links for 2006-11-29

• Outreach Inc. > Home ( DNN 3.0.13 )
  Outreach, Inc. is a Christian ministry in Indianapolis reaching out to homeless and at-risk young adults with the compassion of Jesus Christ. Outreach accomplishes this by providing street outreach, a youth drop-in center, holistic social services, emerge
  (tags: christianity missions)

links for 2006-11-28

• Wishlistr: Create a wishlist and share it with the world
  (tags: web2.0 ajax shopping)
• Quick Thumbnail: The fastest and most powerful way to resize images online
  Online photo resizer
  (tags: resize images)
• Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips
  Email etiquette and hacks
  (tags: Productivity email lifehacks)
• Remember The Milk – Blog
  (tags: Google, Calendar gtd)
• Pile of Indexcards – Selection
  (tags: GTD productivity lifehacks indexcards)
• simple index cards
  (tags: GTD organization)
• More than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older, as the Site’s Demographic Composition Continues to Shift
  Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively. Meanwhile, Xanga.com has a younger user profile, with 20 percent of its users in the 12-17 age ra
  (tags: myspace web2.0 statistics Research)

links for 2006-11-21

• Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Drop-in content box
  Ensure that particular content on your page gets the attention it deserves, by dropping it into view, using this script. Whether it is an important announcement, an advertisement, or an ode to your pet you feel everyone should read, the choice is yours!
  (tags: HTML javascript)
• 176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo – New York Times
  A consortium of seven newspaper chains representing 176 daily papers across the country is announcing a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that the wary newspaper business is increasingly willing to sha
  (tags: tagging yahoo media)
• webdesignerstoolkit.de – browser, formulare, buttons, blindtext
  (tags: webdesign design templates)

links for 2006-11-18

• Resizr
  Need to resize images, but don’t have an image editor handy? You might want to try Resizr, an online image resizing service:

  Often you do not need more than just resizing an image on the fly. Before ResizR you required a desktop software to do this

  (tags: tools images)
• O’Reilly Radar: Web 2.0 Report
  O’Reilly Radar’s Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices lays out the answers—the why, what, who, and how of Web 2.0. It’s an indispensable guide for technology decision-makers—executives, product strategists, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders—who ar
  (tags: web2.0 research)
• Tipsheet: CEO Guide to Mashups
  Think you’re ready to experiment with mashups? Before you start, consider these tips for a successful rollout
  (tags: mashup)
• MapLib.net – Hosting your maps Powered by Google Maps
  MapLib.net turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map in a really simple way. You can maintain markers for it, as well as embed it in your own web pages or blog.
  (tags: maps Google)

links for 2006-11-17

• SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money
  Our estimate, as you can see in BusinessWeek’s cover story, is that we’re saving $500K per year. We’ve been using S3 for almost 7 months so far (we launched it on or around April 14th), so for my $500K estimate to be in the right ballpark, we should
  (tags: s3)
• Zoo.com
  Parents have a new tool in the fight to protect kids from inappropriate web content: Zoo.com, a child-friendly search engine that filters out sexually explicit material.
  (tags: search)
• style.org
  Mapping election results

  Just wanted to mention a set of redrawn maps of the county-by-county Iowa caucus results, from a former student of E.T.: http://www.style.org/ iowacaucus/. Iowa was interesting to work on because the state is divided into an a

  (tags: design tufte)

links for 2006-11-16

• HitTail – Revolutionizing PR Through Search
  (tags: search)
• Mr. Picassohead
  Mr. Picassohead is an online Flash tool to create user-generated art in the Picasso style.
  (tags: flash)
• BOOK
  Sketchbook project turned into online gallery of designers/artists creating in a social perspective.
  (tags: design)
• TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts
  (tags: fonts)
• Modern Living / Neurotica series
  Flash experimentation and art
  (tags: Flash)

links for 2006-11-15

• GTD: Project Verbs vs. Next-Action Verbs | 43 Folders
  In implementing Getting Things Done, you’re wise to understand that words are powerful things. And the king of words in GTD, as in life, is the verb.
  (tags: gtd)
• What’s Your Google Identity? | MarketingProfs.com
  Good article on how to build an online, searchable brand. Personal and corporate.
  (tags: brand)

Who Inspires You?

I was asked today “who is it that inspires you?” It didn’t take me long to come up with a pretty lengthy list:

Steve Jobs
Guy Kawasaki
Hillman Curits
Seth Godin
Steve Rubel
Clement Mok
Edward Tufte
My wife
Steven Berlin Johnson
David Allen
Donald Miller
Rob Bell
Teddy Roosevelt
Cory and Todd Edwards

Maybe I’ll take sometime on future posts to go into the who and why of each.

links for 2006-11-13

• Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense – New York Times
  But in the future, more powerful systems could act as personal advisers in areas as diverse as financial planning, with an intelligent system mapping out a retirement plan for a couple, for instance, or educational consulting, with the Web helping a high
  (tags: web3.0)

links for 2006-11-11

• List of faux pas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: etiquette)
• Blick Van Glory
  (tags: buzzmarketing)