Saturday, December 23, 2006

Blogging from Italian Born Chinese Face Transformer. I discovered this cool web program thanks to Sacos. I tried it with a photo of Becky, this is the original: And this is the best transformation of them all: Click on image for more transformations. Ho scoperto questo sito grazie a Sacos. Ho provato con una foto di Becky, queta e[base '] l[base ']originale: E questa e[base '] la migliore trasformazione: Clicca la foto per vedere le altre trasformazioni. Tag: photophoto [Italian Born Chinese] 8:02:12 PM

RSS: Bringing It All Back Home Bringing It All Back Home - RSS and Bookmark Services Behind the Firewall. The Burton Group's Mike Gotta provides a sound perspective on why a managed RSS solution makes sense for organizations compared to the unstructured use of online syndication and tagging services. It boils down to this - efficiency, security, risk, confidentiality and insight. Mike says it all here: "While there are clearly a lot of benefits to social software tools and new technologies such as XML syndication (RSS), due diligence is required from the perspective of security, risk, audit competitive intelligence and overall confidentiality. Some level of purposeful transparency is often perfectly acceptable and is actually a good practice in many situations. But being ignorant to how transparent you are as an enterprise can have consequences (e.g., a public relations nightmare, or serious breach of security) and that can be true if you are not paying attention to these emerging technologies and use of consumer services within your organization." The Attensa Feed Server connected with Attensa for Outlook creates a managed environment that provides: Administrative control over subscriptions A locked down RSS reader that works in Microsoft Outlook Reporting and analytics that provide insights into the feeds being read and tagged Technorati tags: Attensa, enterprise 2.0, enterprise RSS, tagging, RSS readers, RSS server, feed server [Attensa] 12:31:42 PM

Transformers Trailer NEW Transformers Trailer!. Oh My GOD! This movie is going to be so good... (I hope). Click the link below to check out a full-length trailer for the new live action film, Transformers. It's hitting theaters in July and well, lets just say millions of grown up men will be acting like screaming little kids when they see their childhood dreams realized on the big screen. Considering that I just yelled out to myself "NO WAY, YES!" when I saw Optimus Prime transform in this trailer, I'll be one of 'em. Transformers Trailer [The Tripwire] 12:20:07 PM

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RSS in Law Firms Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms...or any business doing marketing and research. I just found this great list of RSS applications on Steve Matthews' Vancouver Law Librarian Blog. It's focused on applications for law firms but, if you just change the word lawyer to "co-worker" and change the word client to "customer", these apps will work for any business. 1) Current Awareness - Surfing your favourite websites, newspapers & blogs is a waste of time. Smart firms & lawyers need to automate web content to come to them via RSS. These personalized collections can then be customized (through mixing and filtering) to only deliver the content that matches a lawyers' interests. 2) RSS for Firm Marketing - From blogs, to press releases, to firm newsletters and publications -- adding an additional delivery channel using RSS feeds is not a huge investment. And speaking from experience, those clients that do use it, will tell you how much they love it! 3) Vanity Feeds - Every time one of your lawyers, or the firm, gets mentioned in the news media or blogosphere, someone should be notified by RSS. Your firm's ability to use RSS could be the difference between finding out immediately or days later. 4) Internal Research Collections - Your library catalogue should offer an RSS feed for newly added materials that match your Lawyer's research interests. Same thing goes for internal KM & research collections. In the future, I expect Internal RSS will be as important to law firms as RSS is to bloggers today. 5) Client Press - Do your clients have their press releases RSS-enabled? Are you tracking your clients in the news media? What do you know about their latest products, disputes, and business initiatives? Knowing more about your client's business is always good for firm business. 6) Feeding on Marketing Content for KM - Do your firm members have blogs? contribute to an industry discussion forum? wikis? Are you feeding those public internet contributions back into your internal KM repositories? Something to think about. 7) Case Law & Legislative Changes - The importance of RSS notification for new & changing legislation cannot be underestimated. Nor can receiving the newest judgement just minutes after it has been published on a Court's website. In the future, searches on those websites will, via RSS, enable us to receive exactly the legislation and topical cases we desire. I also expect these applications may be coming sooner than most firms are anticipating. 8) Aggregated Tagging - Do your lawyers tag with a tool like Del.icio.us or Furl? (If they don't now, they might in the future, read on...) Tagging is the new 'favourites' or 'bookmarking' for online reading. Rather than creating a browser-based bookmark, these 'gems' are classified & kept in an online web collection, which just happens to be RSS-enabled! Does it not make sense to take those feeds, from multiple firm members, and aggregate them behind the firewall into a searchable repository? The line between public web-vs-behind the firewall collections is blurring. In the future, your KM efforts should be capturing firm members' public web contributions, and RSS technology will be right in the middle of that. 9) RSS Republishing - RSS helps to move web content to where it needs to be. We can automate the republication of any firm content -- from story headlines to full-text of publications -- to anywhere on a law firm's Intranet or public website. RSS is a very powerful website maintenance tool. 10) Feed Mixing & Filtering for Subject Collections - RSS should be easy for the end user, and starting from scratch building a personal feed collection doesn't always make sense. One new task I see for Law Librarians will be to create, remix and filter groups of feeds for different subjects. Creating & offering these pre-fab feed widgets that your lawyers can plug into their Aggregator could be a very valuable tool. Attensa for Outlook can handle all of these applications - no problem. Persistent search, integrated tagging (that syncs with Del.icio.us, flexible feed and article organization tools are all built-in. Oh, and it's a free download. Technorati tags: Attensa, RSS applications, law firm technology, RSS readers [Attensa] 11:57:36 AM

Greg Laswell Download - Greg Laswell "Little Drummer Boy". One of our new favorites in 2006, San Diego-based singer/songwriter Greg Laswell has posted a little treat on his MySpace page for the holidays - a hymn-like version of the Christmas classic "Little Drummer Boy." You can download it below. Thanks Greg! "Little Drummer Boy" MP3 Greg Laswell MySpace [The Tripwire] 11:46:53 AM

FluidMetalCosmogenicHeroes Silver Surfer rides the screen. First look at the Silver Surfer from the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, via USA Today With computer-generated imagery techniques similar to those used to create Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, the slippery Surfer, voiced by Doug Jones, "will look somewhere between gun metal and fluid metallics so you can see the body motion, the breathing, the muscle tone, the mood," says Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad. The Surfer's mood is key to the story. After striking a deal with the evil Galactus to save his planet, the once-human Surfer wreaks havoc throughout the cosmos. "He is a highly emotional being, trapped inside fluid metal," Arad says. [THE BEAT] 10:03:31 AM

wonderlust at paper-doll Wonderlust Sweaters at Paperdoll. The Canadian streetwear scene was one of the major inspirations for us launching Grooveeffect, and here's another example why. Just look at these sweaters by Wonderlust, designed by Hannah Tikkanen of British Columbia. The plaid, faux-fur trimmed hoodies are just gorgeous...especially the pink! And we're not normally fans of women's hoodies, but the one pictured is really cute, and it's 10% spandex so it'll contour your figure better than any babydoll hoodie can ever hope to. Check them out at Paperdoll's Wonderlust store. ... This article is from our RSS feed - read the full version at: - Wonderlust Sweaters at Paperdoll Grooveeffect.com [Grooveeffect - An Urban Style, Music, and Events Guide] 9:37:22 AM