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Wordle

May 12, 2009 – 12:15 pm

A couple of months ago, I came across Wordle, a word cloud generator. Word clouds create images using words (profound, I know). The larger the word indicates the more times it has been used throughout a particular area of text.
Wordle has a variety of options that allow for the creation of beautiful, unique word clouds. [...]

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10 URL Shortners on the 10th

May 10, 2009 – 10:50 pm

Last Wednesday, ReadWriteWeb posted that bit.ly was the most used URL shortening service used on Twitter.
What does this mean? Heck, what’s the purpose of a URL shortening service?
The advent of Twitter gave rise to new services to make the platform more usable. For example, Twitter’s 140 character updates leave little room to communicate long messages.
Thus, [...]

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