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Quick and Easy Co-Browsing: Channel.me

lindybr1 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:57:15 +0000

Want 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!

25 Tools: a Toolbox for Learning Professionals (slideshare presentation)

lindybr1 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:41:59 +0000

Joyce Valencia’s most recent post on retooling oneself got a lot of link love on twitter today. She provided many wonderful resources for educators and information professionals, but one particular resource I enjoyed was a presentation by Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies:

25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009

View more presentations from Jane Hart.

Twitoria: find out who hasn't tweeted in awhile

lindybr1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:25:48 +0000

If you’re looking for a quick way to find out which of your friends hasn’t tweeted in awhile, give Twitoria a try.

In my exuberance to learn as much as possible (as a rookie info professional would do), I have been following a lot of folks, especially libraries. I have been wanting to cut my twitter follower numbers down, so I gave Twitoria a try. I found over 35 folks that haven’t tweeted in over a month. I think I’ll be giving a few of those folks the boot…

Favethumbs – Visual Del.icio.us bookmarks

lindybr1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:25:53 +0000

Have a delicious account, and can’t remember the website you want or the tag? Do you need to see a picture of it to jog your memory? Or, do you just like to see things rather than read plain-ole text? For you visual folks out there who also happen to have a delicious account – try out Favthumbs! I am really diggin’ the layout – I can see my bookmarks in grid format or I can choose a “carousel” version (which reminds me of my iTunes album layout). One minor problem is that there isn’t a search function like the delicous site has. One must click on the zillion tags you have and look at what come up. However, overall — it sure makes my bookmarks look so pretty!

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.”

Trying out Sprout

lindybr1 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:38:10 +0000

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

update 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).