Early this morning we made the first public release of good2gether, the nonprofit aggregator that my firm Virosity has been working on for almost a year.
dogoodchannel.com is the house-branded version of the site which will launch soon as a new feature of newspaper websites across the country, starting in Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Houston.
If you’re involved with a nonprofit, get them signed up for good2gether and we will push their events, volunteer needs, and other content in front of the biggest web audiences in their local markets.
Thanks to the Virosity Core Team (Jon and Bill), Colin, who helped keep the train on the rails down the stretch, Paul and Jon, who made it look pretty, and everyone at betahouse.
I’m taking a few recovery days, and then back to looking for more cool projects.
When I couldn’t get Skitch to take full-scroll browser screenshots, I asked my twitter friends for help, and they came through. Several recommended Paparazzi and @rodbegbie pointed me to Page Saver.
Paparazzi is a standalone app based on Webkit, so you’ll see what pages look like in Safari. Paste a URL and you’ll get a nice PNG output. I don’t see a way to authenticate, so I’m guessing there are a lot of pages that you just can’t capture with Paparazzi.
Page Saver is a Firefox extension, so you can grab full-scroll images with one click from inside Firefox (I’m using FF2) so you’re capturing what you see in the browser. It’s handy to use, and I’m keeping it installed.
I’ve been enjoying Season One of Happiness, the BBC comedy co-written and starring Paul Whitehouse of The Fast Show and the brilliant therapy-based character comedy Help.
Happiness opens with 39 yr old Danny checking his bald spot in the mirror and preparing for his wife’s funeral. It’s funny without being ridiculous, addresses seriously human moments without being manipulative.
It’s an honest look at a sad, vulnerable man rapidly approaching middle age. I can’t imagine why it appeals to me so much 8^)
I also have invites to The Box, an excellent BitTorrent tracker for Brit TV.
