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POPSGeek vs. Nerd vs. Dork I don't know if I agree with everything in here, but the list is pretty spot on for the most part... I definitely define myself as a geek, and match up pretty well with that here :)
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POPSCompare your blog/site with the top 10 sites for a given keyword You've been working real hard, on your blog/site, for the past few months. You have been optimizing your blog for a particular keyword. Now you want to see some results. You want to know where you stand with respect to the competing sites. Well you are in luck because such a tool is available. Its free and its online (nothing to download and install).
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POPSCelebrity Meter Although there are a few different standards for highlighting links like these, most social networking sites, blog software and hosting services support one or more. They're relying on site builders to highlight such links by using special markup. Google uses this information to build a graph of all sites and their links to one another. Rather than request the API from each site individually (Twitter followers, MySpace friends, etc.), Google provides a single RESTful API to send a simple query in one shot. While there are limits to this data (Facebook info is currently not available in this widget), the information we're getting is real and the friend information we're getting isn't a simple number but a list of live URLs that Google has vetted for us.
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POPSFreebase - a database about everything Part of what makes this open database unique is that it spans domains, but requires that a particular topic exist only once in Freebase -- even if it might normally be found in multiple databases. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger would appear in a movie database as an actor, a political database as a governor, and in a bodybuilder database as a Mr. Universe. In Freebase, however, there is only one topic for Arnold Schwarzenegger that brings all these facets together. The unified topic is a single reconciled identity, which makes it easier to find and contribute information about the linked world we live in.
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POPSBaghdad Children "armed" to teeth
More: Trade Minister Abed Falah al-Sudani considered banning the toys because they look so realistic. However, given the seeming impossibility of the task, he shelved the idea 10-year-old Haider, has another reason to play with his toy gun "I love it. I like holding it and going outside to kill evildoers. I like to go outside at night like my uncle (a member of the Mahdi Army)," said the boy wearing a ragged T-shirt. In Sadr City, in the vast ghetto where Sadr is considered a hero and his militia calls the shots, children in their war games reflect the bitter sectarian divides -- one side gets to be Shiite militiamen, the other Sunni insurgents. In other neighbourhoods, it's police versus "terrorists", or army versus Al-Qaeda, according to local news Another vendor, Hassan, 27, runs a stall in Bab al-Sharji in the centre of Baghdad. He confirmed that guns are the all-time favourites with children, male or female. "Children prefer guns to trains, balls or radios," he
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POPSNotepad++ A nice code editor, quick to start. Not bad with large files.
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POPSGoogle to make big changes I used to really enjoy "googling" and Gmail is the best.. But then I read that the son of Rupert Murdock has bought into google .....I would hate to see google turn into the internet version of Fox.
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POPSMichelle Obama Demands Racial Loyalty From African Press Intl.
. . . in the spotlight. How sad for him to go out like this. We know he respects and admires John McCain. We know, from campaign finance records, that Powell contributed the max individual contribution allowed to McCain, not to Obama as the race progressed. But, as soon as he said it wasn't about race, he blew his game. Michelle Obama, the Closer, was earlier in the campaign in charge of setting the talking points of the day on the trail. She told audiences she has never been proud of her country until her husband was doing well in this race, that America is a mean country, and that she's just a regular working mom. API is "an international news agency headquartered in Norway with 19 corespondents in North, East, West and South Africa as well as in the United Kingdom. It is widely respected for its political independence and even handedness." That description from Rudi Stettner. http://www.rudistettner.com/2008/10/michelle-obama-invokes-racial-loyalty.html
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POPSIdeas for Clipmarks : Open to the world Wouldn't be great if one can get to embed clipmarks into a blog or a website. A great way to expand the viewership of my clips and comments. Is there a way I can get a code to do this ? If there is a API, it would be fun to build this.
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POPSGoogle buys Jaiku (a twitter competitor) I'm a huge twitter fan and so haven't checked out Jaiku, but from what I understand it's basically the same idea. You send and receive short updates with your list of friends. Very interesting that the big G swooped in and picked up Jaiku and not Twitter. Maybe Biz & Ev weren't looking to sell?
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POPSBest way to embed a Flash-based MP3 player in your page A highly customizable Flash player that you can easily embed in your website or blog. Plays MP3 files or RSS/XSPF playlists. This is the player used in the excellent Grazr.com OPML browser. For a quick, easy howto on using these scripts, see this blog post .
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POPSWe Feel Fine A visualized human feelings database... difficult to explain. Just clidk 'Open We Feel Fine' & check it out yourself At the core of We Feel Fine is a data collection engine that automatically scours the Internet every ten minutes, harvesting human feelings from a large number of blogs. Blog data comes from a variety of online sources, including We Feel Fine scans blog posts for occurences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling" Once saved, the sentence is scanned to see if it includes one of about 5,000 pre-identified "feelings". This list of valid feelings was constructed by hand, but basically consists of adjectives and some adverbs. The full list of valid feelings, along with the total count of each feeling, and the color assigned to each feeling
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POPSInternet Acronym Server The search engine didn't carry across in the clip, but at the site the search engine has acronyms collected over two decades. There is also a field for submitting new ones. So many times I've seen acronyms without trying to find out what they mean. Most of the time when they are explained it is well worth the trouble, By the way <NO>OOXML refers to the plan to use Microsofts open office format OOXML as an ISO standard. i.e. Vote no. I didn't find the answer on the acronym server <*> might have been a problem , but google, which is offered as an alternate search did.
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POPSMyTago: Put hyperlinks on real stuff in real life! Sort of like semacoding. Print barcode-like labels and stick them to things. Then photograph them with your cameraphone, upload them to the web, and decode them; they function like hyperlinks. MyTago can even OCR text from photos.
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