Fun on a Friday: Introducing Wordle

Check out Wordle, a new tool that generates beautiful word clouds (similar to “tag clouds”) from any text that you submit. The image to the left is a Wordle created from a poem I uploaded that I wrote when I was 11 years old. The shapes and colors Wordle...

Seth Godin’s Genius Ideas For the Kindle

If you’re an Amazon shopper, then you’ve probably been hit by a home page promotion for their reading device, the Kindle. It’s a bit pricey — around $400 — but full of promise. I love the idea of downloading any book I want on demand, but...

Amazon rings up shopping via text-message

Amazon has just made comparison shopping easier. Now if you’re out and about shopping in the “real” world (but really, who has time for that any more?), and find yourself wondering if you can get that same product cheaper on Amazon, all you have to...