links for 2008-12-02

"We publish websites, resources, and reports to serve the global business information industry". All of today's links are things that I'll be talking about on the Free Pint stand at Online Information as part of the FUMSI Editors' briefing - today and tomorrow at 2:30pm

"The history of the telephone chronicles the development of electrical technology that enabled bidirectional human speech conversations over distances farther than a person could shout."

"Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

"The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts."

"Connect and share with the people in your company or organization."

"Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

"Post anything. Tumblr makes it effortless to share text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be."