Circulation » tools http://lindybrown.com/blog Mixing Student Affairs & Information Sciences Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:52:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Quick and Easy Co-Browsing: Channel.me http://lindybrown.com/blog/2011/07/quick-and-easy-co-browsing-channel-me/ http://lindybrown.com/blog/2011/07/quick-and-easy-co-browsing-channel-me/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:57:15 +0000 lindybr1 http://lindybrown.com/blog/?p=1722 channel.meWant to co-browse a website with another person at the same time? Check out channel.me. Share the link via Facebook or through email, and your friend can open the website and view with you in real time. Chat together, add notes, switch to other pages – this is pretty neat.

One (big) issue is channel.me doesn’t provide much information about their product, so I wonder what they do with information shared during browsing sessions. Despite this possibly major privacy issue, it is so easy to use and the applications are endless.

Thanks @webmaster_ref for sharing this resource!

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Update 8/2/09: R.I.P. Favthumbs. Looks like favthumbs is no more! Clicking on the favthumbs link will kick you to “PicClick, the visual Ebay Shopping Experience.”

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]]> http://lindybrown.com/blog/2009/02/favethumbs-visual-delicious-bookmarks/feed/ 0 Trying out Sprout http://lindybrown.com/blog/2009/02/twitter-about-libraries/ http://lindybrown.com/blog/2009/02/twitter-about-libraries/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:38:10 +0000 lindybr1 http://lindyjb.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/twitter-about-libraries/ I was trying out Sprout today. Now this is way, way, way cool! Sprout “is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more… Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.” After about 15 minutes of playing around, I created a little twitter widget, added a lil’ music and embedded it to my blog here. It’s nothing fancy at the moment, but what’s especially cool about Sprout is I can log back in, make changes, save the update and it will automatically update the widget below with the changes. I did read on their website that starting sometime soon – in fact, they said mid-February – they will start requiring paid subscriptions for use.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.783675&w=425&h=350&fv=] <–No longer working, boo hoo!

Music Credits: August (Reggae Rework) ft. Calendargirl from CCmixter user el-B

Picture 21update 12/16/09: as you can see, sprout is no longer working…my stuff has vanished. I tried logging into my old account and I was redirected to a site requiring me to resubscribe—for a price ($19.99/month was the cheapest option).

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I wanted to comment on tiltshiftmaker – a nifty lil‘ site that allows you to tilt-shift your images. I tried it out with one of my funny-retro motel pictures. (I like to take pictures of old-school colorful vintage signs. When I lived in Florida, there were lots around the central-Florida area. I have a very small collection of them on my flickrstream). I tried out tiltshiftmaker and it was super easy and kinda fun. I recommend taking a try at it!

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]]> http://lindybrown.com/blog/2008/12/twitter-updated-search-function-search-for-people/feed/ 0 LIS 5313: Twitter Tools http://lindybrown.com/blog/2008/12/lis-5313-twitter-tools/ http://lindybrown.com/blog/2008/12/lis-5313-twitter-tools/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:16:00 +0000 lindybr1 http://lindyjb.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/lis-5313-twitter-tools/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1624455&dest=-1]

I created a video as part of my LIS 5313 web 2.0 article. (We had to incorporate media into our posting). I decided to focus on the third-party applications and tools that make Twitter so easy to use and so accessible. I based it on the top 10 applications/tools that libraries/librarians in my survey research mentioned they used to enhance their experience with Twitter.

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