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Popular Shared Items in Google Reader
via ReadBurner | Upcoming | English by (author unknown) on January 20, 2008
The idea of aggregating the posts shared by Google Reader users to create a memetracker somewhere between TechMeme and Digg is not new. Mario Romero created a Facebook app called
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Add Data to Google Spreadsheets Using Forms
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 05, 2008
Google Spreadsheets has a new feature that lets you create a form to accept data. When you go to the Share tab, there's a new option to "invite people to fill out a form". The form is very simple and can be customized by changing the order of entries, their labels and the type of answers. It's also a nice way to get feedback people who wouldn't normally collaborate on a...
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Share Almost Any Blog Post in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on January 26, 2008
Google Reader's sharing feature is very cool, but it's limited to your subscriptions. If you find an interesting post and you want to share it with your friends without subscribing to the feed, Google Reader is not very helpful. On a closer look, you'll notice that Google Reader lets you preview any feed without subscribing to it if you go to this...
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Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 13, 2008
Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information...
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Visualizing Social Media Fatigue
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 07, 2008
Our attention is stretched so thin these days that there are times when I have actually tried to register for what I thought was a new service only to realize later that I already had an account -- it just got lost in the shuffle. With so many new web sites and services vying for our attention it is easy to feel the effects of social media fatigue. Andrew Shuttleworth, a social media junky...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 11, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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The killer Twitter-tracker just arrived and its name is Tweetmeme
via TechCrunch by Mike Butcher on January 27, 2008
It had to happen sooner or later. We’ve had Technorati. We’ve had TechMeme. Now we have Tweetmeme, which will track what’s hot on micro-blogging platform Twitter. The business of tracking the online conversation just a got shot in the arm with the tech equivalent of crack cocaine.Built by the makers Fav.or.it, a yet-to-launch blog commenting system, Tweetmeme looks for new content and...
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A More Powerful Google Navigation Bar
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 05, 2008
iGoogleBar is a Firefox extension that enhances Google's navigation bar by showing the number of unread Gmail messages (only from the inbox) and the number of unread posts in Google Reader. The extension also adds icons that open Google gadgets for each service so you can preview your Gmail inbox from Google Calendar or open a recent document from Google Notebook.For example, in the...
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Can Google Still Claim To Be David To Microsoft’s Goliath? No.
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 02, 2008
Google finally went on the recordtoday regarding the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo deal. In short, they don’t like the idea of Microsoft and Yahoo being one company. They think it raises “troubling questions” and threatens “the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.” Microsoft is also vilified as engaging in “inappropriate and illegal influence” and having...
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Designing Google's Logo
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 11, 2008
Wired has an article about the design of Google's logo and its iterations. "Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous logo, shows the iterations that led to the instantly recognizable primary colors and Catull typeface that define the Google brand. Kedar met Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page through a mutual friend nine years ago at Stanford University, where...
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