Category Archive for Web 2.0 Sites

RSS Mixer featured in Mashable

Mashable! (the #13 ranked blog in the world, according to Technorati) has just written a very positive article about RSS Mixer. Our launch last week competed with Google’s Chrome release, so it has taken a while for the story to get out there. (The lesson here is never release anything when Google has got something new to share.) In the article, the writer, Doriano “Paisano” Carta, goes through many of RSS Mixer’s features including; widget output, OPML support, and the Firefox Add-on. After all the…

Using TwitterFeed to Update Twitter

If you have a Twitter account, you probably already have blog, a Facebook page, a Flickr account, a YouTube account along with other points of presence on the Web. For many of our museum clients, managing this extended presence with limited resources is a constant challenge. So anything that comes along that makes this process easier is of great interest. This week we created a Twitter site for RSS Mixer. I wanted to find a way to help keep this Twitter site up-to-date…

RSS Mixer Alpha now live!

The RSS Mixer site is now available! The new alpha release has a ton of new features, a new database structure, and it is running on our own custom-built, dedicated servers. Here’s a brief description of the site from our press release… RSS Mixer (www.rssmixer.com) is a free service that allows visitors to efficiently mix multiple Web feeds into one. The mixed feed is then viewable as a new…

Free or nearly free ways museums can use Web 2.0

An article that I wrote for the July/August issue of the Association of Science-Technology Center’s Dimensions magazine is now available online.  Appropriately for these economic times, the issue focuses on ways in which science centers can save money and do more with less. The article,  Nine Free or Nearly Free Ways Museums Can Take Advantage of Web 2.0 covers a variety of Web-based services and touches on some of the open source initiatives that are now available to museums. I also list a number…

100,000 Posts on Museum Blogs

Back in May of 2006, we launched Museum Blogs (www.museumblogs.org) as an experimental site and to “help increase the community’s awareness and authority.” By authority we meant search rankings and Technorati ranking in particular. By aggregating all of the collective feeds the site has created additional links to all the museum blogs in the directory. When the site launched there were only around 50 museum blogs and now two years later there are nearly 300 in listed in…

KQED QUEST’s Next Step

A new and improved version of  KQED’s QUEST Website, which we helped to develop, is now live. QUEST is an ambitious project utilizing all of KQED’s platforms to not only broadcast science and nature programming, but to also build a community supporting further exploration in the area. Ideum worked with KQED to design a website promoting community participation via an interactive mashup-driven website. The most recent version of QUEST includes a number of improvements intended to simplify the navigation of the site’s ever-expanding…

RSS Mixer Alpha to Launch in February

Last July, we posted a prototype Web application, RSS Mixer that allowed anonymous visitors to mix RSS (and Atom) feeds together. Back then the page got a lot of notice. There was a blog post from Mashable, one from CNET’s Webware, a brief article in Brazil’s largest newspaper, and literally hundreds of other links from all over the world. The prototype site continues to get traffic and it will surpass 5,000 user-generated mixes and added 10,000 feeds any day now. Next…

350+ Social Networking sites

Mashable – the Social Networking News blog has put together an exhaustive list of 350+ social networking sites that it has covered over the last few years. As you can imagine, there is a site for just about every possible social activity and niche group — from microblogging to hip hop fans. While the list is overwhelming, it is fascinating to read the descriptions. And of course, the Web 2.0 names, such as Pazap, Lawyrs, Genoom, Fotki, Kinzin, Minti, and XuGa, provide some entertainment…