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Google Reader Adds Shared Notes, Non-Feed Page Capture [Social Bookmarking]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 06, 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...
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What If You Only Subscribed to Shared Item Feeds?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on February 08, 2008
Last night, we discussed the importance of a well-kept shared link blog in Google Reader. Humans can still play an important role in filtering out the best of feeds from the rest, as smart folks can trump even the best written code in terms of determining humor, originality and insight.The ease of creating and subscribing to link blogs in Google Reader has led to some actively searching out these...
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Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on January 22, 2008
Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago. It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka (Ros
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Top 10 Last.fm Mashups
via RSSmeme | Most Popular Stories From The Last 24 Hours by (author unknown) on February 18, 2008
Shared nine times TaggedProducts (106)Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. But the now CBS-owned service doesn't get nearly enough credit for its API. We've heard stories about how 90% of Twitter's use comes from its API. Well, Last.fm also has an...
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Writing a Book in Google Docs
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on January 23, 2008
Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O'Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and maybe it's helpful for you too for certain needs.The outlineThe base document we're working on is the outline. It's a linked table of contents which helps us to organize the broad...
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Share Almost Any Blog Post in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on January 27, 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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Scribd Launches New Platform and iPaper, a New Format for Web Docs
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 19, 2008
Scribd, the online document sharing site, announced today the creation of a new document format built for the web, dubbed iPaper. This web-based viewer lets you view documents in a browser using a Flash-based widget, with no need for software downloads. Also launched today is the Scribd platform, a set of tools that lets anyone use iPaper on their own internal web site.iPaperiPaper has been...
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Some Adobe AIR Apps Worth a Look
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 25, 2008
Adobe's AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser. Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it's time to look at some of the AIR apps you can use today. And if you want to know why we here at Read Write Web are so excited about AIR, read more of our analysis about the platform to get...
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Best Online File Sharing Services [Hive Five]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 08, 2008
Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service, and over 200 nominations later, we've rounded up the five most popular services. Hit the jump for a look at the top five, and then cast your vote...
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