Summer TV must be slow, but I’m finding Wrecked to be strangely addictive.
Today Yahoo! launched version 2.0 of the Delicious bookmarking service: The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at. The major changes touted are improved speed, more powerful search, and a brand new UI design. They are also making “delicious.com” the primary domain (switching from the original “del.icio.us”). So far I find the UI changes pretty decent and the speed does seem better. As with many UI overhauls, there’s a bit of the “who moved my cheese?” aspect to it as I discover where everything…
From Nate’s blog, I discovered an excellent photographic news blog on Boston.com: The Big Picture: The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery – with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting. Online news sites seem to be shrinking their images (Yahoo! News had larger images…
If you’re looking for a better Yahoo! ID, or you like to collect “yourname@” on all the different web services, Yahoo! is opening up two new domains today: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Go to the new mail addresses page to get started. Read the official release on Yodel Anecdotal.
The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that CSAA (California’s branch of the AAA) is going to stop producing their own paper maps later this year: The California State Automobile Association produced its first road map in 1909. It showed major highways in California and Nevada, and was sent free to all members. Ninety-nine years later, San Francisco’s CSAA is set to produce its last paper map, another victim of the shift to digital technology. The auto club, which serves Northern California, Nevada and Utah, is phasing out its 12-person cartographic unit by year-end, the association said. Members will still be…