tools | Kris Smith has read these articles about "tools" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "tools" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpMicrosoft's MSDN Source Fource'- February 20, 2008 Limited edition developer action figures promoting Microsoft developer tools. Hard to believe there are people who think Microsoft isn't totally rad. Perhaps they can battle against the Dell Tech Force. Tags: microsoft developer perhaps rad isnhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/ Comment of the Day: Semantic Web "Great For Diddling"- February 17, 2008 Our 6th daily Comments Competition winner comes from a comment on our post 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web. It came from Alan Wilensky, who wrote that "all of the Semantic Web tech that has been so promised is great for diddling, but we haven'st seen productivity delivered." Congratulations Alan, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Amazon WishList Widget. Here is Alan's full comment which, despite starting off a little pompously,...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/236411590/semantic_web_diddling.php Google To Be Innovation Provider For GOP Convention- February 16, 2008 Guess who's attending the 2008 Republican National Convention That is, besides McCain, Rush, and all the other GOP devotees. Google! Yes, Google. The company is serving as the convention's Official Innovation Provider, said convention president and CEO Maria Cino. The announcement was, very appropriately, first made on the convention's own YouTube channel, and later followed with a press release published on the organization's main website. The relationship Google will have with the GOP is...http://mashable.com/2008/02/16/google-gop-convention/ ScreenFlow: The killer screencasting app is here- February 15, 2008 Filed under: Software, Cool toolsWhether you love them or hate them, screencasts made on Macs just got exponentially better. We at TUAW are in awe of the latest contender for your screencasting love: ScreenFlow, from Vara Software (the maker of Wirecast and Videocue). The feature set is, well, unbelievable in comparison to what is currently available on our platform of choice. And it's an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink solution, with a fantastic editor, amazing effects and simultaneous...http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/235162443/ YouTube Unveils Upcoming Features- February 14, 2008 YouTube threw a party for ad folks in New York last night to show off what's coming down its online video pike. Nope, we weren't invited, but luckily Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus, was. Even better he blogged about it. Here's a recap: YouTube's Active Sharing lets you share which videos you're watching, as you are watching them. The site will offer video recommendations based on what you are watching, similar to Amazon product recommendations. There will be upgraded video...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/newteevee/~3/235027756/ 37 Signals Launching Newsroom: Wordpress Prologue Competitor- February 13, 2008 37 Signals Backpack tool, which creates an intranet for companies, has announced a couple of upcoming features in the past few days that are meant to overall improve the service. Multi-user support is one of the features that will soon be a part of the Backpack system, and to that end, there will also be a Newsroom. The new feature is meant to offer a feature for users to be alerted to activities that have taken place since you last checked in. It is, in effect, a Twitter-like updating,...http://mashable.com/2008/02/12/backpack-newsroom/ CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site- February 12, 2008 We've been writing a lot about the trend of media companies paying more attention to citizen journalism and amateur reporting tools. Perhaps no mainstream media outlet has done more to push citizen journalism into the spotlight over the past year then CNN. In August 2006, they launched the user generated content-focused i-Report feature on their web site, which has since attracted over 100,000 submissions from users, and last summer they held the first of two CNN-YouTube presidential debates,..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/233326533/cnn_to_launch_completely_user.php Squidoo Adds One MonkeyBrained Lens- February 12, 2008 Squidoo has added another lens option to its growing options of aggregation tools, all for the purpose of self-promotion and marketing that the end users can take advantage of. More and more, Squidoo is becoming a place where individual users can establish themselves as authorities for any purpose, with the ability to aggregate content and supporting data, whether it's for an eBay seller's items or a collection of interesting videos. The latest lens from Squidoo is called Hey MonkeyBrain,...http://mashable.com/2008/02/11/squidoo-moneybrain-lens/ Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud- February 8, 2008 Y Combinator startup Heroku, which has been in private beta since October, is coming out today with more details about how it's out to ease the development and deployment of Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. There are two sides to Heroku's offering. The first is a completely in-browser development environment where RoR programmers can build their apps instead of doing so with software on their own computers. Relative to other programming languages, Ruby and the Rails framework can be...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/231144335/ Apple Inc.: Senior Human Interface Designer,Pro Apps- February 7, 2008 Location: Cupertino, CA URL: http:jobs.apple.comindex.ajsBID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=17965&CurrentPage=1 Apple's Professional Applications User Interface Group is seeking a passionate senior human Interface designer who possesses: a relentless attention to detail, a gifted eye for aesthetics and the ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex matters. The Senior HI Designer will work closely with all visual and HI designers, producers and engineers to...http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/3165 |