tzMartin - Design, Development and Entrepreneurship

Here’s a list of directory publishers for the phone book industry.

Zendesk is a professional-grade help desk system. 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.

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

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.

Graph Gear allows you to quickly render a customizable interaction graph that is described by a graph xml file. All you need to do is embed it in your page and pass the xml over javascript. It provides nice interactive capabilities and a force directed layout. The code is editable and compilable with MTASC, and it also features a javascript api to control graph interactions.

From HP Labs, Craig Sayers has produced an experimental node-centric approach to RDF graph visualization.

Godaddy has integrated Smart Space as a way to let anyone register a domain name and then instantly turn it into a social web site. All the technical work is done for you – the site builds itself automatically.

Haptic UI for touch screens is something I’ve been waiting to see go live since viewing Nokia’s Morph Concept back in 2007. Now, it may be coming soon to an iPhone near you thanks to the the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Oh, and it’s open source too.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) seems like simple and effective method for data visualization. I just noticed that Evri.com is using a great example of SVG in the form of a RDF graph. This is interesting as I have been working on a similar project, as part of a Semantic Research application.