Archive for January, 2009

Directory Publishers: Phone Book – YP WP

By tzmartin On January 31, 2009

Here is a list of phone book / directory publishers that I have compiled. If you have any others to add, leave a comment and I’ll update the list.

3L System Group The Little Green Books Bahamas GoldenPages
Lawrence, Kansas Internet Yellow Pages Your Online Advertising Partner Your Source for Information
The Little Blue Book Data Publishing Directory Publishing Solutions
The Big Print Book... Always On Top First To Be Chosen™ Always There™ Golden State Directory Corporation
A CenturyTel Company Hometown Phone Book Impact Directories
The Business Directory That Helps Support Local Businesses in Australia Bermuda Yellow Pages Chile Yellow Pages
MacVan Publishing Bilingual Yellow Pages Five Star Phone Books!
Antigua & Barbuda Telephone Directory Large Print Directories Easy-to-Read™ Yellow Pages
The Readable Yellow Pages™ Salt Lake Community Telephone Directories The Better Book... Since 1985
The Guam Phone Book The BEST phone books in town! Your Guide to the Pacific Northwest
Tarheel Publishing Company Northern Directory Publishing Canyon Publishing
A Beautiful Place to Call Home South Dakota's - Find It Here - Telephone Directory eScout
Personal Touch - Advanced Communications

Source: InformationPages | PARTNERS.

Video Demo: ZenDesk

By tzmartin On January 26, 2009

ZenDesk

“ZenDesk”
Company: Zendesk ApS, Denmark
Type: Help Desk, Hosted Solution
URL: http://www.zendesk.com
Platform: Ruby/ HTML

Competitive Advantage:

Zendesk is a professional-grade help desk system that has an API for extensibility and a low cost proposition.  It has been designed using ITIL best practices and is in every possible way geared towards providing support and service. Not customer relationship management, bug tracking or project management.

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Notes: Andrea Baker – Government 2.0 trends to watch

By tzmartin On January 26, 2009

This is interesting…

What’s the next step in blog evolution?

Andrea Baker: I’d like to see an evolution of blogs as the next step for us. We use WordPress blogs as our platform in the federal government. Everybody is blogging and sharing information, which is great. Now we want to take it to the next level with smarter blogs. We want to bring in more plug-ins and other complimentary technologies to increase the value of our blog posts. It would also make the information easier to find. We’re always looking for better technologies to increase the findability of information that we’ve already been creating.

via ExecutiveBiz Blog» Blog Archive » Andrea Baker: Government 2.0 trends to watch.

So, you’re looking for a content management system (CMS), based on semantic standards, with an API for data portability?  Check.   Then, you’re probably interested in Semantic Press.

Google's Gadget Infrastructure: Shindig

By tzmartin On January 22, 2009

On the topic of gadget infrastructure, I found this on the Official Gmail Blog:

“We’re using common gadget infrastructure, such as the Apache Shindig project, and working with other gadget containers to make gadgets more portable.”

And, from Shindig’s site…

What is Shindig?

Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial specification and gadgets specification.

The architectural components of Shindig can be broken down as follows:

  • Gadget Container JavaScript – core JavaScript foundation for general gadget functionality. This JavaScript manages security, communication, UI layout, and feature extensions, such as the OpenSocial API.
  • Gadget Server — used to render the gadget XML into JavaScript and HTML for the container to expose via the container JavaScript.
  • OpenSocial Container JavaScript — JavaScript environment that sits on top of the Gadget Container JavaScript and provides OpenSocial specific functionality (profiles, friends, activities, datastore).
  • OpenSocial Data Server — an implementation of the server interface to container-specific information, including the OpenSocial REST APIs, with clear extension points so others can connect it to their own backends.

Here’s a pretty good write up on the Shindig Java API.

Interesting.  I wonder what other gpl “Gadget” specs are out there?

Gmail Gadget: Monitor Twitter Feeds

By tzmartin On January 22, 2009

Gmail Gadget

I was reading over the Google Blog regarding a new feature that allows you to add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file (e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml). I tested the feature and found that you can’t edit the Gadget settings within Gmail.  So, I hacked a quick Gmail Gadget.

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