January 25th, 2006
by Michael Dinsmore
There’s new sites on the Internet all the time, like Writely, Zillow, Pandora and others. However, I’m sure you’ve browsed to sites that haven’t updated their content for a long, long time. Sometimes sites just go away — I’ve even let my own popular hiking website MTNHike go away after running it for a few years. However, there’s a site on the Internet whose goal is to preserve sites as they were at a moment in time. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine provides an easy way to see what a site looked like in the past. Its kind of fun to look at older sites. I enjoyed looking back at a company I helped build from the beginning – Switchboard from October 22, 1996. The Internet Archive seems to remember almost everything. If only my memory was just as good!
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December 1st, 2005
by Michael Dinsmore
I found this nifty google map of the MBTA railway system. I like how it overlays the rails and train stops over the map so you can quickyl see which stop might be a little closer to your destination.
I suppose this is just one of the many google map api examples where individuals put add metadata to the map for improved use.
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October 19th, 2005
by Michael Dinsmore
Yet another Web 2.0 tool by Flock is released as a Developer Preview for downloading to registered users. This tool leverages the social networking aspect of the interconnected Internet and eases communication channels with applications like blogs. This blog entry was made from it. It makes posting entries seem similiar to writing emails and just as easy. Will I continue to use Flock over Firefox? I don’t know, but I’ll let you know.
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