Nov 082012
 

Updates: Why every startup founder needs to be a community manager | What matters most Strawberryj.am, a nice little website which let you extract links from a Twitter account or hashtag, has just been spread on its last scone…it’s not the first handy tool I’ve used to vanish, and while there’s often another one just around [...]

Sep 122011
 
Making a word cloud: Wordle

Wordle is weirdly popular. From Tracy Playle’s Wordle review: You can dump in a random selection of text to create beautiful word clouds. You can manipulate the word clouds, changing the size of words, the colours, fonts and layouts. I’ve seen these used in marketing and communications, and also seen them used regularly in reports [...]

May 312011
 
Creating a timeline: Dipity

Update, 26 April 2012: other timeline tools are available, including Danish startup Memolane, Timekiwi (see the Journalism.co.uk review) and the handily named Timeline. Lots of articles about Timeline (Mashable | Journalism.co.uk | The Event Amplifier | mashup from MASHe), which compare it to Storify, not sure why. Doesn’t have a drag n drop interface (fine by me, [...]