Lots of Web 2.0 bits
Since I started using Facebook regularly, the most interesting things I’ve found are:
- blog posts written by others, that lead me to find out more about what’s happening in the internet area (OK, I’m failing to avoid saying Web 2.0)
- bits in people status feeds that make me think “I wonder what that is?”
Some of the things I’ve found recently (yes, I know they’re all probably old hat)
Twitter - letting folk know your presence/activity
Jaiku - another presence/group/blogging monitoring thing, with the ability to add “channels”
Spinvox - does voice to text stuff, but lets you update Facebook/twitter/Jaiku by phone, which is fun
Tumblr - which allows you to rapidly add links, quotes, text, photos to a stream - and you can add channels, too. I use it for grabbing links, which I RSS to my blog
Tabblo - a photo/text/story/printing site - lets you *easily* bring photos in from Flickr and fairly easily from Picasa; let’s you produce interesting photo displays that you can print as PDF; locally; for free …
Picknik - which lets you edit *online* phots on your PC, Picasa, Facebook, Flickr. Very nice.
Pandora - recommends - and plays - music for you based on characteristics of music that you’ve indicated you like. Lots of fun, and works differently to last.fm which I also use
I think I’ll probably edit this as I recall/use more bits ‘n bobs.
Steve, thanks for your kind mention of the Los Angeles Fire Department via Twitter. We’ve got a lot of great things planned for our Twitter feed and other web2.0 offerings in the coming year.
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes in 2008!
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department
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