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Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:03:00 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed
clipper's remarks: There's a couple more on the referring page that I wasn't able to capture without going over my clip limit.

Clip Source: www.micropersuasion.com

Twit This - send a web page directly into Twitter (requires you first enter your info on the TwitThis site)

Map This - pops up a window, enter an address and you will take you to the map

Gmail-to-Gcal - takes any selected text in Gmail and converts it into an event

Share on Facebook - takes a web page and sticks it into Facebook as a shared item

Take Screenshot - automatically create a screen grab of any public web page you're visiting

New Doc - creates a new word processing Google Document

Amazon This - pops up a little window, enter a term and it will run your search through on Amazon

Convert Me - takes any YouTube video and converts it into another downloadable format using Zamzar

Edit in Picnik - pushes a web page's images into Picnik where you can edit and save it

Tags: bookmarklet

Top 10 Greasemonkey Scripts

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:07:14 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed
clipper's remarks: I'm always looking for ways to improve/tweak my Firefox, and this is a nice starter list.

Clip Source: www.onetipaday.com

Remove Google Ads: Removes Google/Adsense ads from all pages
Google Reader Optimized: Uses the maximum amount of space for the feed viewing area, at the expense of all unnecessary UI elements
Del.icio.us Meets Google: Replaces Yahoo Ads on Del.icio.us with Google Results

Download Google Videos: Lets you download Google Videos
Force Reader: Add feeds to Google Reader automatically without having to view a bridge page
Gmail CSS Skin: Make Gmail look even sexier. So cool
GmailTo: Opens Gmail compose window whenever you click on an email address in a webpage
Try This Search On: Google may be the best search engine, but it’s not perfect. This script tries to detect when you are searching any website and then provides links to do a similar search on: Amazon.com, Ask.com, dmoz, Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and many other sites
Gmail random signature: Make your emails cooler with a random signature
Google Translate: Translate any page into the selected language

Tags: firefox, greasemonkey

Help Find Jim Gray

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:30:22 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

When famous computer scientist Jim Gray went missing a few days ago, the coast guard launched a large scale search that found absolutely nothing. On Thursday, they gave up.

Then Amazon stepped in. They arranged for a satellite sweep of the area and stored the images on their S3 storage service. They then created a task on their Mechanical Turk service to allow volunteers to scan the images to look for the boat. It’s a tough task - the boat would only be about six pixels in size in an image, and there was a lot of cloud cover obscuring large parts of the area scanned. But volunteers are pouring in to help out.

If you’d like to help, go to this task on Mechanical Turk. You’ll be asked to view five satellite images and note any that should be looked at more closely.

Tags: amazon, mechanical turk, jim gray, volunteer