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POPSSo, how evil is Facebook, really? I use Facebook every day now. I'm pretty well hooked. But this article, which talks about the intellectual pedigree (Girard), political sympathies ("Thatcherite") and financial connections (the CIA) of its board, gives me the creeps in a big way.
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POPSWeb-based travel organizer (anyone tried this yet?) When you book a trip online, email your itinerary to Tripit, and it will aggregate everything about your travel into a single page (plus it will pull in data from around the web that's relevant to your travel). Looks very handy.
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POPSZoho Wiki allows you to embed documents in pages This could be very handy, though I haven't yet tried it out. My overall impression of Zoho is that they have a great, feature-rich, well thought out system, but that there are an awful lot of annoying bugs lurking just out of sight that make me reluctant to depend on them. Like their plug-in for MS Office -- it seemed to work fine, but then I discovered that it would mess up the formatting on some of my documents, and then one day it just quit working, and that's apparently the end of the story.
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POPSOpen education recommendation service A Javascript tool that allows you to discover open-courseware recommendations related to pages you are browsing. I haven't really tested it yet but all the ed-tech geeks love it.
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POPSUsing the web in teaching: some resources This is a link list that's very much under construction, courtesy of Jetpak.com. Mostly these were recommended to me. Some are sites for specific courses, others are more general resources. For updates, grab the feed: http://snipr.com/1pk7a
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POPSFleck.com: easy web annotations With or without registration or a download, Fleck.com lets you post flexible sticky notes on any web page. What's missing: public member pages and RSS feeds.
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POPSVoiceThread: multimedia collaborative storytelling Apparently allows you to string together an album of photos and then collect audio comments about it from people connected with the pictures (like, your family members). Could be interesting. Via http://snipr.com/1nwi9 . Haven't yet investigated this enough to have an opinion about it.
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POPSThe tools our students use Alan November argues that educators should take advantage of students' high comfort level with networked tools. Via Laura Blankenship's tweets (that's GeekyMom to you): http://snipr.com/1ne3v.
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POPSOnline graphics generators for your site: roundup Pete Cashmore of Mashable posts a roundup of tools for automating the design of your site. Emphasis is on sleek CSS layouts, pale gradients, and faux-3D reflection effects, so you get a nice Web 2.0 look overall. Can't imagine I'd ever need to use this, but I think I will probably get stuck redesigning my department's website, so ... maybe I will after all.
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POPSI made a Meebo chatroom for Clipmarks.com Check it out. Needless to say, the interface is unclippable, so this clip above doesn't give you any sense of what it's like. Meebo also makes it look as though you have to register to use a Meebo room, but you actually don't -- just enter a nickname and start typing.
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POPSWriter: in-browser word processing, no distractions Didn't clip well -- you have to see the actual layout of the screen for the idea to make sense. It's a simple wordprocessor using light-colored text on a black background, with feature buttons that fade to near-invisibility when you're typing to minimize distractions. Could be useful.
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POPSGoogle Maps director on "the geoweb" Google's Maps and Earth teams have a blog. This first post is a kind of quick glimpse into their thinking on maps and location-based computing (call it "the geoweb" or "where 2.0" or "earth browsers" or whatever). Via http://301url.com/9w5
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