Tyler Whitaker's Infotech

Category: Web 2.0

  • 8 Great WordPress Plugins I’m Using

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    One of the first things I realized was that tylerwhitaker.com was pretty light on plugins. I have been running Akismet for spam (and it works great.) But the rest are new. If you know of any better plugins, please let me know. Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if…

  • Imagine your data on a Swivel

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    Swivel.com is the YouTube for data. Interesting business model: 1 part Google Spreadsheets, 1 part YouTube, 1 part graphics. I guess in this day and age you can take just about any idea and put it on the web and create a community around it. I like it. But I like the business ideas it…

  • ChaCha.com a Google Killer?

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    What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com For a search engine, ChaCha.com provides a clean interface and good results. But what is interesting is the human intelligence that’s injected into the equation. Can’t find what you need with other…

  • Windows Live Writer

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    My blog entries as of late have been a little sparse. I’m sure that it has something to do with my attempt to get a life and relax. I’m also thinking it has something to do with the post editor thaqt comes with WordPress. Don’t get me wrong, it works great. It’s just not as…

  • Google Spreadsheet, What will MS do now?

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    Good news for the web 2.0 world today. Google has released (via limited beta) Google Spreadsheet, their answer to Excel on the web. While it might not be as feature rich as people would like, that fact that it can read and write .xls files is a good start, not to mention the online sharing…

  • ASCII Maps and Poly9

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    Have you ever wondered what happened to the ASCII art phenomenon on the 70s and 80s? Look no further than ASCII Maps from Canadian based Poly9 Group Inc. ASCII Maps is a mashup between Google maps and ASCII art where the map data is dynamically translated into a text based representation. I’m not sure it’s really functional,…

  • Skype Offers Free Calling

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    Online Voice over IP vendor Skype has just announced free calling with in the US and Canada until the end of the year. This is an interesting move and further commoditize the long distance market. But the real questions is whether this is sustainable. I.e. How will Skype pay the bill for these PSTN calls? And…

  • Foldera Online PIM

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    Foldera is a new personal information manager (PIM) that is completely online. Complete with all of the usual Ajax goodies, this service is currently in beta. This might just be the perfect solution for someone who works on several different machines (desktop, laptop, home PC) each day. Centralizing your information out on the Internet clearly…

  • The IM Generation

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    There is an interesting article at AlwaysOn on what is being billed as the “IM Generation.” Born between 1980 and 2000, this next generation is living in a 24/7 online world where IM is more important that email. This generation is also bring a new look to the venture market where boot-strapping a company is the name…

  • April CTO Breakfast

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    I attended Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. As always we had a good discussion on all things technology. I found a couple of interesting ideas from this meeting. First off, Nathan Conger from Novell showed us some of the latest features of the SUSE Enterprise Linux desktop. I must admit that it’s been a while since I’ve played with…