links for 2009-12-07

Now that's a real high tech concert. A bunch of interesting videos.

Or is it? Either way, the philosophy is pretty simple:
'No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To that end, we make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as www.domain.com.'

'What if every store had a bar-code sticker on its window so that you could pull out your iPhone, wave it in front of the bar code and get all sorts of information about that business—the telephone number, photos, customer reviews? Starting on Monday, you'll be able to do that at up to 190,000 local businesses throughout the U.S.
Google has mailed out window stickers with two-dimensional bar codes (aka, QR codes) to the most-searched for or clicked-on businesses in its local business directory.'

A very innovative & visual way to represent one's history.

'Some design professionals expect their portfolio to serve as a "visual resume." But portfolio images are typically just work samples, unless dated and laid out chronologically. What I want to know, is if depicting your work history graphically is effective at getting the attention of the right people, or if they are just novelties meant to amuse graphic-inclined folks like me who find them interesting to study. I assume the traditional resume would also be required, but I'm not sure if that's correct, if you can fit the dates and companies to depict your work history inside the visual presentation.'

Incidentally developed by an IBMer whose blog & other works I've gone through during my stint with IBM. It's based on Java appets though.
'Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.'

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Too bad it's not connected to LinkedIn to pull out the recommendations

Of course those who're not fluent in Klingon will not be able to understand what they tweeted… That's where the "to english" translator comes in handy.