by Chris Snider | Sep 17, 2008 | Digital ideas, Digital tools
Last night, this blog went mobile. And it only took about five minutes to set up (I even threw in an iPhone version for good measure). I already had an account with Mofuse, a free service that lets you create mobile sites using RSS feeds and manual links. You...
by Chris Snider | Sep 16, 2008 | Digital ideas
Paltalk is a web site that offers instant messaging, group video calls and chat rooms – all for free. How do I know this? Certainly not because I was searching for a solution to my instant messaging and group video needs. I know because I received this video via...
by Chris Snider | Sep 14, 2008 | Digital tools
Animoto is a great little service that takes photos, adds the music of your choice, and turns them into a music video. Here’s the company’s 50-word description: Animoto is a web application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and...
by Chris Snider | Sep 12, 2008 | Digital ideas
One huge advantage newspapers have over all of the competition is the quality of our photographs. So how do we take better advantage of that? Obviously producing daily or weekly or monthly “best-of” photo galleries makes sense. But here’s another idea: Tap into our...
by Chris Snider | Sep 12, 2008 | Digital tools
Earlier this year, we started doing live chats with sports columnist Sean Keeler in the forums at DesMoinesRegister.com. It got the job done, but it had some downside. The interface was slow, and you couldn’t really organize the conversation – new questions would roll...
