Guided tour through the Capital District A strong visual is helpful in connecting with participants. A recent Facebook post was my inspiration for preparing this guide. The poster mentioned his desire to assist nonprofits with their marketing once...
Go on a Tulip Tree tour of New York with Canopy, courtesy of the Open Data Project. Upload it to infographic sites like Visual.ly. The New York City Open Data Project kicked off in 2010 and enshrined into law by Mayor Bloomberg in 2012, the effort...
Restaurants can entice customers with daily specials, sports teams can highlight loyal fans, musicians can captivate fans with behind-the-scenes images of the band on tour, and attendees of a conference can upload images of speakers, colleagues...
Google is making use of its virtual tour abilities in Maps to provide Oscar fans with a walk through of the Kodak Theatre where the event is held and 3D models of "the Red Carpet, Hollywood and Highland Center, and the Kodak Theatre.
Quick Tour Bing Movies brings visual search, customer reviews, in-line movie trailers, highlight videos, one-click ticket purchasing, as well as mapping, traffic, local listings and "even local parking lot locations.
The social revolution at Google continues. You can now create lists of your Google Bookmarks. Just go to google.com/bookmarks and when you've received the update, you'll get a notification prompt: Click the boxes next to the bookmarks and then use...
Here's a visual tour of how to access the WWT app: Explore space from your laptop. Even the most amateur of astronomers would tell you that the best way to view the night sky is outdoors. But if you live in a city with too much light pollution or...
Here's a visual tour of how to set it up. Building on the location-sharing frenzy, a cool app for your site. Bing Maps has a Twitter application and now you can embed it on your website. Go to Bing.com/maps
Get a visual tour of the app through this video: Use the phone's camera to get product information. The new app is appropriately named "Shopper. Take a picture of the item you're interested in (with your phone's camera, of course) and Shopper will...
For a visual tour of Google's new social search effort, check out this vid: Last year, Google unveiled its Social Search and launched into Labs. The idea is that you would see blog posts and other content from your social network in your search...
Here's a visual tour of what to expect. LinkedIn updated their iPhone app this week. The homepage features icons that enable users to easily navigate the app: One of the coolest things you can do is find people near you on LinkedIn.
Here's a video Google put together to provide a visual tour of Speed Tracer. The new tool is a Chrome extension. You may remember Chrome extensions were launched into Beta yesterday - but they're not yet available for Mac users.
Google has put together a handy video giving a visual tour of Living Stories. In the movie Notting Hill, Julia Roberts plays a celebrity who falls in love with a non-celebrity, played by Hugh Grant. When the press finds out, she's devastated...
Bing.com/Twitter is live. Here's how it looks. The "Hot Topics" tag cloud is at the top of the page, beneath the search box. And here were the trending topics on Twitter at the time of the screenshot above.
Yahoo not buying Google when they were a small technology company helping to power Yahoo search -- wow, has that come full circle) and they watched as Facebook aggressively opened up their platform to non-college students and allowed programmers...
Wilder, there were sites on the author’s home and museum as well as a tour of the town she had lived in during the 1880s. Visual Appeal to a Child The categories ranked include: (1) visual appeal to a child; (2) relevance to a child, based on our...
Take a tour This visual cue lets searchers know they have the option of using Google Checkout if they click through and buy from that advertiser. Rumors have been flying for more than a year about a payment system under development by Google.
Another category, "tour dates," has links to four sites, with Yahoo rankings of 1, 75, 100 and 125 all clustered together, making it easy to check out each page without any scrolling through search results at all.
Another cool view of the permanent collection is offered by the Kaleidoscope feature, which organizes your virtual tour by visual themes. The Louvre's web site has long been a treasure trove for art lovers, but the site's recent relaunch has moved...
Next, a "tour through Robot Village," looking at the crawlers, spiders and other critters that traverse the web, discovering information and bringing it back to the search engines for indexing. These days, Tim is the CTO of Antarcti.ca, best known...
