Archive for the ‘Net-Tech-Tools’ Category.
26th November 2007, 11:11 pm
Are you flying home for the holidays? You might want to keep this site in mind: it’s a quick, nifty way to get an idea of the delays into/out of a particular airport.
Flight Wait’s at http://www.flightwait.com/ . You’ve got two options for using this site. First option is to click the “Show All Airport Delay” link, and you’ll get a map with lines of flight delays — the lines are colored based on how late the planes are running. Or you can choose an airport code (or zip code or city name if you don’t know the airport code) and then get a set of lines for flights, again colored based on delay.
This is cool. It would be golly-bazooka cool if you could click on a flight line and get information about a particular flight, but that’s probably expecting too much.
30th September 2007, 09:49 am
According to the top of the its page, Yahoo Podcasts (http://podcasts.yahoo.com/) is shutting down October 31. Yahoo “apologizes deeply”, but it’s still going.
I’m baffled. Yahoo Podcasts was nice. It had a lot of content. It worked. Why is it being shut down? Just as the new iPods have been released, new DRM-free music stores are becoming available on Amazon (to spur the interest in portable music and thus other portable audio content), why is it being shut down? Yahoo has one property that Google doesn’t have, why is it being shut down?
Oh, well. Perhaps we’ll hear, perhaps not. In the meantime, to find podcasts of interest I recommend Podcast Alley and PodcastPickle (and its podcast metasearch, Podcast Inspector. If you’re more interested in searching podcast transcriptions than browsing podcasts, I recommend Podzinger, which is now known as EveryZing (and which searches audio and video).
23rd September 2007, 02:51 pm
I’m still trying to figure out if Twitter has a place in my universe (for one thing, it seems like a lot of trouble to keep up with, and for two things, I’m pretty boring.) But in the meantime I’m having fun playing with TweetVolume, which allows you to enter words and see how often they’re being used on Twitter.
Looks like a Google search restricted to Twitter but it doesn’t have to be complicated to be fun. You can enter up to five words and phrases and get a graph of which words are the most popular. Try searches like breakfast lunch dinner or brand names.
If this tool made use of Google’s daterange syntax, and allowed you to do searches on words within the last week or the last month, that would be even more fun…
