Quote from ‘Kafka on the Shore’ – Murakami
I love how random Haruki Murakami gets:
"Are you really Colonel Sanders?"
Colonel Sanders cleared his throat. "Not really. I'm just taking on his appearance for a time."
"That's what I thought," Hoshino said. "So what are you really?"
"I don't have a name."
"How do you get along without one?"
"No problem. Basically I don't have a name or a shape"
"So you're kind of like a fart."
"You could say that."
Flickr adds people-tagging, finally joins the bandwagon
A feature that many in the Flickr community have been requesting for years has finally been implemented.
What?! No @ sign in front of the names??
Wordpress BlogInfo variables
bloginfo('atom_url'); //ATOM feed for site bloginfo('charset'); //The character set bloginfo('description'); //The description of the blog bloginfo('html_type'); //HTML version of the site bloginfo('name'); //Title of blog bloginfo('pingback_url'); //The pingback URL bloginfo('rss2_url'); //The RSS URL bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); //The URL for the template's CSS file bloginfo('template_url'); //The URL of the template bloginfo('url'); //The address of the blog bloginfo('version'); //Version of the WordPress installation bloginfo('wpurl'); //URL for WordPress installation
Google Wave adds online-status indicator
This was the biggest lacking feature in Google Wave (for me) for a while. Nice to see it added!
Gmail cleans up navigation
Big thanks to Gmail for taking out the annoying 'sites' from the menu:
Awesome.
Twitter tools
Tweetdeck
Personally, I think this is the best Twitter client/interface I've used so far - they also have a version available for the iPhone.
TweetStats
Find out more about your Tweeting-patterns:
Twitalyzer
Find out about your Twitter 'influence', 'signal', 'generosity', 'velocity' and 'clout':
TweetPsych
This is interesting - build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets:
Twitter Karma
Find out who isn't following you back and who you're not following:
BackTweets
Lets you search for links on twitter (even through URL shorteners). Useful if you want to see who's been tweeting about your website. They also have a Wordpress plugin for it.
Twuffer
Twuffer is a "Twitter Buffer" that allows you to schedule tweets for a later time
Qwitter
Qwitter lets you know when someone has stopped following you
Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments. You can also follow me on twitter
Google Wave: View all public waves
Search for with:public and you'll have enough to keep you busy testing.
Update: To make your wave publicly viewable, add this "public@a.gwave.com"
Note: You have to add it in the contact list on the bottom-left of the screen. It might not accept the email address, but just press enter anyway and it should work.
Note2: Sometimes the address will disappear from your list - in which case, add it again (I know, it's annoying).