badge: squirl- September 28, 2006 Non-interactive badge. Widgets coming soonAlso, oh, man, I find myself not especially motivated to accept the data-entry position Squirl offers me to catalog my stuff.x-posted on web2.0depot.nethttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115947127165459054 web tool: GroupLoop- September 23, 2006 With its page title, "GroupLoop - Centralize, organize. Keep your group in the loop!" you can see GroupLoop is an online collaborative manager. It seems to me it falls somewhere between 37signals' Backpack (more of a personal organizer) and Basecamp (project manager). I may give GroupLoop at try to see what it's like, though I've been planning on using Backpack for my next small group project. I'm already invested in Backpack and it will keep my group stuff right next to my personal...http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115898546105288259 badge: Twitter- September 22, 2006 flash version:follow Erik at http:twitter.comJavaScript version: xposted at web2.0depot.nethttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115894176505827670 thoughts on the convenience of the new iPod shuffle- September 22, 2006 The super-small footprint, integrated clip, and anodized aluminum casing make the new iPod shuffle hott (that's with two 't's). However, the new suffle dock leaves something to be desired.It's included, which is nice, but it's required, which is not. I'd like to get a MacBook in the near future, so my computing will become mobile. That means if I want to sync a new shuffle, I'll have to connect the USB dock before dropping the shuffle in the dock--with the older shuffle, you could just slap...http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115893831600674573 mashup: Flickr + business cards = MOO- September 21, 2006 MOO has launched to great fanfare, and without actually having used it yet, it's probably deserved. Glossy, half-business-card-sized cards with your flickr photos on one side and some contact info on the back--pretty neat! For a design professional, these should make for some distinctive business cards, and they'll be appealing in lots of other cases, too: bands, events, real estate.Once I get my hands on some, I'll update with a review of the quality and the experience.xposted on...http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115887111533967473 web tool: Weebly- September 21, 2006 You'll need an invitation to join the beta of Weebly - Website Creation Made Easy, but that shouldn't be too hard--drop your email in the form on the front page, and the creator of Weebly will probably get back to you right away.Weebly is a very slick AJAX WYSIWYG editor. It's incredibly stylish and easy to use.I've just started playing with it, and it's admittedly a beta; so, then, my hiccups: the text fields (really the main thing you will be adding to a site) won't render JavaScript, so you..http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115885437467363125 mashup: BookMooch meets LibraryThing- September 20, 2006 So, I've been reading a lot lately (and I should be talking about that more here), all thanks to BookMooch, a very cool book swapping website. More on that later.It's still hand-driven at this point, but I like the idea of using LibraryThing's bookshelf and tags to display my BookMooch inventory.LibraryThing has an awesome Universal Import function that can grab all the ISBNs off my BookMooch inventory and add them to my bookshelf. Then, it's a simple matter of using their widget to output the..http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115878691480418268 shiny new toy: web2.0depot.net- September 20, 2006 Lots of activity over at web2.0depot.net, a new blog where I'm testing out all the nifty badges and live content you can get nowadays.xposted to ErikSwedlund.comhttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115877745606939438 badge overload- September 12, 2006 If I ever get around to putting all these web 2.0 badges in my sidebar, it's gonna get busy (okay, busier) around here. See more of esswedl's picks at ThisNext. Shopcast powered byhttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115807854196684010 fit news- September 12, 2006 More web 2.0 fun at traineo.http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_09_01_old.php#115802474197704550 |