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Google Reader Adds Shared Notes, Non-Feed Page Capture [Social Bookmarking]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 05, 2008
Google adds yet another social-ish function, "Notes," to its Reader feed-browsing tool. The practical use comes from a new bookmarklet that posts whatever page you're looking at to your shared Reader items, with your own notes attached. You can also post notes with no link at all to be shared with your "friends," making it a kind of Twitter clone for, well, avid feed readers. As one blogger...
Shared by: Jason David Pelker, Eric, Black_Skorpio, David, Miggity, Keenan, Todd, metaeuphoria, Mike Reynolds, Paiva, mcastel, K, Amish, Daniel, Hannibal, Dan Russell, Jamin, spavis, Dave S, Joe, Jay, Jrod, austin,
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The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 28, 2008
Yahoo! Pipes is one of the coolest ways to mashup the RSS feeds of various sites and sources to get the data you want. Since our coverage of Yahoo! Pipes, thousands of creations are now available. However, finding the best picks can be tough. ReadWriteWeb has done the hardest part and comprised a list of some of the best Yahoo Pipes created by users. So without further ado, we give you the...
Shared by: Jason David Pelker, Drew Olanoff, greenergrad, Chris. F. Masse, Lambert, atul, mcastel, terababy, Sean McBride, Martin Gerken, Fernando B, Franklin P, cdogzilla, totalpardo, pabben, ab_aditya, kamthorn, Tina K.J, Felix Banuchi, Iverson,
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Get Vista's Best Features in XP [Windows]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 12, 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather Microsoft extended XP's shelf-life, several new and improved features available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn't mean you're out of luck. Let's take a look at a few ways you can incorporate Windows Vista's best...
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Award Winning Fiction in 140 Characters
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 29, 2008
"Constraints drive innovation and force focus," according to 37Signals in their popular "Getting Real" book. If that's true, then Copyblogger's Twitter Writing Contest, announced a couple of weeks ago, should have had writers brimming with creativity. The task? Write a short story in 140 characters. Not less than 140 characters, exactly 140 characters. That's no easy task, but...
Shared by: Geoff, Martin Gerken, Keef, Program Witch, Frederic, Roger, atul, kamthorn, Lambert, mcastel, urbansheep, Jbud1, Jes, Ihar Mahaniok, Ruman, Amish,
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Share and Annotate Web Pages in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 05, 2008
Google Reader's sharing feature was barely noticed when it was added, then it got more exposure when the shared items started to be broadcasted to Google Talk contacts and somesites aggregated shared posts. As Google Reader became more social, people discovered that it has some important limitations. "Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn't want to go...
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Google Spreadsheets Become Wikis
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 13, 2008
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki...
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Giving Twitter a Break: A Look at the Alternatives to Twitter
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 24, 2008
With all the frustration, confusion, and support going towards Twitter this week, a break from Twitter might be just want the doctor ordered. This weekend users have been asking for alternatives to Twitter. In this post we answer that question in a variety of ways. Here's a look at several alternatives to Twitter both online and offline, that will help reduce Twitter's stress levels and...
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Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on May 21, 2008
Only two days ago the contact messaging application Twitter suffered another bout of downtime, leaving some users frustrated and others asking why the platform continues to suffer problems. Twitter started as a side project whichI have recently spoken to an individual who is familiar with the technical problems at Twitter as well as the challenges that lay ahead for the startup. He re-iterated...
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AjaxDaddy Adds Slick Applets to Your Web Site [Web Publishing]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 24, 2008
Need to give your blog or personal site a more modern look? AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don't have time to learn an entire programming language, or just need a starter block of code to get building. Grab free, easy-to-modify code for Flickr-like editing fields, quick-loading slideshows and tabbed galleries, instant graphs,...
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Gmail's Humble Beginning
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 16, 2008
Paul Buchheit, Gmail's first engineer, writes about the first steps in the evolution of Gmail.I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email...
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