Aggdata is a simple, yet powerful innovation.
Chris Hathaway has been working on Aggdata for almost three years to "make data more accessible, portable and reliable".
Aggdata collates data from the web "into one file that is very raw and portable, which makes it easy to integrate into any application or website".
You can order a custom list and take discounts on packages.
The free lists are available here, which includes:
Download a file of your interest to see how powerful this can be.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
ImageMagick
ImageMagick is an image manipulation software suite compatible with more than 100 image formats. It is a GPL compatible Open Source software that may be freely used, copied, modified, and distributed.
Use it for Format Conversion, Transformation, Special Effects, GIF animation sequence and many more operations.
Look at a list of tools that use ImageMagick, including a FAQ on ImageMagick Usage.
Other related resources:
Use it for Format Conversion, Transformation, Special Effects, GIF animation sequence and many more operations.
Look at a list of tools that use ImageMagick, including a FAQ on ImageMagick Usage.
Other related resources:
- Open Source Images
- Moving to Freedom: free software, free culture, free association
- Innovations in Digital Asset Management, Circa 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Free Business Process Modeller
The BizAgi BPMN Process Modeler is offered as a freeware to entice advanced users to go for BizAgi's BPM Suite .
If you are starting out with Business Process Modeling, this is an interesting tool to explore.
Download here.
If you are starting out with Business Process Modeling, this is an interesting tool to explore.
Download here.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
A Thinking Tool
Eliyahu M. Goldratt's claim (to fame) is his scientific Thinking Processes that have helped solve some permanent problems of business (and day-to-day life as well).
An incredible innovation indeed!
It might be useful to develop expertise is using the primary thinking processes - Current Reality Tree, Evaporating Cloud, Core Conflict Cloud, Future Reality Tree, Negative Branch Reservations, Positive Reinforcement Loop, Prerequisite Tree, Transition Tree, Strategy & Tactics.
Would a software help?
Ivan Appel thinks so! He is working on jThinker - an open-source tool for visual flowcharting of thinking processes.
Subscribe to jThinker announces mailing list, that is going to be released "very, very soon!"
An incredible innovation indeed!
It might be useful to develop expertise is using the primary thinking processes - Current Reality Tree, Evaporating Cloud, Core Conflict Cloud, Future Reality Tree, Negative Branch Reservations, Positive Reinforcement Loop, Prerequisite Tree, Transition Tree, Strategy & Tactics.
Would a software help?
Ivan Appel thinks so! He is working on jThinker - an open-source tool for visual flowcharting of thinking processes.
Subscribe to jThinker announces mailing list, that is going to be released "very, very soon!"
Friday, May 30, 2008
Blogrolling, anyone?
Many bloggers maintain numerous blogs and maintaining Blog Rolls can be tedious.
I think this is a great "innnovation" opportunity.
I didn't find anything apart from http://www.blogrolling.com/. Their 1-Click BlogRolling is fantastic. Though it needs more features like "copy" from one roll to another.Also, importing is restricted to OPML format.
Suprisingly, their discussion board is full of trash.
Any innovator reading this?
I think this is a great "innnovation" opportunity.
I didn't find anything apart from http://www.blogrolling.com/. Their 1-Click BlogRolling is fantastic. Though it needs more features like "copy" from one roll to another.Also, importing is restricted to OPML format.
Suprisingly, their discussion board is full of trash.
Any innovator reading this?
Friday, April 04, 2008
Best Instant Communities
5 Best Instant Messengers Compared & Analyzed | The Best Article Every day
Lifehacker asked their readers for their favorite instant messaging applications, and over 550 comments later, they have culled it down to the most popular five:
Now, which is your favorite?
Lifehacker asked their readers for their favorite instant messaging applications, and over 550 comments later, they have culled it down to the most popular five:
Digsby (Windows)
Integrates with all IM networks as well email and social networking (Facebook and MySpace included).Pidgin (Windows/Linux)
Formerly known as Gaim, this cross-platform, open source IM client has over 3 million users.Meebo (Web)
The "most popular web-based chat application", Meebo supports all popular chat networks, video and voice chat, and even an iPhone interface.Adium (Mac OS X)
The "overwhelming favorite" chat app for OS X, Adium has some great features - is highly customizable, extensible with plug-ins, and works across all your favorite IM networks.Trillian (Windows)
Trillian has "lost a lot of users to newer apps" but they are promising a Mac release along with an iPhone version.Now, which is your favorite?
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Facebook: Benign or Evil?
Eric Elden shares "Significant new features coming to Facebook: More privacy, and chat":
The new privacy features are built around the concept of the friends list that Facebook began testing last December, where you can manually sort friends into lists that you define. Now, you’ll be able to use these lists to decide who gets to see what about you. A list can be totally private, so you can do things like upload photos and share them with your “college friends” without letting any other Facebook friends get access.
