Very insightful post full of great links and resources, please read!
Today I’m sharing five trends I’ll be watching over the coming year (and beyond) along with some thoughts about how they might change our industry. And even if I’m wrong about some of these, I’ll be interested to see where they go.
Check out this mapping tool created by the design firm Modernista! (recent Webby nominee) out of Boston for the National Park Foundation–the site is called this land is your land (now I have Woody Guthrie stuck in my head).
I like the overlay of comments used on top of the pictures used to represent the park–this is an easy way to start building a community feel around a location and makes the image feel active and alive (potential great tool for environmental groups). The site also uses the more traditional and common map views as a sidebar element with content overview of the Park.
Popular online event site Eventbrite has raised $6.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has confirmed the funding, and says Sequoia Capital is the new investor. Sequoia partner Roelof Botha joins the board of directors. Both Roelof and Sequoia backed Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz’s previous startup, Xoom
Eventbrite provides free event registration for events that are free–this is great for non-rpofits that need a low (no) budget solution for automating event registration and collecting attendee information (thank you Sequoia).
from Tech Crunch: ICANN the governing body for naming conventions on the world wide web announced that URLs will no longer be limited to Latin characters opening the way for the massive audiences in China, India and the Arabic speaking countries to claim and use URLs in native language characters. It also opens the opportunities for URL name grabbers to make a mint on claiming top level URLs in these languages–although I am not sure how that will work because ICANN has to approve each language at the Country-level first? However, it ends up working in practice I am sure someone will figre how to profit.
The proposal means domain names could be written in languages such as Greek, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi or Cyrillic and be understood natively by the servers that connect computers together over the web. Currently, domain names can only be displayed using the Latin alphabet letters A-Z, the digits 0-9 and the hyphen, but in the future countries will be able to display country-code Top Level Domains (cc TLDs) in their native language.
The organization will launch a fast-track process for approving the Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) scheme on 16 November, and the first IDN-compliant addresses should be in operation by the middle of next year, said ICANN President Rod Beckstrom.
From the statement:
It will allow nations and territories to apply for Internet extensions reflecting their name – and made up of characters from their national language. If the applications meet criteria that includes government and community support and a stability evaluation, the applicants will be approved to start accepting registrations.
I wanted to write about the following but the day job/making a living thing is winning right now–I don’t want to let you down, so here is a list of links and items you might find interesting. If you do, please comment and let me know what you think.
As I was reviewing David Gillespie’s slideshow deck titled Digital Strangelove – or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet (please click the link and take a few minutes to review–well worth it), which is an amazing slide deck discussing the Intention Economy–what the Web is going to be–check it out and enjoy!–he noted an online application called Tumblr…
So, I took a brief break and ended up on Tumblr, creating a micro blog platform in under a minute, Tony K’s into the Ether. My goal is to have the Tumblr posts feed into Tony K’s got something to Say. This site will still be primary vehicle for writing but Tumblr allows a very easy way to post my “lifestream“, shorter updates and thoughts, pics and events, it integrates to Facebook so my friends can keep up-to-date and it sends my notes to Twitter (finally, I have a way to interact with Twitter that is not a forced activity just because I work in online communications!). One thing that really struck me was the capability to upload posts via e-mail–this single item has kept me hooked since 6am. Finally, a way to get rich content from various experts within an organization without having to train or change anything they do, think about what this can do for a more robust integrated online outreach strategy…
The barrier to entry is removed, so there is nothing left but to engage and let the ideas flow.
I encourage everyone to check out Tumblr–it doesn’t constrain you like Twitter and does not make everything about the destination, like Facebook–it is yours.
Here’s your chance with GoAnimiate, it’s easy, awesome and online. I am really digging the Star Trek theme available for cartoon creation fun! I have not fully investigate the site but there is a point system that seems to allow for more functionality–the FAQs have more detail.
And for the Domo fans out there, go animate with Domo!
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