There seems to be quite a bit of development going on in the Instant Messaging arenas on a variety of different fronts. You’ve got your individual clients that are always releasing updates. Third party clients that aggregate the individual platforms to a single interface and buddy list. Then you have the website applications that aggregate the individuals to a web page interface with no software to download.

imo.im is the latter and have provided a very simple interface to combine your IM clients onto the web. I tried it out and it does a good job of quickly connecting to your …read more

Another great online application I was reminded of while at Blog World Expo 08 is picnik. I’m should be ashamed that I haven’t shared this site for you all yet. It’s a great app that does just about everything most users would want with regards to photo-editing, while all the time being FREE!
Tris Hussey showcased this little app during his "How to be More than a Blog: New Media Integration" session.
Check-out this list of features you can take advantage of in the completely free version of picnik:

Fix your photos in just one click
Use advanced controls to fine-tune your …read more

I was just browsing the City of Greenwood, IN website to see if my softball game for tonight was canceled. It is, but while I was there I noticed an article about Greenwood City Police starting use MySpace.
The Greenwood Police Department recently joined the millions of others that use the Internet social networking site known as “MySpace”.  By creating this presence, Detective Eric Klinkowski and Chief Joe Pitcher, hope that teens will list the Greenwood PD site as their top friend on their own MySpace page.  They believe that this could act as a huge deterrent to predators seeking …read more