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Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin | Nik Kalyani's Blog
Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin | Nik Kalyani's Blog
"I have always been fascinated by the visual clarity of the London Underground map. Given the number of cities that have adopted this mapping approach for their own subway systems, clearly this is a popular opinion. At a conference some years back, I saw a poster for the Yahoo! Developer Services. They had taken the concept of a subway map and applied it to create a YDN Metro Map. Once again, I was in awe of the visual clarity of this map in helping one understand the various Yahoo! services and how they inter-related with each other. I thought it would be awesome if there were a pseudo-programmatic way in which to render such maps to convey real-world ecosystems."
·kalyani.com·
Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin | Nik Kalyani's Blog
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes « James Somers (jsomers.net)
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes « James Somers (jsomers.net)
See that little gizmo above? It’s like a video player, but made especially for writing. This one’s from an Atlantic article I began work on nearly four years ago, on the day after Christmas in 2010. The article was about the first (and only) time I got to fly a small airplane. At the time, I didn’t give the slightest thought to the idea that one day I’d be able to watch the draft unfold. But since I happened to write this one in Google Docs, I can recover every keystroke. Above, you can see the first uncertain stirrings of the first paragraph. What’s neat about this is that I didn’t have to use any special software while I was writing to make this “video” possible. I was working in plain old vanilla Google Docs. And to show you this one paragraph I liked, I didn’t have to present you with the whole document (all 39,154 revisions of it) — I could extract bits and pieces that I thought were interesting, and interleave them in a blog post. Imagine what a high school English teacher could do with that. To produce the embed, I used a website I made called draftback.com, which I suppose I’m launching right now. With Draftback, you can play back and analyze any of your own Google Docs, or, for that matter, any Google Doc you have permission to edit.
·features.jsomers.net·
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes « James Somers (jsomers.net)
Park or Bird?
Park or Bird?
"Want to know if your photo is from a U.S. national park? Want to know if it contains a bird? Just drag it into the box to the left, and we'll tell you. We'll use the GPS embedded in your photo (if it's there) to see whether it's from a park, and we'll use our super-cool computer vision skills to try to see whether it's a bird (which is a hard problem, but we do a pretty good job at it)."
·parkorbird.flickr.com·
Park or Bird?
jQuery Before/After Plugin | Catch My Fame
jQuery Before/After Plugin | Catch My Fame
"Not long ago the New York Times had an article which showed a road in Brooklyn that had been reconstructed to make it safer and more pleasing to the eye. To show the difference  in the reconstruction project, they showed a before and after picture using Flash that let the visitor drag a slider over the images, which were sandwiched with one on top of the other, so that you could easily see how dramatic the changes were. I immediately thought that this could be done in JavaScript using jQuery, so I set out to do it. Here’s the result:"
·catchmyfame.com·
jQuery Before/After Plugin | Catch My Fame
I Am Using Kimono Labs To Fill In Gap For Companies Who Do Not Have AN RSS Feed For Their Blog
I Am Using Kimono Labs To Fill In Gap For Companies Who Do Not Have AN RSS Feed For Their Blog
"I am tracking on around 2500 companies who are doing interesting things in the API space. Out of these companies about 1000 of them have blogs, which for me is a pretty important signal. About 1/4 of these companies with blogs, do not have an RSS feed, which in 2014 seems a little odd to me, but maybe I'm an old timer."
·apievangelist.com·
I Am Using Kimono Labs To Fill In Gap For Companies Who Do Not Have AN RSS Feed For Their Blog
nFiles - Upload, get URLs to share
nFiles - Upload, get URLs to share
"To share things on internet, you share URLs. To share URLs, you need to host things somewhere on internet. But, you don't want to deal with hosting, domain registration, web design ... You just want to put your things somewhere and get URLs to share! nFiles is here for you. We understand, you just want URLs."
·nfil.es·
nFiles - Upload, get URLs to share
ShowOff
ShowOff
"ShowOff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine - think S5 Slidedown. I am using it to do all my talks in 2010, because I have a deep hatred in my heart for Keynote and yet it is by far the best in the field. Showoff allows you to author your presentation slides in Markdown, then organize them with a showoff.json file. This file also contains metadata about the presentation, such as the title, any password protection, etc. Then you just run showoff serve in the presentation directory and open a browser window."
·github.com·
ShowOff
Kafka’s Wound
Kafka’s Wound
The inspiration for ‘Kafka’s Wound’ came from Will Self, but collaboration has been at its heart. While Will Self wrote the main essay, taking as his point of departure Franz Kafka’s story ‘A Country Doctor’, much of the additional content was researched or created by over 70 others. Working within the limits imposed by time (fourteen weeks) and budget (generously awarded by the Arts Council/BBC Space project), and under the direction of Nicholas Spice and Helen Jeffrey from the London Review of Books, a group of web developers, editors, researchers, academics and artists, with Will Self at their head, have explored the possibilities offered by digital media to fashion a different kind of literary essay.
·thespace.lrb.co.uk·
Kafka’s Wound
Frostbox Automated Social Media Backup
Frostbox Automated Social Media Backup
Frostbox is an automated daily backup service for social media & more, Get a protected & encrypted archive of all your photos, Contacts, Gmails etc.. From storing a copy of your Flickr, Instagram and Facebook photos, backing up your friends and contacts from LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook to securing your videos and messages for posterity, we have got it all covered.
·frostbox.com·
Frostbox Automated Social Media Backup
Unhangout
Unhangout
A platform for unconferences. On the web. Unhangout is an open source platform for running large scale online un-conferences. We use Google Hangouts to create as many small sessions as needed, and help users find others with shared interests. Think of it as a classroom with an infinite number of breakout sessions. Each event has a landing page, which we call the lobby. When participants arrive, they can see who else is there and chat with each other. The hosts can do a video welcome and introduction that gets streamed into the lobby. Participants then break out into smaller sessions (up to 10 people per session) for in-depth conversations, peer-to-peer learning, and collaboration on projects. UnHangouts are community-based learning instead of top-down information transfer.
·unhangout.media.mit.edu·
Unhangout
Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia
Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia
Listen to Wikipedia's recent changes feed. The sounds indicate addition to (bells) or subtraction from (strings) a Wikipedia articles, and the pitch changes according to the size of the edit. Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots. You may see announcements for new users as they join the site -- you can welcome him or her by adding a note on their talk page.
·listen.hatnote.com·
Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia
Community Edition Overview | RunRev
Community Edition Overview | RunRev
Create your own apps and utilities using LiveCode Community Edition. This full featured programming environment allows you to create open source apps for all major platforms including Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and Server. Download it completely free and start making your ideas come to life.
·runrev.com·
Community Edition Overview | RunRev
VideoNot.es
VideoNot.es
Load a video, take notes, have them synced, and save everything to GDocs...AWESOME
·video.unishared.com·
VideoNot.es
Little Outliner
Little Outliner
Little Outliner is an easy to learn, entry-level outliner that runs in a web browser.
·littleoutliner.com·
Little Outliner
Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online. Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience. View them on SpeakerDeck.com, or share them on any website with an embed code.
·speakerdeck.com·
Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
Pancake.io
Pancake.io
Publish from Dropbox straight to the web
·pancake.io·
Pancake.io
import•io is data, simply
import•io is data, simply
Making data from the web as easy as copy & paste. Whether you're a programmer, analyst, or just want to be informed, we make it simple to extract the data you need.
·import.io·
import•io is data, simply