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Tools for Transparency: 15 Tools You Might Have Missed

Scott Stadum — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:45:37 +0000

It's been a while since I've posted a round-up of the latest Tools for Transparency posts. Playing a bit of catch-up here, I've posted the last 15 posts going back to the beginning of the year. Take a look, in case you missed any of them -

Know Your Acronyms & Hashtags - May 26, 2011

Status Updates with PixelPipe - May 13, 2011

A Look at #TCamp11 - May 5, 2011

Leveraging Game Mechanics with DailyFeats - April 28th, 2011

Google Reader is Still Relevant, Part II - April 22nd, 2011

Google Reader is Still Relevant, Part I - April 14th, 2011

Broadcastr – What’s your OpenGov story? - April 8th, 2011

Tell Your Story with Storify - March 24th, 2011

Sharing News on Tumblr - March 18th, 2011

Stay Educated through Foursquare - March 10, 2011

Build a Transparency Search Engine - March 3rd, 2011

Opening Up Data with Socrata - February 24th, 2011

Analyzing Engagement with PostRank Part 2 - February 17th, 2011

Analyzing Engagement with PostRank Part 1 - February 10th, 2011

Guest Blogger Roundup - February 3rd, 2011 (how meta, a round-up of round-ups)

As I continue writing about Tools for Transparency, do you have any thoughts on topics I should write about?

“WAVE” Goodbye to 2009

Brent — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:45:12 +0000

Good day for news on the web

Brent — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:29:39 +0000

First up, Internet Radio

Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved – from Techcrunch

and some good news from Google -Google Apps outta beta:

Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) – from Google

and Microsoft steals some of the spotlight from Google’s Clean Energy Revolution

Microsoft Hohm

Finally, if you need video (any video) to run smoothly on your Windows machine, try VideoLan. We were first turned onto VideoLan by Rick Tulloch which in turn saved our collective arses from the woes of jerky video in front of hundreds at the Palace. Now…

VideoLan Turns One

mahalo Rick!

Less Walls

Brent — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:42:20 +0000

Here’s a snippt from techmeme you should read. This changes things.

Until now there was a huge wall to cross to get between social parties. No more. Mr. Facebook bring down that wall!

Facebook Launches OpenID Support – Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts
“…once users link their Facebook account to a Gmail address (or OpenID URL), they’ll be automatically logged in when they go to Facebook after having logged into that service. Facebook says that in its user testing so far, users who register through OpenID actually get engaged with Facebook more quickly than others.”

Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:

Discussion:

Luke Shepard / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Supports OpenID for Automatic Login

Google Android OS Bridge?

Brent — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:18:30 +0000

One good thing about being a jack of all and master of nothing is the innate ability to adopt new technologies. With this comes a responsibility to also try new things.

This includes operating systems, devices, browsers/applications and online services. One of the most difficult gaps to bridge for the tech industry has been the gap between using a phone and using a pc. This must surely be causing headaches in phone application adoption. The iPhone is an exception and I believe this is due to the ease of use.

Google Android might be the perfect bridge. A tweet this morning caused me to think differently. Bloomberg is reporting the possibility of the Google Andriod phone OS being preinstalled on ASUS Netbook. This netbook would probably cost about $500 bucks.

Not only would this be within reach of students but also transitional web workers. For me and a small group of webmasters (small?) we would love being able to use the same OS for our desktop, laptop and phone. I could imagine being able to move my OS between devices giving me ultimate adoption of a single OS.

Windows Mobile on my Motorola Q is gross. Instead of “surprisingly pleasant” Verizon continues to prefer a “barely legal” customer service model. Windows Vista seems as far away from mobile-based as the nearest cell phone tower. I don’t mean to grumble.

I’m trying to point out the value in having a single OS to work on and what I feel would be a landslide of support for any user experience that bridges the mobile and office models seamlessly. We don’t need syncing. We need fluidity.