Kay Cunningham's List: Web Apps

'The more I look at Google's rich and deep Dashboard, the more I realize what a remarkable forensic device it could be. No, I don't expect anyone inside or outside of Google to view my private data. Still, I could envision a scenario in which a prosecutor subpoenas Google for this information. Anyone's search history could indicate certain predilections. But Google's vast store of people knowledge goes way beyond search. It has so many services and such a huge user base that it's safe to say that Google may know more about you than virtually any other online service provider (to be fair, if Microsoft or Yahoo had a similar service, we might see some of the same detail). Google knows what people searched for, their shopping habits, who they talked to (Google Voice), where they are (Latitude)—and the list goes on and on. Dashboard takes all this disparate information and weaves it into a sort of living diary. If you want to understand a person, this could be the ultimate autobiography.

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Google personalization privacy on 2009-11-07

"Last week we asked a simple question: How will you use Google Wave? Over 600 responses later, we're sending Wave nominations to the people who had the best use cases. Here are a few."

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Google_wave lists on 2009-10-18 and saved by 52 people

List of social networking apps.

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social_networking web_apps lists on 2009-10-06

'What stunted Wikipedia's growth? And what does the slump tell us about the long-term viability of such strange and invaluable online experiments? Perhaps that the Web has limits after all, particularly when it comes to the phenomenon known as crowdsourcing. Wikipedians - the volunteers who run the site, especially the approximately 1,000 editors who wield the most power over what you see - have been in a self-reflective mood. Not only is Wikipedia slowing, but also new stats suggest that hard-core participants are a pretty homogeneous set - the opposite of the ecumenical wiki ideal.'

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Wikipediaweb_2.0 reference articles encyclopedias social_media on 2009-10-06 and saved by 8 people

'Students are increasingly arriving at college already managing multiple e-mail addresses with “cloud”-based e-mail services -- such as Gmail and Hotmail -- which are hosted remotely by third-party companies. These students are often reluctant to use the e-mail client provided to them by their institution.'

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'For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place around a theme, an idea or just because. '

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Flickr web_apps photos on 2009-09-14 and saved by 5 people

'With Galleries, you essentially become a curator of all the creative work around Flickr. Each Gallery can contain up to 18 public images or videos from other Flickr members.'

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web_apps images image_galleries Flickr photographs on 2009-09-14 and saved by 2 people

"The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that any data that you create in (or import into) a product is your own. "

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Google Google_apps data portability on 2009-09-14 and saved by 71 people

'This sort of thing will still worry privacy advocates, but those concerned more with data portability should find a lot to like in Google's announcement today of its new Data Liberation Front. The Front is an in-house engineering team with a simple mission statement: "Users own the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to give users greater control by making it easier for them to move data in and out."'

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Google data portability on 2009-09-14 and saved by 5 people

'Real-time Twitter search with feelings using insanely complex sentiment analysis'

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Twitter emotions search searching sentiment_analysis web_apps on 2009-09-06 and saved by 26 people

Slideshare "just rolled out the ability to import and share documents from Google Docs on SlideShare. For now [they] support importing presentations, documents and pdf files.'

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web_apps social_media SlideShare Googledocs on 2009-09-06 and saved by 4 people

The A to Z glossary of common social media terms.

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social_media glossaries web_2.0 on 2009-09-06 and saved by 8 people

'Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.'

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Facebook social_networking web_2.0 on 2009-09-05

"The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact."

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information web_apps evaluation information_overload social_media RSS on 2009-09-02

'Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your media. Free, fast and shockingly easy.'

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"165 learning professionals have now shared their Top 10 Tools and here is a snapshot of the current Top 10 as at 8 August 2009. "

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'Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.'

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web_apps confereing on 2009-08-29 and saved by 1074 people

'I’ve alluded to this many times; AR would allow for more information to be “connected” to an object, and I left it at that. You could take a painting or an archaeological treasure and surround it with extra bits of media, floating text boxes, video or maybe a ghostly hyperlink to a collection database entry (if you’re unimaginative).
Stuff that you could do on paper and screens, ultimately. Oh, you could design a better UI to hold the information. Historically, museums aren’t interested in that. Something like AR that smells a bit like an “optical Internet” (a phrase Bruce Sterling rightfully sneers at), it’s most likely going to be a bought product or outsourced to a freelancer. Few museums will want to get involved with designing that architecture. They’ll want to buy something they can fill. So what can AR do for collections management?'

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Layar art web_apps links images museums curation on 2009-08-29

Blog on trendspotting

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'This ECAR research bulletin reviews some of the basic tenets of copyright in the digital millennium. Specifically, it discusses the ways in which copyright law, fair use provisions, and the TEACH Act interact with today’s teaching and learning, especially the use of Web 2.0 tools by both faculty members and students.'

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