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WebTech Link Fodder
 I like the integrated web community aspects of the new browser Flock. Sure everything can be done with plugins and what you have but I like the integrated nature. I especially like the web-clipboard. Maybe this could be come the official browser of The Flock? What say you my Count?

 I joined Multiply ?? I have friends there??

 Giz wush zwah?!? So, email is represented by bikini clad Sims rejects and spam by fat guys in speedos? So who the fuck sits there and just watches their email come in?!?! ( from tech crunch)

 Hadn't come across this before. It's TagBrowsr, an alternate way to browse Flickr photos by tag.

Photosynth is just a WOW product and that has nothing to do with Orcs and Dragons. Imagine mapping dozens (or thousands) of photos onto a three dimensional space and being able to fly through it.

 This PictoBrowser Preview is just too kewl. It makes me like my photos again and the sizing is decent. time to resurrect?

 Oooooo, sweet bottom frame (not frames frame but framing the bottom of the page) over at fortuitous. I particularly like the fade.

 If the messages you send in Twitter are called tweets, can I call the people who would send them via command line, twits? calm down, i keed i keed, i loves the comand line nerds as much as the next guy.

 Holey moley, it's two years old and it's still an incredible example of the wonders you can do on the web. Dunstan's blog has a weather based panoramic header. The images are displayed depending on the XML data gleaned from weather.com. The image accurately depicts a photo of his parents' place as a live info graphic. Astounding.

if:book is a weblog or site about a think tank that is thinking (in a tank of course) about the furture of books and written word and technology. I think.

 Ok, it made me snicker which made other co-workers look at me strangely. But they do that anyway so nuttin new.

 So I was popping by Uninstalled and I saw this neat CSS popup attached to the link. At first I thought this was a clever guy (he may still be) but then I noticed the logo to Snap. Neat! I am amazed at how much I like the concept but I am sure someone will not like it on my site, so I am enabling it only for the links where i think it might assist people, which may be most.

5. These sites are so easy, my mother could use them. And they're so geeky, she has no interest in even trying.
You know, I used to think it was just because being out of the loop I didn't get things as much anymore. I still don't have a good need for most social apps and find that they are just based on self grandeuring... but that is probably the point. Yes they are The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0. ( via ed)

meebo.com, a tool that let's you chat with people via your website? As in live? Sounds like something I had in the beginning of this blogging schtick.

 Ahhh, so that is where that link on my newly created Flickr Set came from. I almost built a minibook immediately and then I noticed I was immediately usng my credit card far too much this month.

 The 30-Day free trial at Expressions Photoblogging Service, makes me wonder what it would be like to do a temporary photoblog, one that would run for 30 days and then go away.

 Is it just me or does Google Video fail for other people? No matter what I place in the search box, including the links from their own blog, I get zero results. Is it the zip code assigned automatically in the prefs?

"It's currently 12:38am on Wednesday in Toronto. There are 0 places you can get booze right now."
The Beer Hunter is a website that uses GoogleMaps API and some clever knowledge to tell you where to buy beer. ( via joey)

 Make note of this Email to Blog post so I can start using my Blackberry for something again.

 Organizing my links could be something worth actually exercising my brain for. Remembering useful, memorable stuff by giving weight to links such as Boxes and Arrows might come in handy in picking up my feet.

 I have been looking for ways to inspire me to get back into web design / site building. Maybe I should take a stab at Greg Costikyan's site?

 Tags with weight is a concept that has some meaning these days. It's a quick interface way to tell what means more than another thing, whatever that means. For example, looking for work is weighed this way in the web tech world.

 I posted about this semantic web article back when i just arrived in Toronto three years ago and it was from the previous year's spring. It's four years later and I still cannot really define it. Maybe I should read the article again.

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