6 posts tagged “tools”
This is awes*me! Cut the bullshit and spell cussw**ds as they were intend*d! Thanks, David.
[via Daring Fireball]
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere -- when reading articles at the New York Times site, if you double-click a word in the article text, a window pops up with a definition and background information from Answers.com. It even appears to grab phrases on occasion -- when I clicked twice on "economy", it pulled in the preceding word and defined "global economy".
I'll admit that it hasn't been useful to me yet, but it's pretty interesting. The system is mostly unobtrusive application of non-explicit, dynamic hyperlinking. Check it out.
When I dig into my folder of sent mail in Outlook and reply to a message, it addresses it back to me. Of course, that's not what I want to do.
When I dig into my sent mail in Gmail and reply to a message, it addresses it to the person I originally e-mailed. Smart!
In both scenarios, I'm digging around to follow-up on a message for which I have not yet received a response. It is fairly rare that I want to e-mail myself a message I sent earlier. Gmail understood this from the beginning, and Microsoft has been handling this awkwardly since forever.
Microsoft hired all the smartest people in the 1990s. Gmail is hiring all the smartest people today. Shouldn't the smartest people from the 1990s still be able to figure this out?
Farecast is super cool.
Know When to Buy – Airfare Predictions
We help you decide if you should buy now or wait.
I can't wait to see how the airlines will adjust their pricing models if Farecast takes off. They must have swallowed hard when this dropped.
I realize most of my friends have invite fatigue, and it sucks. I keep finding cool stuff. Dodgeball is super cool, but I've only been able to twist 10 arms hard enough to get sign ups. Vox is also very cool -- cool enough that it really could improve my ability to communicate with a lot of people. Again, people are reluctant to sign up. And the latest, Twttr, is pretty cool too.
I know I've been dishing too many invites when my very own special lady friend doesn't bother to respond. Shit!
My threshold for the "I'll check it out" stage is very, very low. Everyone else's seems to be very, very high. This is problematic, particularly in the age of the social network. All this stuff is cool, but it would be so much cooler if it would just tip with my posse (you know, network effects and all that).
Perhaps with time. Perhaps MySpace will melt down without a recoverable backup. ;-)
