New Plazes badge

August 9 2006

The Plazes team contacted me this morning about their new-and-improved embedded site badge.  The Plazes website provides the wizard for building your own customized badge, and it only took me a few minutes to set it up.  I simply cut and paste the code from their site into a "block" in the DominoBlog site design, and voila!  The new version is live.  Remember, I'm not an app developer nor UI designer, but the Dominoblog template really makes it easy to make such customizations.  The other day, John Head added some other 'portals' to his site -- check out the OpenNTF and TakingNotes blocks on johndavidhead.com's lefthand column.

Thanks to the Plazes team for being incredibly repsonsive -- they made a change to the embedded code within minutes based on a query from me.  The new embedded code not only has a click-through to see more detail about the current (or last-seen) location, but also has the ability from a single click to replay past locations.  Very fun.  Chris Miller is all over this, too.

Does anyone else think that the map rendering makes the Great Lakes look like Jessica Rabbit in profile?
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Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Blogging  Add/View Comments [21]

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  1. 1  David DeWell http://workdomosphere.blogspot.com | 8/9/2006 12:28:15 PM

    Ed - Why does it look like you live in the middle of a lake?

  1. 2  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/9/2006 12:30:02 PM

    yeah, there are eight different color schemes available...maybe I should try the black or something. but I do live in a blue state :-)

  1. 3  Duffbert http://www.twduff.com | 8/9/2006 1:30:21 PM

    Ed, Ed, Ed... methinks you need to get out more often...

  1. 4  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 8/9/2006 1:31:28 PM

    Ok, now I am scared. You actually had the image of Jessica Rabbit fresh enough in your mind to make this association?:-)

  1. 5  Wild Bill Buchan http://www.billbuchan.com | 8/9/2006 1:42:47 PM

    You know the scary thing is that Jessica Rabbit is at the top of "my list"...

    :-)

    Ed. You need a holiday. Somewhere cold, and somewhere without your laptop. Somewhere where you can get a hobby - such as learning how to drink proper beer..

    ---* Bill

  1. 6  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/9/2006 2:04:56 PM

    @3 @4 @5 - Appreciate the concern, none needed. :)

  1. 7  Gerco Wolfswinkel http://www.domino-weblog.nl | 8/9/2006 2:26:35 PM

    The OpenNTF portlet on John Head's site is actually created by Vince Schuurman. I'm using thema as well, nice addition to the site!

  1. 8  John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 8/9/2006 3:33:45 PM

    Yes, I did not write them ... Vince did after he and I were brainstroming some ideas on how to promote OpenNTF.org and this was the first of many :)

  1. 9  Simon Barratt http://apps.fmc.com/blog.nsf | 8/9/2006 3:38:28 PM

    Hey Ed, you are slacking!

    I had this updated days ago, with a nicer (IMO) colour!!

    { Link }

  1. 10  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/9/2006 3:55:15 PM

    @9 well, I don't really like any of the colour schemes available at the moment, this was the closest to tolerable imho. to each their own :-)

  1. 11  Karl-Henry Martinsson  | 8/9/2006 6:06:34 PM

    @5: Perhaps he need a vacation here? :-)

    { Link }

    (Google Earth needed)

  1. 12  Dick  | 8/10/2006 7:08:02 AM

    Where does FileNet fit ?

  1. 13  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/10/2006 7:14:02 AM

    @12 pretty off-topic, isn't it? Also since the news is all of 15 minutes old, you'll forgive me that I don't have an extensive answer for you. The deal isn't even closed, right?

    Steve Mills tells IBMers: " Once this deal closes, which is expected to happen in the fourth quarter of 2006, FileNet and IBM’s content management businesses will be combined into a single business as part of our Information Management unit".

    So what did you think of Plazes and Jessica Rabbit?

  1. 14  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/10/2006 8:31:37 AM

    @11 ah, but i always go there! That looks like The Turtle standing on top of the Dolphin's roof, guess he figured out a new way to get access...

  1. 15  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 8/10/2006 9:05:51 AM

    Ed doesn't need a holiday...just look at where's he's been recently ;O)

    /sings Duran Duran

  1. 16  Simon Barratt http://apps.fmc.com/blog.nsf | 8/10/2006 9:06:56 AM

    So Ed, you have a little soft spot for rabbits?

    Are you just pleased to see Jessica, or is that a blog in your pocket? ;-)

  1. 17  Rob Wunderlich http://www.dominounplugged.com | 8/10/2006 9:43:04 AM

    I particularly like the "show recent" link ... that way, we can keep track of your travels visually ...

  1. 18  Bruce Elgort http://www.TakingNotesPodcast.com | 8/10/2006 10:24:59 AM

    @14, that would be Nathan :-)

  1. 19  Devin Olson http://www.devinolson.net | 8/10/2006 10:39:58 AM

    @5, That's not scary at all. Now, if you had Roger Rabbit on your list, then I'd be worried. ;->

  1. 20  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 8/10/2006 12:21:07 PM

    @19 - Never assume anything about a Scot!:-)

  1. 21  Turtle http://www.weightlessdog.com/shell.nsf | 8/14/2006 2:52:36 PM

    About a what?

    Plazes... the new Rorschach test?

    Turtle