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Yahoo! Pipes….
Yahoo! Pipes is a service that lets you combine different web feeds to create your own personal aggregate. You pipe data in, then mash it up…the result is a single rss feed that you created with a few clicks – no programming knowledge required. From their overview page: Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code. For example, YouTunes is a pipe which links the top 10 songs from... [read more]
New Web Developer Toolbar
Many of you know and love the web development toolbar, a handy tool for web producers to make sure their code is up to par with MIT’s Web Publishing Guidelines. There is a new release available (v1.1.3) on the chrispederik.com website (http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/.) The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. I’ve found this tool to be invaluable when checking... [read more]
Cool video: Web 2.0 explained
Check out this cool video explaining Web 2.0 created by Michael Wesch, assistant Cultural Anthropology Professor at Kansas State Usability. As explained by BoingBoing: “[Professor Wesch] has strung together a bunch of animations, text, and screenshots in order to tell the story of “Web 2.0″ — and why it matters, and how it’s changing the world. This is as starry-eyed as techno-optimism gets, and it might just choke you up a little, if you care about this stuff.” UPDATE – An interesting description of the video’s viral power: origins and how it became... [read more]
Email Marketing
The January 2007 WebPub meeting focused on email marketing. Some basic tips from the group included the following: Be wary of vendors who want control over your email address database. You should be the ones to send out the email, not them; Try using mailman as an option for sending out email newsletters. The configuration can be tricky, so work with the IS&T Accounts team to set it up (web.mit.edu/ist/accounts); Put your policy statement and physical address at the bottom of your email; Make sure you give the receiver the option to unsubscribe from your email list; include your style... [read more]
Webpub is the new blog
Hey gang… Let’s use this blog to host content from our bimonthly meetings and to share information pertinent to the web community. This blog works with MIT certificates. Any community member with an MIT certificate can post comments. If anyone has information to post, email it to webpub@mit.edu and I’ll make sure it gets on the blog. Many thanks to the IS&T DCAD crew for setting up and hosting our blog! peace… [read more]