The company says users have been asking for these features as the site continues to expand across demographics and countries and users’ friends become increasingly diverse.
Also:
Facebook Chat, which has been rumored for a little while, is coming within the next several weeks.
He concludes:
Many people who started using it in college are now using it at work, with friends from high school and family members. More significantly, two-thirds of Facebook’s 65 million monthly active users are now outside the US. Just 18 months ago, 90 percent of users its users were within the US. The vast majority of users in other countries aren’t students.
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Elsewhere, a significant number of people are debating whether Facebook is benign or evil!
Kristy Ward, in The psychology of Facebook, writes:
Before Facebook was created, people that quietly observed others were referred to as Peeping Toms. These voyeurs, unnoticed in their activity, were deemed as disturbing individuals and social deviants. ... ... ...Why is Facebook so popular? Behind closed doors, are we all inherently narcissists and voyeurs?... ... ...Our society has an obsession with deviant behaviour. Take Britney Spears, for example. Her most recent antics have been plastered all over US Weekly and OK! Magazine... ... ...Maybe Facebook is both a narcissistic and voyeuristic outlet where all the creeps can come together and rejoice.
She concludes:
Don’t deny your creepiness. Find me on Facebook — but maybe I’ve already seen you and you don’t even know it.
Deirdre Molloy, having recovered from the addiction of facebook ("useful, work enhancing, fun, valuable, diverting, strange, compelling, addictive, aggravating, blundering, wasteful, alienating"), took copious notes at the SXSW Interactive keynote interview with 23-year-old Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and shared what Mark revealed:
“We’re just trying to build an infrastructure on top of which people can operate.”
“People should be able to be heard without any large organisation of millions of people. The world is an increasingly complex place and we need something – an infrastructure – on top of which people can communicate and do it [organise] from the bottom-up.”
“In terms of community we consider it to be a very personal thing. People aren’t being forced into any community, it’s more about allowing them to communicate more and keep in touch with people.”
She concludes:
Which side of the fence are you on?
The new privacy features are built around the concept of the friends list that Facebook began testing last December, where you can manually sort friends into lists that you define. Now, you’ll be able to use these lists to decide who gets to see what about you. A list can be totally private, so you can do things like upload photos and share them with your “college friends” without letting any other Facebook friends get access.
The company says users have been asking for these features as the site continues to expand across demographics and countries and users’ friends become increasingly diverse.
Also:
Facebook Chat, which has been rumored for a little while, is coming within the next several weeks.
He concludes:
Many people who started using it in college are now using it at work, with friends from high school and family members. More significantly, two-thirds of Facebook’s 65 million monthly active users are now outside the US. Just 18 months ago, 90 percent of users its users were within the US. The vast majority of users in other countries aren’t students.
....................................................................................
Elsewhere, a significant number of people are debating whether Facebook is benign or evil!
Kristy Ward, in The psychology of Facebook, writes:
Before Facebook was created, people that quietly observed others were referred to as Peeping Toms. These voyeurs, unnoticed in their activity, were deemed as disturbing individuals and social deviants. ... ... ...Why is Facebook so popular? Behind closed doors, are we all inherently narcissists and voyeurs?... ... ...Our society has an obsession with deviant behaviour. Take Britney Spears, for example. Her most recent antics have been plastered all over US Weekly and OK! Magazine... ... ...Maybe Facebook is both a narcissistic and voyeuristic outlet where all the creeps can come together and rejoice.
She concludes:
Don’t deny your creepiness. Find me on Facebook — but maybe I’ve already seen you and you don’t even know it.
Deirdre Molloy, having recovered from the addiction of facebook ("useful, work enhancing, fun, valuable, diverting, strange, compelling, addictive, aggravating, blundering, wasteful, alienating"), took copious notes at the SXSW Interactive keynote interview with 23-year-old Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and shared what Mark revealed:
“We’re just trying to build an infrastructure on top of which people can operate.”
“People should be able to be heard without any large organisation of millions of people. The world is an increasingly complex place and we need something – an infrastructure – on top of which people can communicate and do it [organise] from the bottom-up.”
“In terms of community we consider it to be a very personal thing. People aren’t being forced into any community, it’s more about allowing them to communicate more and keep in touch with people.”
She concludes:
Egad, Zuckerberg posits Facebook as platform for mass diversity shocker! And yet it’s not so clear-cut. Maybe Mark’s been reading Jaron Lanier? Or perhaps his advisors have been. In turn, spare me the conspiracy schtick; I think it’s a whole lot more confusing and interesting than that. In my book (sic), as both a creature and driver of the complex world, the Facebook story is not over yet – whether you consider it evil, benign or a panacea for all ills.
It’s been an interesting year now social media’s gone mainstream. We’ve lived it, and learnt a few lessons. The gist of it all? Like the SXSW interview, it’s been messy.
What about you?Which side of the fence are you on?
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