Even Google is not secure from the downturns on the economy. This week it announced the discontinuation of its virtual world service called Lively. Lively was launched with a lot of fanfare earlier this month, but quickly lost traction with the crowd. I personally only checked it out once. Google does give a reason for why it is shutting down the service on its own blog here. Here’s the gist of this reason:
Contemplate the pictures that are shown in this post. These are wonders of nature, so beautiful that they are almost mesmerizing. I stumbled upon these pictures a while ago and decided that I HAD to share them on my blog.
But before the pictures, a little bit about the site I picked them up from. This is the homepage for Butterflies For Africa - a Butterfly house in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Here are the pretty pictures:
This article will compare two popular online Mind Mapping tools: Mindomo and Mindmeister. But before I begin discussion of these tools let me answer the question: What is a mind map?
Wikipedia says that a Mind Map is
a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central keyword and idea.
I use Mind Maps to organize my notes from meetings or to brainstorm. Which brings me to the topic at hand. While there always have been many desktop tools available for creating Mind Maps, lately we see that these offerings are moving online (largely due to advances in technology available for creating online applications).
Let’s dive right into the comparison. Below I compare the services feature by feature:
Alright, as explained earlier, here’s a list of links that I have been wanting to write about, but haven’t got a chance to. So, read on.
Here are the links for this day:
From today, I am going to start a series of postings called “Interesting Links”. I go through a lot of web sites on the Internet on a typical day and cannot write about all of them. So, for those that I cannot write about, I will start putting the links with short introductions as soon as I have 5-10 links collected.
These will typically be things which I would have liked to write about in detail if I had the time.
Earlier I had talked about a Url shortening service for NSFW sites (visit: Url Shortening Service with a twist). Well I came across another one and had to share it.
This one is called Zombie Url. Any Url’s that you shorten with this service get zombified. Great thing to do to have some fun with friends. For example, here’s what this site looks like after being zombified by this service:
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