There are social networking sites out there for every interest. Well, at least there are for most of my interests. 
Even though I’m not much of a knitter, I enjoy lurking at ravelry.com. And now there’s myfolia.com. I didn’t go looking for this site, it found me through flickr. Social networking connecting me with more social networking! myfolia connects you with gardeners in your growing zone and around the world. Share photos of your garden from flickr. Share your gardening notes and more. I’m really looking forward to exploring this one some more.
Archive for February, 2008While looking at some travel sites earlier today, I ran across an interesting airport chatter service at flightstats.com
It’s a great idea, though it doesn’t seem to have enough people chattering at any one time for it to be tremendously useful. Perhaps it will improve over time. I hope so. This got me thinking about how twitter might be used to accomplish something like this. Still haven’t found if there is a mashup of twitter and aiport chatter, but I did find this very nifty new service call CommuterFeed. It’s a feed of twitter posts about traffic and transit delays throughout the world. You contribute to it by sending a twitter tweet to the user @commuter, followed by your airport code. So a delay on a Los Angeles highway would be go something like this “@commuter LAX delay on the 405 at the 105″. To receive updates on your location, you can pick up an RSS feed for your region. Pretty nifty. I’m sorry I had to cancel my T-mobile hotspot account today (and no it had nothing to do with Starbucks canceling their contract with tmobile!). I’ve used T-mobile for nearly 4 years now. Never had any reason to call customer service or support. The service always worked as promised and billing was never a problem. In an attempt to consolidate some of my communications services, I’ve opted for a Verizon broadband card for my laptop, simply because that’s who I have for my cell phone service. Though I did reconsider during the multi week hassle of activating the Verizon card. Back to T-mobile. When I called them today, I really expected to spend ages canceling the service and to get a barrage of questions and pressure to stay with them. Though they did suggest that I could have used their broadband card for my laptop, the service agent was most pleasant and did not pressure me. The whole process was, in fact, painless! No long phone tree menu of choice after confusing choice to get to the right person. The first person I spoke to was able to help, was friendly and efficient. If ever I need to change services again, T-mobile will be top of the list. Thank you! I’ve been playing with new themes and stuff for my blog. I like this layout and theme. Just need to find some of my own photos for the headers. And work on the content for the sidebars. This is how I’m avoiding getting some other projects done! Need help explaining Creative Commons licensing to kids (or adults!)? Take a look at this terrific screencast from Beth Kanter. What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons Licensing … Nice example of Jing as a screencasting tool too. P.S. Here’s the link to the School Library Journal article Beth mentions in the comments. Well done Harry! And mom. Impressive marketing going on here. Larger version at: http://www.dipdive.com/ |
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