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I’m testing that right now. This post is written with google docs & spreadsheets.If this works ok, we’ve another piece that can be loosely joined…

Will it work with images:

wordpress edit: it was not only written but also published using google docs. The posting did work allthough the title was not displayed… to use google docs & spreadsheets as a blogging tool it’ll need something extra i think

But i have to say that it has very nice features, like publishing your document on the web If google adds some wiki-features to this baby then they got them selfs a very interesting collaborative tool!!

I’m glad i skipped plasma, now i can step right into this new thing called Laser TV!

Ideas are build on top of each other:

Dan shows us how in Firefox you can open a boormarked site in a sidebar. The Eirepreneur gets inspired and with this newly acquired wisdom he creates a browser based collaborative writing environment!

mmm, but how did he get 3 frames in there? The third frame that you see at the bottom of the page is actually a firefox add-on called ‘Performancing’ which is actually a full feautured blog editor that sits right (at the bottom) within firefox!

wouldn’t it be cool if firefox would feature a ‘open in left-sidebar, right-sidebar, bottom-sidebar’ option? That way you could open your own brand of choice blog editor (wordpress in frame nr 3 (or 4).

Anyway, James shows us how small pieces can be loosely joined: firefox +  performancing + grazr + opml + rss + typepad make a  full featured  browser based collaborative writing environment. How cool is that!

If you want a cool polaroid picture like this one? Go check out Polaroid-o-nizer!

Just enter the url of the image you want to polaroid-o-nized, specify the angle and thats it!

Right-click the result and save as….

For all the firefox-using-php-programmers out there: the PHP Lookup extension

It ads a little search form in your toolbar with which you can fast search the function list on php.net

BTW, I just installed firefix 2.0 and links with target _blank open in a new tab!

i just watched this great lecture by Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He’ll teach you something about the world you did not know yet and more important show you how data can become accessible by using advanced charting. If your an ajax/dhtml programmer in need of a challenge…

 More info on this subject: http://www.gapminder.org/index.html

I watched the interview Robert Scoble did with Joe Kraus, CEO and founder of jotspot.com and decided to take jotspot for a testdrive.

It’s very easy to set up an account, you only need to supply them with a username and password and an e-mailaddress and of you are. No need to confirm anything through e-mail. You’ll have a free account up and running within 30 secs.

 You start of with your wiki homepage and you can edit it using a pretty basic wysiwyg editor that has all the features most users will ever need. Some simple text-formating tools, linking to other wikipages, files, webpages, a button for creating new wiki pages, allthough CamelCasing also still works, and of course images.

It looks real nice and intuitive, has some ajax/dhtml feautures build in to make it a even a better experience.

Since jotspot is a wiki, sharing and collaborating are build in feautures. You can easily add users by inviting them: just click on invite, a textbox where you can add the new users emailaddress appears, and with one click they’ll get an invitation by email. In the e-mail the invitee receives is a url, by clicking it the new users is asked to type in a new password, and voila, the new user is redirected to the homepage and ready to go. A community in two minutes

These are no earthshocking things for a wiki, but they all seem to work very easy, intuitive, and are usable by non-tech users, it think.

The extra features is what make jotspot cool i think. Default jotspot comes with 4 ‘applications’ installed:

- calendars: you can create multiple calendars and create events

- File Cabinets: create file cabinets and upload your files into them

- photo pages: Create photo albums und upload your pictures into them (if you click a thumbnail it show the big picture and all the camera details like camera type, shutterspeed etc.)

- spreadsheets: You can start with a blank sheet or copy/paste from your desktopspreadsheet! Allthough it only has half the functionality quatro pro did in 1988 it needs a programmer with a javascript university degree to build such a fancy app in a browser!!

Besides these 4 applications you can install many more, like: project manager, bug reporter, knowledge base, to-do lists, blog, forum, etc. It makes the product really extendable.

When you app is not in the list then you can make a request, and if the jotspot team likes your idea they will build it and add it.

I’ve only been playing arround with jotspot for a small hour so probably i’ve missed half the functionality thats in there. But what i’ve seen is really impressive, and i can recommend you to take a look.

The free account does come with some advertising, but nothing interuptive. You get ten pages and a maximum of 5 users. Enough to test it. If you would want to use it more seriously you’ll have to upgrade your account which starts from 9,99 p/m.

If you want endless pages for nothing and something a bit more nerdy please take a look at SDI. I’ve been using that for some time, and really like it. Specially because of the name which stands for Smart Disorganized Individual

Blogtalk keynote speach by Mat Mullenweg: Wordpress and Jazz