Friday December 02, 2005
More Web Goodness
I ran into another web application today - LookLater. This app appears to be a place where I can store a URL that I want to remember, but don't have the time at this moment to read. It comes with a little "bookmarklet" (a little functional bookmark) that sits on my Firefox toolbar. When I find something that I want to remember, I click the bookmarklet, highlight portions of the page, and then it sends it to the LookLater site.
I think there are great uses - for me - for this tool.
- For blogging - I often see something and say "hey I should blog about that", but later forget what I saw or where I saw it.
- Coding practices - I often see a coding technique or design angle that I might be able to use for something later on, but need to study it further - but forget.
- It's web based - so I can get to these things at home, rather than risking valuable work time to read it.
- It's private - not that I don't like to share, but I might read it a find that the item is not as applicable as I thought, and would remove it. This is probably why I don't bookmark as much as others. This way, when I do get around to reading the item, I can then figure out if it should be bookmarked, or blogged, or saved altogether.
I signed up pretty quickly. If you suffer from any of the bullet items above - you should too!
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is a Web Application Designer working in the suburbs of Portland Oregon.
He specializes in bringing user-centered, standards based, easy to use applications developed using Oracle web technologies.
This blog will focus on the crossover of standards based design and web application development with Oracle technology, and an occasional sprinkling of articles about his newly discovered "Entrepreneurial Spirit."
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