Tech Thursday - Sketching Photos, Hacking the big apple, Twitter in Powerpint and a web identity scanner (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

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YDN YDN Blog Tech Thursday - Sketching Photos, Hacking the big apple, Twitter in Powerpint and a web identity scanner

Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

October 8, 2009

Tech Thursday - Sketching Photos, Hacking the big apple, Twitter in Powerpint and a web identity scanner

Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. This time this is posted live from Paris Web - may the wireless stay with me.

Most of the YDN folks are already in NYC for the Yahoo Open Hack NYC 2009, so if you are on the east coast, drop by!
PhotoSketch is an amazing tool to sketch a scene and stitch it together from pictures on the internets (also check the gallery).
Remy Sharp has a nice interactive jQuery documentation.
Good trick on how to compress Keynote presentations.
A video of Matt Cutts explaining why pages can still be indexed by Google despite being defined as not indexable in robots.txt
NYCBigApps is an application challenge to make New York City more transparent, accessible, and accountable.
SAP released a tool to integrate Twitter into Powerpoint to show tweets from the audience live in your slides. This can get very embarassing.
Glims is a Safari add-on that makes Safari be more like Firefox - great for people who want to switch.
IdentEngine is a very clever application that shows you all your identities on the social web - powered by microformats and YQL.
ABTests is a repository for results of A/B usability tests of web sites.