Craig Nansen has developed a nice little Google Maps mashup called Tweet Map. Kind of like Twittermap, except it only notes those that you follow. I tried it yesterday at work and ended up keeping the window open on my second monitor. Kind of a nice way to keep up with folks throughout the day.
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I spent some time this weekend learning how to use ScreenFlow, screencast creation software for Mac OS X. I have been using Jing to make short tutorials for my staff. These tutorials are short introductions that highlight features of our web site, or demonstrate how to do common computer tasks. While Jing is free, and has worked very well. I was impressed with the feature set of ScreenFlow and decided to purchase it.
I created two screencasts for my staff that are posted on our Staff Bulletin page. Since our staff page is behind a login, I have posted the videos here so you can see some of the features built into ScreenFlow. The callout feature is one that is very impressive. It allows you to highlight specific windows and darken surrounding objects. The mouse call out is similar in that it calls out a specific radius around the mouse cursor. In addition you can magnify the area within the callout circle. The ScreenFlow web site has several video tutorials that highlight the feature set built into ScreenFlow. A demo copy can be downloaded from their web site.
Google Maps Screencast for Lewis Staff
Staff Bulletin Screencast for Lewis Staff
iRadioapp.com is a web based application designed for use on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, but available through any web browser. It uses radio station listings from Yes.com and returns live information about currently playing and recently played songs for the top 30 US radio markets. Once you have found your station you can drill down to a specific song, you have the option of emailing the song information, looking up the song in the iTunes Music Store, reading the lyrics, or playing the song (this feature is only available over WiFi.) Clicking the play song link will stream a copy of the song. This feature is dependent on if the song is available or not. Clicking the play song link initiates a web search using seeqpod.com and if found, the song is streamed and played.
Seeqpod.com is worth a closer look. It is basically a playable media search tool. It allows you to create an account and you can create playlists from your searches. An interesting way to find audio and video media...
From their web site:
We are passionate about search and discovery algorithms and believe that one day, everything on the Web will need to be 'playable'. So, we decided to apply some very sophisticated technology to 'Playable Search' so that anyone, anywhere can mine the deepest crevices and corners of the Web for media that is publicly available, yet it is not always so easy to find...
By way of Fabric of Folly...
Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information:
The Google Docs Blog posts today about a new feature in Google Docs Spreadsheets called forms. It basically allows you to share a Google Docs Spreadsheet as a form with others and the data they enter in that form is automatically added to a Google Docs Spreadsheet. So rather than sharing a spreadsheet with others, you can send them a form to fill out and the data they enter is automatically entered into a Google Docs Spreadsheet. Lots of possibilities here... I tested it on my iPhone and the form works nicely. Think I'm going to redo my Learning Walk form tomorrow...
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CoveritLive is web based software for live blogging of events such as conference sessions or lectures. Through an iframe, your commentary is published on your web site in real time like an instant message dialog complete with time stamp. You can easily add polls, videos, pictures, and audio clips to our live session. Viewers of your live session can add comments and questions with you controlling what gets published. This looks like an interesting tool for folks who like to blog live events. It might be useful for participants at FETC and Educon to take a look at.
Update: The content through the iframe displays nicely on the iPhone too...
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