Tag Archives: Todo

Google Maps Walking Tour

By alex | Published: 2/27/2005
Tim Bray posted a link to Udell’s Google Maps walking tour of Keene, NH, in case anyone (like me), hadn’t seen it. This is really very cool: it’s what happens when you allow others to co-design your service. I don’t know how many of the current MI students read my blog (I suspect very few), […]
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Google Autolinker

By alex | Published: 2/4/2005
Joho links to the Google Auto Linker, a tool that searches through a piece of text and finds the longest matching result from chained words. It’s not clear whether it stops for stop-punctuation (period, questions mark), but it appears to in the example. I had been interested in doing something like this after watching a […]
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Tagging

By alex | Published: 1/5/2005
While people tend to think that I am an early adopter, I am not. For one thing, I am too poor to be an early adopter. I am naturally pretty cautious — almost in spite of myself. So I am late to the folksonomy stuff. Sure, when they were launched I played with del.icio.us, and […]
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EPIC 2014

By alex | Published: 12/19/2004
This has already been widely blogged, but I didn’t pick it up in my scan because I misread what it was. The tag is as follows: In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC? This is a […]
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