Dwight:
TripIt's core feature is the ability to accept emails with travel/booking information and then to use that information to automatically populate the user's itinerary. I'll provide an example: say you just booked an Amtrak ticket to New York. You can then forward your confirmation email from Amtrak to plans@tripit.com. In addition to their own innovation, TripIt is a superb example of software that increases its value by integrating with third party apps.
Tiffany:
On Tuesday night, a group of the DC areas leading online news practitioners gathered in a bar (go figure) to learn about the best sites and solutions for covering and digging into the new trend of government transparency. There were great presentations from Washington Post.com's Amanda Zamora and Phase2's Jeff Walpole.
Joel:
Today, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5. And, while there is an outdated plug in with the same name, maybe it should have been called "Faster"fox 3.5.
Laura:
For years, web designers have been faced with two choices when creating a text-element on a page: 1) Stick with web fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, et al, and use HTML text, or 2) Use text as images.
Lily:
Just in case you missed it - NTEN has now posted this year’s conference resources, including recordings, blogging notes, and session materials.
Lily:
The Obama campaign was founded on hope and change. Our fearless leader promised a new level of openness, not only for major issues like healthcare and corporate financial reporting, but also in the daily operations of the government. Now that he’s been in office 5 months, it’s becoming very clear that such leaps toward transparency will demand a new level of open data, technologically advanced systems, and all at a reduced price
Tirdad:
There's really no reason you should need Javascript to preload images when it can be done with a little CSS.
Tiffany:
Yesterday, I mentioned that Phase2's Jeff and Frank will be speaking on a panel this afternoon at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. If you are in San Jose, or following the conference from afar, you should check out Tom Tague's keynote this morning on "How Semantic Technologies Introduce a New Paradigm for Interaction." Tague has an incredible ability to explain semantic technologies and their importance to anyone from developers to journalists.
Joel:
In my infinite quest for knowledge on everything 'web' I've come across a slew of tools that you might find useful. Some are old, some are new, but hopefully you'll find at least one you didn't know about, that you can use.
Tiffany:
This week, Phase2's CEO, Jeff Walpole, and CTO, Frank Febbraro are hittin' the west coast for the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. They'll be speaking on the Open Calais User Group Panel on Tuesday. They will demo OpenPublish, our Drupal installation that uses Open Calais. If you are in San Jose, we hope you'll check out the panel.
