Cool Uses
I’ve been buried recently with the move to alpha7 as well as server issues, but I wanted to pause and highlight two additional cool uses for Grazr that have been brought to my attention.
First Marshall Kirkpatrick is using Grazr as a means to allow readers to continue to explore a partcular topic after reading about it in an interview. He appends a Grazr to the end of interviews he’s conducted on netsquared.org containing relevant feeds and information (examples: Leonard Lin, Stuart Weibel, and Jason Hudson). I’ve mentioned Marshall before and he continues to come up with really useful and creative applications for Grazr.
The second use is by Robin Blanford creator of CommentCasting. This is a really neat application which is using Grazr as a “media browser” to read a feed generated by user-generated phoned-in audio comments! One example is Robin’s Geared Up Blog where he’s having people in the wilderness use their mobile phone to call in and comment on the experience. Very cool. Robin has made some feature requests for Grazr and I intend to fully support him when I get through this server insanity.
One thing I plan to do is to create a user / uses highlights page on Grazr.com. There have been so many cool ideas and really creative people using Grazr that I want one location to highlight them.
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April 11th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
That’s great. One of the tests of the quality of a tool is whether or not people will use it for uses you hadn’t predicted. Congrats!
April 11th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Thanks Lisa!
It really is cool to see the different uses. Although it has less ‘wow-factor’ than Robin’s CommentCasting, I thought the teacher who proposed using Grazr as a ‘flash card’ interface to teach students vocabulary words was really awesome too.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:58 am
Having a grazr box at the end of each post, where you automatically have ego feed searches for that post.
Instead of launching to the native interface eg. Technorati link search, Bloglines citations, Icerocket link search, del.icio.us URL linkback, etc…to see who is linking to your post, you can view it within the blog post.
Or maybe have a link to Grazr, where there is an automatic pre-prepared box
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/04/09/grazr-macro/
April 12th, 2006 at 8:20 am
Cool use John! In the Beta release I’m going to have a ‘graze this’ button to allow people to create a little link ‘tic-tac’ to ‘pop out’ a feed grazr. I think it would be perfect for this particular application!
April 13th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Here are a few blog posts about using BrainStorm as the outline creator, OPML Editor for conversion to OPML, and Grazr to display the results.
http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/162
http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/169
http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/170
http://teblog.typepad.com/david_tebbutt/2006/03/over_on_thinker.html
April 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
grazr’s good,
don’t forget bittybrowser though, it’s much more powerful as it does much more than OPML