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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 08, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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FriendFeed Still Has a Lot of Killing to Do
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 23, 2008
With Twitter down all the time, the super-early adopters are getting frustrated and looking to FriendFeed as their salvation. Duncan (over at Inquisitr now) argues that it is time for FriendFeed to kill Twitter. And Jason Kaneshiro at Webomatica already has FriendFeed Fever. He thinks it can not only replace Twitter, but also Facebook, Google Reader, and Digg!FriendFeed certainly has a lot of...
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Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by andrea Trucchetti per blogger!Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that's exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your post ideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than to actually get your...
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Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 02, 2008
You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves. We've rounded up our favorite scripts for fans of social media and...
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Google Reader’s new “share note” feature: the video review
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble One thing is FriendFeed now says it is importing these headlines. I wish these comments had a LOT more features.I love the idea of Google Reader’s new “share note” feature, but find it lacking in implementation — watch along in this video review.What’s really wrong with it?1. It’s breaking on my machines. No way to cancel note that I can see, and UI is not...
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Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS
via louisgray.com by louisgray on June 16, 2008
... changed its name to eliminate confusion with other products on the market, and has been in private testing for several months. I first started talking with Edwin Khodabakchian back in mid-February, and even then, the project had been under scrutiny from more than 100 early testers for the better part of three months. The goal? To bring a new, graphical, view of feeds, via Google Reader, an...
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Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on January 22, 2008
Chris Saad, Chairman of the Data Portability Working Group, confirmed to me this morning that Microsoft's David Treadwell, a VP at Windows Live, will be joining the organization. Microsoft is expected to make a formal announcement in the coming days. News first leaked out via a shadowy post at Computerworld this morning.The Working Group aims to foster standard protocols for users to port...
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Google Reader Gets Serious About Shared Items
via Official ReadBurner Blog by adam on May 05, 2008
... to (1) a lot more people sharing (2) a lot more items being shared and (3) a greater diversity of sources and types of stories since you can now share any web page. We’re really glad to see the GReader team paying attention to users and what they want, and excited about the implications of these new features!A few more details and minor updates are available on the Google Reader team blog.
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Who can take care of everything?
via indexed by Jessica Hagy on June 04, 2008
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Techmeme listens: 32 months in the making, search arrives!
via Techmeme News by (author unknown) on May 19, 2008
Hours after Techmeme launched in 2005,search uberblogger Danny Sullivanremarked"there's no keyword search facility that I can see. I want that, and soon!"Nobody wants to let Danny down,so I got right to work and 32 months later,a search box now sits atop the site.Well, actually, work on search was rather seriously delayed.For years, I blew it off since it always seemed a secondary...
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