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Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 17, 2008
Web applications track many user actions and use them for different purposes: improving the products, finding patterns, building user profiles etc. For example, Google Reader records some of your actions without providing options in the interface to access the data. Here are some addresses where you can find historical data about the items you've subscribed to (click on "View all items" to...
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FriendFeed: Ex-Googlers Create Social Network Experience Using Feeds
via ReadWriteWeb by Sean Ammirati on February 08, 2008
On the most recent episode of ReadWriteTalk, I sat down with Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit of FriendFeed. Both have been successful 'intrapreneurs' inside of Google. Buchheit created GMail; while Taylor created Google Maps along with another one of the 4 FriendFeed founders, and then led the Google developer tools program. After leaving Google separately, they eventually started...
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I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
Paul Buchheit on listening to users: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 instead of mine. That was version two. After I released that...
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Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock [Stuff We Like]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 27, 2008
Dock any internal hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick. If you've got a few old hard drives hanging around that you'd like to put to good use but they aren't really worth installing in your computer's innards and you don't feel like taking the time to convert that old drive into an external hard drive, this simple dock,...
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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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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An Online Collection of Visualized Networks
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 26, 2008
VisualComplexity.com is a site that intends to be a unified resource space for the visualization of complex networks. Their main goal is to better understand the different types of visualization methods used across several different disciplines, including social networks and the World Wide Web.Why Visualizations?The VisualComplexity web site was created by Manuel Lima, an interaction designer,...
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ReadBurner and the Future of Leveraged User Data
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on January 22, 2008
ReadBurner is an interesting new project that displays the hottest URLs at any given time according to the Google Reader "shared items" feeds users have submitted for tracking. It's a relatively simple concept but it just makes sense and the possibilities for the future are exciting to consider
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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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