site recommended on Twitter today called Pen.io. The description? “Create beautiful text based pages in seconds and share them with the world.”
That’s it. And that’s really all it does. No registration, no email required. Just put in what you want the link to be and a password of your choice. It takes you over to a page where you can enter in a title and your text. Click save. More…
Tripline: The interface we always wanted for Google Lit Trips… and more!
Image via CrunchBase
Mike Bryant dropped me an email last night recommending that I check out Tripline, and boy am I glad he did! It’s another one of those sites that allows you to create custom Google Maps, but the interface and features make it stand head and shoulders above many others. It has the social features that I always look for, allowing you to connect directly to Facebook, Twitter, Tripit, FourSquare, Gowalla and others. And with just a few clicks, you can create ‘trips’ based on them. So for example, if you use Tripit to organize your trips, you can import in all the locations from a single trip and lay it out on a map. Or if you use the locations feature in Twitter, you can lay out your tweets based on where you tweeted them from. More…