This was too interesting for me to not post about it. I just found out that Radiohead is breaking new ground in the world of music releases. Granted, I’m not the biggest fan of Radiohead, and certainly won’t be spending my money on their latest release, but the concept is still pretty ingenious.
While searching for some information at work, I came across a really neat Web 2.0 application called Gizmoz. Gizmoz allows you to create 3-D animated, talking characters for use on your Web site, in your blog, in your e-mail, for your own amusement, etc.
Well, Yahoo! has developed a new Web 2.0 beta version of its “My Yahoo!” interface. So far, I’m not impressed. Here are some gripes I have about the “upgrade”:
Leprakawn posted a link in the HTMLCenter forums to a neat little Flash animation. The title of the Flash animation is “Animator vs. Animation”. It’s a cool animation postulating what it would be like if a character in a Flash animation were to come to life and start attacking the mouse pointer.
The creator also made a sequel called “Animator vs. Animation II”. This one is a bit more abstract and a lot more fun. In this animation, the character escapes the Flash window and fun ensues throughout the user’s desktop.
I don’t think I’ve ever posted about this here, so I thought I would do so. If you blog regularly, then you are probably aware of the importance of Technorati. If you aren’t, then just trust me, you want your blog listed there. For those of us that are fairly ignorant of how things in the blogosphere work (like I am), I think Technorati is basically just a huge list of all blogs on the Internet. It works as a search engine, I believe, searching for specific keywords throughout blogs.
I was visiting a local radio station’s Web site today to see if they had any publicity for one of our upcoming events. Needless to say, I got a little distracted.
I came across their “link of the day” from yesterday. That link leads to the Simpsons movie Web site. The page in particular is one where you can create your own Simpsons character. Similar to the way you can create a Mii on the Nintendo Wii, you can now create a Simpsons-type character of yourself.
For those of us that are still living in the dark ages, using Internet radio instead of plugging into our iPods 24/7, I have found a very nice alternative to Launchcast. The site is called “Pandora”, and they offer quite a bit more functionality and presentation than Launchcast does.
Within this blog entry, you will find a list of pros and cons for Pandora Radio as it compares to Yahoo!’s Internet Radio application.
Okay, so I realize that the application/tool is not actually new, but I just found out about it the other day. The tool I’m talking about is the Google Webmaster toolkit. I had never heard of this before the other day.
When I heard about it, I decided to see what they had in there. It’s not anything extremely fancy, but it is a nice little diagnostic tool. The tools help you make sure that your site is being indexed on Google, they rate your search engine ranking, they allow you to test robots.txt files and they allow you to add a sitemap for better indexing.
I am just back from Austin, Texas and the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. It plain rocked overall, check out all of my coverage on CenterNetworks.
Probably the best panels for this audience are:
– How to bluff your way in Web 2.0
– Web Typography Sucks
Yes, HTMLCenter has relaunched with a new design and a new commitment to helping you with your web design and development questions. I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at where HTMLCenter has been over the last 10 years!
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