Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Visualize Your Twitter Stream With IS Parade



http://isparade.jp/


Twitter visualisations come in many forms, but IS Parade is arguably the most inventive yet.
Start a 'parade' of tweets across your csreen either by keyword, or by Twitter ID. Use your own Twitter ID and you'll see a parade of your own followers, which is a bit of an ego boost at least...
You can set up your own real-time parade by getting friends to tweet the same keyword, and then setting up a parade to follow it. Not the most fuctional Twitter tool yet, but it does draw you in. All done by a Japanese agency to promote Sharp's new IS series Android netbook/smartphone.
Courtesy of Jemima Kiss

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Word Play With Wordle

I just discovered this cool new site that pics all the common words from your rss enabled site and puts them on one cloud-like page format for users to explore. Try it out here http://www.wordle.net/

Recommended book:  ==>

Keep Track Of Your Expenses Online

I just signed up and http://1daylater.com is a very cool site for people always on the move but need to keep track of their finances.


Monday, July 12, 2010

The Special Friend



As we all go through this journey called life, many things happen that change our perspective on how we deal...how we cope and handle things. We meet people, some we keep as friends for a long time, even maybe a lifetime, and others we pass on along the way. I've met the latter...a close good friend. But then again, a special friend.

Okay picture this, you are driving on the highway, bobbing your head to the cool morning jams when from a distance you hear this vibrating noise. So you turn down the stereo to get a better listen but just can't really pin where the sound is coming from...but you figure it sounds like a helicopter so you start to glimpse at the skies wondering how low the helicopter could be flying coz the sound just got louder. Then you decide just to pull over at the next garage only to realize the noise you were hearing was coming from your car. You had been driving on the highway all this time on a flat tyre. Hmmm...now you understand why passing cars were trying to wave you down. And here you thought they were just being friendly LOL.

Or when you start a new job in a new company, all excited and hyped up that at the end of the day you discover that you didn't make a mental note of where you parked your car. It's 17H30 and you are still pacing from basement to mezzanine, bay to bay looking for your car. Everyone's gone home and it's just you and the building security guards, so you do the only thing you can and that's ask the security guards to help you with the search.

Funny thing about these stories is that they happened to my friend...my special friend :). She never lacks some interesting adventure every week. It's like if I had to blog every story, every encounter she's had with the paranormal, I'd probably have 3 times the number of posts here. Hey either way, she still rocks.

Regards to my cuz Skips :)