Linkroll Broken

A couple of people pinged me today wondering where their companies went in my linkroll in the sidebar. It seems that the script I am using maxes out at 100 items, and they were rolling off the list in order of tenure. So, you will see that a number of very prominent companies in the space aren't in the sidebar, including notables like:

• Last.fm
• MyStrands
• Qloud
• Fiql

And a number of others. I'll have to find another script that lets me display more links, but in the meantime you can always see/subscribe to the entire list here:

http://del.icio.us/rss/jherskowitz/music2.0

Sorry guys, I wasn't dissing you.... but thanks for bringing it to my attention

Buddy Feed + 30 Boxes = Timeline

Not sure who has seen this yet, but if you populate your AIM buddy feed with enough inputs, then dump it into 30 Boxes (www.30boxes.com), you can get a pretty nice timeline of your day.

For those that haven't used AIM's Buddy Update feature yet, I recommend it. It's basically a feed splicer (mine includes my Last.fm Just Played, Flickr, Blogger posts, YouTube and Delicious). When you update something, your buddies (that use AIM 6.0) will see an "i" icon light up next your name in the buddy list. By clicking it, they will see all of your updates.

Just check out the "View Timeline" badge towards the bottom of the sidebar.

The other one to try is www.mytimelines.net, although I've had trouble getting that to embed properly on Blogger.

Firefox 2.0 & Performancing Extension

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about writetomyblog.com. Performancing is another tool that looks pretty useful in this regard. It runs as a Firefox extenstion and makes it really easy to post and comment about a page in an easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor that essentially pops open as a drawer from the bottom of your Firefox window.

You can drag and drop images right from the page into your post (see below), which is really nice.

They've got some other analysis tools, but if/once I ever move to Firefox full-time, I'll look more into it. Right now, I'm also running IE7 (which I like) because some of my favorite destinations don't yet work in FFX (due to ActiveX implementations), but hopefully soon I will be able to settle on one browser and stick with it.

powered by performancing firefox

powered by performancing firefox

WriteToMyBlog

I found a couple cool new web apps this week. The first, Competitio.us, is a collaborative competitve analysis tool. It seems like it could be valuable for multiple team members to update news, feature matrices adn messages. I'm starting to play with it now, and it seems promising.

The next, is WriteToMyBlog (which I'm using to write this post). It is basically an advanced WYSIWYG editor that can be used for multiple blogging platforms (including sending a single post to multiple blogs simultaneously). It appears to be a much more robust editor than Blogger has (not sure about the others). Easy inclusion of tables, flash files, custom javascript pop-up controls, code cleaner, spell-checker, and more.

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Tags: cool+tools