Passpack as a Start Page

As Google have announced the end of iGoogle I thought I would look for an alternative. 

I've been using Passpack to manage my passwords and it occurred to me that all the links I would want on a start page are already there.

I've marked the 'start page' links as 'favorites' and set Passpack to open to this page. So in this way I have my start page.

The benefit of this is that I only have to manage things in one place - I do everything from Passpack.  The downside is that Passpack doesn't have anything like widgets that show you a preview of what's behind each link - it's just a list of links.

Having Passpack open all the time encourages me to make sure that my usernames and passwords are all up to date. It is also convenient to star a link as a favorite and then find it on my 'start page'.

Nine Eyes

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

http://9-eyes.com/

Google Moderator

Helping the world find the best input from an audience of any size

Let your audience decide 

Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.

Everyone's voice is heard 

The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate.

Be creative 

Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organise feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.

http://www.google.com/moderator/

Google+ Ripples

The spread of a post

https://plus.google.com/ripple/details?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6ntDYjS0Y3w

gplus.to - make a short URL for Google+

http://www.gplus.to/

Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

"Google Suggest allows you to see what people are searching for. Enter a base query, and 3 options, and we'll find the overlap"

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+are+X+so&end0=men&end1=women&end2=parents

Using Google Spreadsheets Like a Database

"Create a new sheet, call it “My Queries” or something similar and in cell A1 enter the formula:

=QUERY(‘Institutional Table 2010-2011′!A1:K118,”Select A”)

What happens? Column A is pulled into the spreadsheet is what. So how does that work?

The =QUERY() formula, which has the basic form =QUERY(RANGE,DATAQUERY), allows us to run a special sort of query against the data specified in the RANGE. That is, you can think of =QUERY(RANGE,) as specifying a database; and DATAQUERY as a database query language query (sic) over that database."

http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/01/19/using-google-spreadsheets-like-a-database-the-query-formula

What do you love - from Google

http://www.wdyl.com/

http://www.wdyl.com/#Dolenni%20Diddorol

Syncdocs

"Syncdocs makes it easy to get onto the cloud:

* Copy all files and folders to Google
* Sync your all your PCs and devices
* Create, edit and share web files right from Windows

Simply select a folder on your PC, like “My Documents”.
Syncdocs copies it online and then keeps all your PCs in sync."

http://www.syncdocs.com/

How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs

" 1. Reporters and editors compose all stories in Google Docs. Using labels and native commenting, the stories get sent through the editing process.

2. When a story is ready to publish, it gets sent from Google Docs to WordPress with one click.

3. In WordPress, editors can publish the story to the web, then set up a print headline and print subhead.

4. The story then appears in inDesign, where print designers can lay out the print newspaper."

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/how-to-run-a-news-site-and-newspaper-using-wordpress-and-google-docs_b4781

iMapFlickr

"Create custom Google Maps from your geotagged Flickr Photos to embed in your website or blog, or for sending to Facebook, Twitter or your favourite website. Its quick, non-technical and free."

http://imapflickr.com/

"Its simple, we create a google map of your geotagged photosets or photostream search in Flickr. Providing you have used the Flickr map tool to position your photographs, you can create a customisable map you can share or embed in your own website - without having to do any of that complicated coding stuff"

I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With Google Docs

"If you think Google Docs is too barebones, especially for presentations, take a look at the video above. The animation was created by Tu+, Namroc, and Metcalf Anything using only Google Docs."

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/05/google-docs/

Google Scribe

"Google Scribe helps you write better documents. Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe's text completion service provides related word or phrase completion suggestions. It also checks your documents for incorrect phrases, punctuations, and other errors like misspellings. In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe's suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use."

http://scribe.googlelabs.com/


http://scribe.googlelabs.com/static/help.html?v=7

Google Ngram Viewer

"When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books"

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

Google Moderator - Helping the world find the best input from an audience of any size.

*Let your audience decide
Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.

http://www.google.com/moderator/

Google URL Shortener - lots of great features

"If you are logged into your Google account, it will keep a record of the pages you have shortened, the original URL, and even how many times someone has clicked on that shortened URL. This is a great way to track URL's that you are sharing and seeing how many people click on them."

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-url-shortener-lots-of-great.html


http://goo.gl/

Google Squared - search results in organized collection

"Google Squared is a very interesting way to search the internet. Google Squared is from Google Labs and was just released. Google describes Google Squared as an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection similar to a spreadsheet."

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-squared-search-results-in.html


http://www.google.com/squared

Make Your Google+ URL shorter

"Navigate your browser to gplus.to and type in the user name or ‘nick’ you wish to go by then add your G+ ID number and hit create. To find your Google+ ID number simply click on your ‘profile’ circle at the top of your account."

http://androidspin.com/2011/07/13/howto-make-your-google-url-shorter-and-easy-to-share/

How to Migrate from Facebook to Google+

"If you have a lot of time and information invested in Facebook, it’s not easy moving to a new social network. Here are a few tips on moving your information from your Facebook account to your shiny new Google+ account.

Moving social networks isn’t the easiest thing to do, but luckily there are a few tools we can use to migrate pictures, videos, and friends. Wall posts and messages don’t make sense to migrate between networks so we are going to leave those out."

http://www.howtogeek.com/67766/how-to-migrate-from-facebook-to-google/

Google Plus is Not Your Blog

"No matter what, no matter how much more engagement you get on a place like Google+, it is not your “home base.” It’s your “outpost.” That means, it’s a place where you can go to have interactions with people, on “neutral ground,” and that in the course of those interactions, should someone want to know more about you, learn more about what you do, understand how you might interact further, that’s when they will move from your outpost property on Google+ over to your home base on your website or blog. "

"Put the most VALUE at your home base (blog) and spend the most TIME at the outposts (networks like Google+)."

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/google-plus-is-not-your-blog/