Bye, bye Google Notebook

So, GoogleNotebook will no longer be actively developed. I’ve got a Notebook set up – though I’ve not used it much. There are a number of alternatives, however, this is something that we need to take care of when selecting a tool. With Google, I’ve tended to assume that things will not be removed, but…

Debategraph

Someone called “Debategraph” started following me on Twitter, so I thought I’d investigate a little. I’ve now found his (or her!) home page. It’s an interesting idea – seems to be related mind maps. The default one was on Obama (with a link to the Independent – wonder if they use them quite a bit)…

Drawter

I think this is going to be the last “new tool of the day” – Drawter for planning page layouts and then generating the HTML/CSS to support them. It’s not an end point – for example, the max width would seem to be c. 640 px – and not possible to use % for layout….

Storytlr

I’d signed up to Twistory, after reading about it last week, and really rather like it. When I first signed up, I wasn’t tweeting that much. However, fairly shortly afterwards I was at ReLIVE08 & there was a very active back channel. Suddenly Twitter started to make sense & then I wanted to feed all…

Etherpad.

I saw Etherpad on Jane Knight’s blog a few days ago – and thought it sounded good – though didn’t sign up at the time. Yesterday, someone else reminded me of it – so I thought I’d have a look. Unfortunately, it seems that too many others have thought the same as me – so…

Glide OS

I’m just testing GlideOS. It apparently offers you 10GB of storage free, it’s possible to create documents & presentations, to email them to people; to share the desktop with up to 5 users (for free). It uses popups for the various tools; Firefox though, didn’t let me know it had blocked them, so I was…

Academia.edu

Academia.edu | Home An attempt to map who’s doing what, where. C’mon Portsmouth, there’s only 7 of us listed, as does Southampton; but Plymouth has 54, and Edinburgh 58! It’s not the fastest of websites, and adding your interests is a little slow. It’s good, in that there’s a list to choose from – thus…