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collection of javascripts based on mootools

very nice fish eye image gallery system based on mootools

Here are the points I consider important when we're talking about Ajax APIs in JavaScript (Ajax implies that but you'd be surprised how often a REST API is advertised as Ajax): Good documentation / Usage examples to copy + paste / Modularity / Link results to entries / Offer flexible input / Allow for custom object transportation / Cover usability basics

Social software brings groups together to discover and create value. The problem is, users only have so much time for social software. The vast majority of users with not have a high level of engagement with a given group, and most tend to be free riders upon community value. But patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence. To illustrate this, Ross Mayfield drafted the Power Law of Participation. Interesting. Onion model? Lurkers vs Posters?

Spun off from http://groups.diigo.com/web2tools/bookmark/tag/Evernote and from http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/export-cache-1981#9

Some brief notes from a Mac OS X perspective: http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2009/04/11/evernote-fsc-001.png for an fseventer view of file system changes when Evernote Web Clipper in Safari produces a PDF, launches the main and helper applications, and syncs. No evidence there of Sync Services, which may be surprising given the otherwise fine use of available technologies.

(Unlike Diigo) Evernote does not highlight web content, and is not oriented to group work or sharing.

Referred from http://www.twine.com/item/12w3w9jg5-1nm/new-twine-interface-lets-users-visualize-shared-bookmarks-venturebeat

Jeremiah Owyang presents an overview of a report by Forrester on the next five years of the social web.

ليوم نكمل الجزء الثالث من دليل تويت دك.

This is a video of a talk that Lawrence Lessig (Professor, Stanford Law School) gave for an unnamed organization. In his talk, Lessig provides a powerful and piercing analysis on the impact that legal restrictions on the re/use of media resources has on creativity and cultural production. During his talk, Lessig shows some remarkably creative mash-up videos on YouTube to exemplify the kind of creativity/cultural production that is possible through ubiquitous digital media, yet is considered copyright violation, for example, in the eyes of Warner Brothers Music Group. Ironically, the organization that hosted the talk received a notice from Warner Bros Music after posting a video of the Lessig's talk on YouTube, which, according to Lessig's blog, "objected to its being posted on copyright grounds." Warner Brother Music Group has implemented content-id algorithms (i.e., technology that detects the digital "fingerprint" of corporate-"owned" copyrighted works) through media hosting services, including YouTube, FaceBook, and others. When the video of Lessig's talk was posted, it was 'dusted' for fingerprints of WBMG copyrighted works. The detection system identified the soundtracks in the YouTube videos Lessig showed, as materials to which they held copyright. Both the video of Lessig's talk and the blog conversation regarding WBMG's objection are must-see resources.

Some of us may have experienced times where we have wanted to find out the identity of someone spamming our blog site. Here's a fantastic tutorial on how to do just that...

But as with Web 2.0, the real secret of success in Government 2.0 is thinking about government as a platform. If there's one thing we learn from the technology industry, it's that every big winner has been a platform company: someone whose success has enabled others, who've built on their work and multiplied its impact. Microsoft put "a PC on every desk and in every home," the internet connected those PCs, Google enabled a generation of ad-supported startups, Apple turned the phone market upside down by letting developers loose to invent applications no phone company would ever have thought of. In each case, the platform provider raised the bar, and created opportunities for others to exploit.

I've put together a nice list of websites offering free color resources for the internet masses. Most of these sites offer some sort of online web application for you to use in your creating process, but they all offer something of value for the graphic designer, web designer, photographer, etc.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook growth is still increasing, particularly 35+ age group (watch out kids your parents are coming!).

Being a webmaster, you've got your hands full, and I should know; I'm obviously one myself. So, anytime I come across applications to make the job easier, especially web applications, I'm quick to try them out and promote their greatness. In this article we have a social network popularity scanner, a 'people' scanner with real-time statistics (somewhat different than an analytical scan), a community based web application set for your business or website and more.