Microsoft Live Popfly and other great internet treasures.
Well I’d have to say this is different. Microsoft seems to be going after the non-tech people. Well I mean they usually try to do that. But anyways, I’ve just been toying with a few different things over the past few days. Microsoft Popfly is the fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It’s made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users. I read about this in InformationWeek magazine which you all can receive a free copy to your door if you would like, just visit http://www.informationweek.com/ and you can Subscribe there. Nice articles, and its free. Anyways, popfly is kind of hard to explain as I haven’t had much time to look at it really, just played with it for a few minutes, seems like it could be helpful for newbies to the internet and website making, I’m not sure its full capacity really, just reading it SAYS it can do the following:
- Add some fun to your Facebook page, web site, or Windows Live Spaces page.
- Build a home page.
- Mix and re-mix photos and videos.
- Unify your online personality.
So I’m not sure, just thought I’d make a comment or two about it, it has tutorials and things to get more into it and understand the thing, I just didn’t really have time to experience all it claims to offer. So if YOU’RE interested, visit http://www.popfly.ms/.
EDIT: The phone number just spam’s all the numbers you have registered.
Also, when I was attending the Lan from the previous post, Bart sent out invites to a service provided by Google called GrandCentral. (Don’t ask him for invites, he used his last 2 on people that attended the lan!) Anyways, GrandCentral is great, it could be useful in MANY situations. You first pick a local area number (for me it was an 801 – duh) and then you add your numbers…like cell, work, home, whatever, from there, you setup your voicemail box they give you, and you give out your new number. People call that number and it rings each phone until there is an answer, so it would on mine, ring my work phone, then my cell phone, (not sure if you can edit the order it rings them) but if I don’t answer my work phone, then it will send it to my cell phone, which if I don’t answer will then send it to an online voicemail, this “online” voicemail is amazing, you can send the voicemails to your email, someone else’s email, listen to them right in the inbox, link them to places, and many more things. OK so hypothetically lets say Jack calls my GrandCentral number, it rings my cell, I don’t answer, then rings my work phone, I answer here. I will hear a prompt in my handset that will first:
1) Tell me who is calling (they are asked to say their name before the call is connected)
2) Give me the option to accept the call.
3) Give me the option to accept AND RECORD the call.
4) Give me the option to ignore the call and send it to voicemail.
You can also change the ringback tones of the call. So say I live in Europe, I can set my ringback tone (the one the caller hears) to hear a tone similar to the international tone for that country. Pretty neat there in my opinion. Also, with GrandCentral it integrates nicely with Gmail and adds all your contacts from your gmail. Just an all around great service, as of now, its in the “Beta” stage. But it will be rolling out nicely here soon i think. To find out more please visit http://www.grandcentral.com
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