Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Two amazing Web2OH apps

I have had the fortune to be introduced to two Web 2 Oh apps that have really inspired me.

The first is Wordle. Love it, love it, love it! Create word clouds on any text you copy and paste into the Wordle text box. Then use the other tools to arrange, rearrange, color, and change fonts. Very interesting what word clouds look like of particular passages. There's also a gallery where you can publish you Wordle creation and view those of others submitted to the gallery. In fact, here's a Wordle based on the text of this post:



And the other cool tool is JOTT. Use your phone to call JOTT (a toll-free phone number) and have it transcribe your voice into text. You can add various phone numbers so you can call from different phones. I still have to try it from my Tracfone, which sometimes gets a bad signal while in the car (I am not in traffic when I do this of course). JOTT has all sorts of potential uses. Memos, notes, thoughts, contacts, etc. Lots of stuff to try!

Are we having fun or what?!?!!?