Wikivest Embeddable Widget

Here is the Wikivest embeddable widget

View the full MSFT chart at Wikinvest

Zoho: A Comprehensive Application Suite

While searching about for a decent online PIM, I found a really cool web-based application and productivity suite called Zoho. What's really cool about it is that provides a number of well written web 2.0 applications that fall under productivity, collaboration and business.  For example, under productivity and collaboration there is a web-based email service, a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation suite.  Under business applications you'll find CRM, project management, database, invoicing and web conferencing.

A really nice feature is the Notebook.  In it you can place, among other things, spreadsheets, web pages, audio, video and text.  Once you've created all of your pages you can publish your notebook.  It will provide you with a url or code to embed into your blog or website.  Here is a sample:





So check it out and create your own notebooks, write documents, create spreadsheets, and just have fun.

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My Scribd-Published Resume

Here is my published resume from Scribd.



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Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Career Résumé/C.V. java ruby

Hologramania at CNN

I missed it yesterday, but CNN has one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. I might be in the minority, which is something I found quite surprising. Just like so many others, I am embedding the video here in my post:





When I was a young child I would sit in the den with my mother and watch the original Start Trek episodes.  This was in the early seventies.  It captured and fed my overactive adolescent imagination and it got me through a lot of awkward year: yes, I was not so popular...with anyone.  But the original Star Trek lacked something that most of the subsequent spin offs had.  The holodeck.

CNN's hologram technology is certainly not a holodeck.  Far from it.  But where others see the potential of web conferencing (boring), I see things differently.  So remove Jessica (the one being holo projected) from the picture.  Then add 3D generated imagine.  Let's say a full sized Lara Croft.  Now add dark corners of the world and you can almost literally stand next to the action as you control it.   But instead of a keyboard or joystick or some other primitive device, your very movements would control her.  From jumping to swimming, punching to shooting, you would control it all and have a kickass VR-like experience.

Okay.  So maybe this technology is too limited and, it's certainly too expensive.  But perhaps its that stone upon which CNN is the first to step. 

Issuu: Publish Your Documents for Free

There is a neat site where you can publish your documents (magazines, ebooks, journals, resumes, etc.) for free, and you can embed widgets into your blog or a web page that allows your viewers instant access to a very nice looking interactive version of your document.  In fact here is my resume, animated, and when you click on a page you'll be taken to it at Issuu so you can browse it.

Get your own - Open publication