Presidential Campaign Trail 2008

I think it is very interesting how the campaign trail is utilizing the web as an avenue on their campaign trail.

Here is an example on Youtube:


And here is an example on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama

Zoho

I also learned about Zoho from the Crunchies. This seems to be along the lines of google tools.

It does allow you to collaborate and save on line. But it is an alternative to google and the microsoft suite of tools. I need to play with it more to learn more about it.

I will do this and if I learn more, I will share.

But if you need to collaborate on a project and do not want to use google, check out Zoho!

Hulu (Videos???)

I found a site, Hulu, and finally was invited to join. I am still navigating through it. But I created my profile and am creating my playlist. There are episodes of some shows and such here. I was not going to follow up, but they were recognized by Crunchies.

There seems to be a lot of current technology recognized by this.

Check it out. It does take about a week or more to be invited. I need to see if I can upload a video from my flip video to this. Or if it is just a site to view episodes from tv. I think sites like this is part of the reason the writers are on strike though. So, do you join or not.

Jacob Two-two

Jacob Two-two
Originally uploaded by kuljuls.

I came across this cute cartoon Saturday morning and it was about Jacob and his library. But it really hit points on information literacy, returning books on time, and volunteering. There were even Kung-fu librarians in it. It was just adorable.

If you come across this cartoon... Check it out!

Picnik - Gotta Love it!!!

Julie Dressed to Dance - January 19, 2008 - in sepia from picnik
Originally uploaded by kuljuls.

I am just thrilled with some of the new features in the Picnik application that has beed added to Flickr. Look what I did with a photo I took of myself over the weekend. I guess I have turned into a take your own picture nerd. There was no one else around to snap the photo or photos, so I did it myself. Then after uploading the photo, I did some editing in Picnik.

Flickr was experiencing some hiccups today and I love that they used that terminology to explain why access to Flickr was limited. I am glad a site is finally honest and straight forward that there is a bump going on and be patient.

Last but not least, I came across an interesting article in yahoo
" Youth vs. adults in gadget wars" I feel like I can relate to this, but I think I also foster my mom to be open minded to technology. I helped my mom set up a myspace page and others her age ask me why my mom has a page and I just respond why not. So many folks address myspace based upon their ignorance to it. If you logged in and joined and gained an understanding, there would be a lot less misconceptions of the site along with other social networking sites and web 2.0 technologies and other gadgets! (Here is the article - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_on_hi_te/technological_turf_war;_ylt=AocQ6X7Bz1P8AAxZVfW9x4UjtBAF )

Check out Picnik in Flickr!!!

I just discovered Picnik in Flickr. I post many of my pictures from Flickr directly into this blog, just so you know. I am a Pro user and now Pro users have been given access to Picnik, which is a basic editing tool. It is relatively easy and you can edit color, fix red eye, then also be a little creative and add cute images or frames to your photo.

Another cool feature is the statistics that you can access regarding your Flickr account. Which is found under You. When I ran my stats it did take a few days to process.

I hope you enjoy Flickr and some of the new cool features. I will be uploading some new photos this evening.