Dailymashup. Reading magazines as Google maps - data visualization & visual design. 6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. It allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. But the problem many people face is that there are so many sources of information that we’re trying to keep track of, we’ve become buried.
Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Reader’s shared items. Feed Rinse is a best of class RSS filtering application.
FilterMyRSS is a no-nonsense keyword filter that filters posts out by keyword. When we first reviewed 2or3things’ Blastfeed in late 2006 it appeared to be shaping up as a good consumer filtering alternative to Feed Rinse. For do-it-yourselfers, Yahoo! Gmapsmania - 100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups. Sites linking to this page: Digg, C|Net News.com, StumbleUpon, MentalFloss, Corriere (Italy), Del.icio.us/Popular, Korben, SiliconValley.com, Geek News Central, LifeHacker, Bildirgec, NRK (Norway) [ Back to Google Maps Mania.. ] 1.
Find a world brewery2. Track world terrorism3. Find a WiFi Hotspot in the US4. Align your satellite dish properly5. Catch live music in your area6. Lifestreams - your life live. Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Summary: AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable. ... dangerous for your profits, that is. If you focus on over-hyped technology developments, you risk diverting resources from the high-ROI design issues that really matter to your users — and to your profits. Unlike some older technologies (notably, Flash and PDF ), Web 2.0 ideas are not inherently bad for users.
They can be highly effective; we sometimes see examples of usability-enhancing Web 2.0 designs in our studies. But it's more common to find Web 2.0 ideas that either hurt users or simply don't matter to users' core needs. While the latter case might seem innocent, irrelevant website "enhancements" diminish profits because they indicate a failure to focus on those simpler design issues that actually increase sales and leads. API - ProgrammableWeb Profile. The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information. If you walk into any suburban Starbucks these days, you won't see people's faces, instead you'll see laptops. Moms and dads increasingly work from home; broadband took over the US and wireless is about to do the same. Digital cameras and cell phones have become the eye witnesses of local events. More and more people are connected to the grid from places previously untouched by technology. And as they plug into the Internet, they bring with them something that did not exist before - hyperlocal digital information.
Information processing and information creation are what defines us as a species. When sitting in a local Starbucks, a blogger might write about what it feels like to be in Opelika, Alabama today, for example. On the way to work in Lewistown, Montana an amateur photographer might take a picture of the local grocery store. The net effect of all of this is the increasing availability of fine-grained information about locales. User Generated Hyperlocal Content Conclusion. Ning Rolls Out Facebook App Builder: Embed Your Social Network In a Social Network. Ning, the build-your-own social network startup, will be rolling out a new feature that allows users to create their own Facebook applications around their Ning networks later this evening.
This won’t be a Ning app – rather, they are giving network operators (users who’ve created Ning social networks and other applications) the ability to easily create a branded Facebook application. The example screen shot (click for larger view) shows integration of Pumkins Central (a Ning social network) videos. The screen shot also shows a separate Ning application showing the user’s Ning friends. Ning says that no programming knowledge is required to build the applications, and that they will be giving easy step by step instructions to users.
Users will be able to add videos, music, podcasts, and photo slideshows to the application. Lyrics Muse. Yahoo! Gallery. Flickr API. Google OpenSocial Now Live! We've been waiting all day for Google's OpenSocial site to start working, and it has finally happened. The site contains the official OpenSocial API documents, developers blog, featured community gadgets, and featured videos. Unless you're a developer dying to see the inner workings of the APIs, there isn't really much new information up there; everything's been extensively covered here at Mashable. The list of partners mentioned seemed to have grown a bit: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. Yes, that's MySpace there in the list; Facebook is, unsurprisingly, nowhere to be seen.
Google has also included a couple of tutorial-style articles to get developers started. These include: "How To Build Your First Social Gadget", "Gadget Tutorial", "Social Design Best Pratices" and "How To Read and Write Shared Social Data". 28 European APIs, Mashup the Continent.