Archives for January, 2010
Customizing and Filtering your Facebook News Channel Content
Friday, January 29th, 2010
If you’re a Facebook fan of anyone or anything, you’ll notice that their updates will appear in your News Feed and Live Feed. This is great, but somewhat unorganized. Did you know that you can now create customized filters to handle these updates? And, you can create a filter not only for Fan Pages, but [...]
Google Reader now tracks pages without feeds
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Google announced today that Google Reader will now allow you to create a custom feed to track any page on the Web, regardless of whether it provides an RSS feed or not!
Up to this point, Google Reader was a great way to aggregate all of your feeds together – now it looks like it could [...]
Spongebob Squarepants Holds the Key to National Security
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Okay, well maybe he doesn’t hold the key to national security – but he might just know what day of the week that Joe Biden’s birthday falls on next year. That is, in the eyes of a child searching the Internet.
NPR’s Weekend Edition had a piece this past Saturday on how kids search for information [...]
Quick and Easy Web Site Mockups
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I usually mock up Web sites and applications using Photoshop, and have become pretty adept at it over the last several years – so I was skeptical when I stumbled upon GoMockingbird a few weeks ago.
GoMockingbird, launched in early November of 2009, is a Web-based tool that is designed specifically for generating Web site mockups. [...]
URoomSurf Groups
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Those of you managing Facebook groups for current and/or prospective students may have seen this logo – it belongs to URoomSurf, and they’ve been busy creating class year groups for many colleges and universities over the last couple of months.
They created a group for Hamilton’s class of 2014, and they’ve been advertising in our student [...]