The Big Picture - Boston.com

The Big Picture is a photo blog by Alan Taylor published by the Boston Globe/Boston.com. Roughly three times a week he posts a photograph that illustrates a news story.

Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import

Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import Via Mashable

TwitDir - a Twitter directory

TwitDir is a searchable directory of Twitter users. TwitDir lets you search by keyword and user name.

XRAY - for web developers

XRAY is a bookmarklet for Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla. Use it to see the box model for any element. For a screencast demonstration, follow this link: XRAY Demo... By way of Simple Bits...

SketchUp Buildings

SketchUp Buildings - This weblog highlights the newest buildings that have been uploaded to the Google 3D warehouse.

LeaderTalk Post

LeaderTalk: Looking at Data... With Google Earth: Latest post on Leadertalk.

JotForm Form Builder

JotForm JotForm is a web based WYSIWYG AJAXy form builder. Its drag and drop user interface makes form building easy. Using JotForm, you can create forms, integrate them to your site and collect submissions from your visitors. Examples include...

• Contact Form
• Blog Contact/Survey
• Event Calendar
• Document Uploader
• Satisfaction Survey
• Time Sheet
• Job Application Form
• RSVP for a Party or Wedding
• Bug Tracker
• Reservation Form

Readability Scores in Google Docs

The word count feature in Google Docs displays not only word, character, paragraph, and sentence counts, but now also readability estimates.

Google Apps to Offer Version of YouTube

Business Week has an article about Google Apps and reports that Google is preparing a Google Apps version of YouTube to create videos for training and employee communications. I hope this comes to the Apps version for education. We could post our student video projects and such without fear of being blocked by the district filter. by way of Mashable...

Display your KML on a Google Map

Chris O'Sullivan has created a Rails application (Display KML on a Map) that let's you quickly test KML code directly in Google Maps. While Google Maps will display KML files, the KML file first has to be saved someplace. This method allows you to copy and paste the KML code into a text field and then display the KML information within Google Maps. You then need to zoom the map in manually to display the KML information. This is nice for testing and saves time since you don't have to first upload the KML file in order to see how it looks in Google Maps... By way of OgleEarth