Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-21

• Home - Annotator - Annotating the Web

  The Annotator is an open-source JavaScript library and tool that can be added to any webpage to make it annotatable. Annotations can have comments, tags, users and more. Morever, the Annotator is designed for easy extensibility so its a cinch to add a new feature or behaviour.

• Open source — Government Service Design Manual

  This section presents architectural practice and considerations for using, publishing and contributing to free and open source software (FOSS).

• At Cleveland Museum of Art, the iPad Enhances - NYTimes.com

  Mr. Franklin is standing in front of a 40-foot-wide touch screen that displays greeting-card-size images of all 3,000 objects on display in the museum. When a visitor touches an image, the screen enlarges it, arranges itself near similarly themed objects, and offers information like the location of the actual piece. And by touching a “heart” icon in the corner of the image, the visitor can transfer it from the wall to an iPad (one brought from home or rented at the museum for $5 a day), creating a personal list of favorites.

  From the list of favorites, the user can devise a personalized tour, which can be shared with other users. “It’s very democratic. You can create a tour, and give it a funny name, and other people will follow it through the museum,” Mr. Franklin said. So far, more than 200 visitors have made their own tours, with names like “My new faves by Linda” and “Preston Loves Shadows.”

• jaredhanson/passport · GitHub

  Passport is designed to be a general-purpose, yet simple, modular, and unobtrusive, authentication framework. Passport's sole purpose is to authenticate requests. In being modular, it doesn't force any particular authentication strategy on your application. In being unobtrusive, it doesn't mount routes in your application. The API is simple: you give Passport a request to authenticate, and Passport provides hooks for controlling what occurs when authentication succeeds or fails.

• Formula.js

  Provide a JavaScript implementation of most formula functions supported by Microsoft Excel 2013 and Google Spreadsheets

• Countable.js—live word-counting in JavaScript

  Countable is a JavaScript function to add live paragraph-, word- and character-counting to an HTML element. Countable does not rely on any libraries and is very small in size.

• Home - Recline Data Explorer and Library

  A simple but powerful library for building data applications in pure Javascript and HTML.

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