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RegToy Tweaks Your PC Every Which Way [Featured Windows Download]
via RB | Popular by (author unknown) on April 22, 2008
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker shared by 10 people Windows only: Free PC tweaking utility RegToy exposes all sorts of Windows settings that you'd normally have to dig into the registry to get to. Change the way Windows looks and behaves with RegToy, which is similar to the TweakUI PowerToy. It offers dozens of system-wide to user-specific settings—most of which will only matter to the...
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How to setup a live real-time polls using Google Docs
via RB | Recent by (author unknown) on May 01, 2008
... of the responses as people fill out the form.Basically, you have to create a Spreadsheet and then setup a form on the spreadsheet. I’ll go through the steps to do this as it’s pretty easy to do and very cool!How to create a real-time survey/pollFirst step is that you need to log into your Google Docs account and create a new spreadsheet.Now click on the Share tab at the far right of the sc...
Shared by: Chris Jackson, lizunlong, Robert Scoble, Tomo, blindsurf3r, ndench, ckaroli,
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FriendFeed Noise Control, Semantic Web and Dave Winer
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek shared by 2 peopleOn a FriendFeed discussion about the noise on the Web in general, Lindsay Donaghe posted this comment:Actually I think it’s the same problem we have in general with the firehose of information we’re exposed (or expose ourselves) to on a daily basis. The struggle of where to apply our attention will only be resolved once...
Shared by: Buzzworkers, dobata, Azeem, Mike Reynolds, atul, Sean McBride, Jill,
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Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts
via The Inquisitr by Duncan Riley on June 04, 2008
When I wrote my FriendFeed wishlist May 29 my number one wish was for FriendFeed to support custom tabs. This isn’t happening yet, and even if it did it would likely be for content currently supported by FriendFeed, not external services. But I still wanted tabs, and inspired by a Greasemonkey script called FriendFeed tabs (they use the plural, but it only delivers Techmeme in a tab) I started...
Shared by: Franklin P, Drew Olanoff, charlie anzman, louisgray, Alex, Nico, Bwana,
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OneSpot Makes Publishing Personalized Memetrackers Simple
via louisgray.com by louisgray on June 17, 2008
News aggregation sites that can help highlight the freshest, most relevant or most popular news from around the Web are essential to separating the signal from the noise. But all too often, these memetrackers are siloed, without readers having all that much input into what's considered most relevant, or determining what content gets in and what does not.The success of Gabe Rivera's...
Shared by: Superbunker, louisgray, HejGustav, Ben, Franklin P, charlie anzman, Russellreno,
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Share items directly through ReadBurner!
via ReadBurner by Alexander Marktl on January 22, 2008
I have integrated a feature to share items on ReadBurner without having to subscribe to the Feed first. Louis Gray led me to this idea with his recent article Add Items to Your Google Reader Link Blog Without Subscribing.How does it works:You hit the share button and then the Google Reader will open with only 1 item in it - the item you want to share. Instead of subscribing to the feed you just...
Shared by: louisgray, Alex, atul, SeekGround, Frederic, VoDKaCoLa,
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A Big Upgrade Day for Five Social Services
via louisgray.com by louisgray on January 23, 2008
Sometimes, you can go weeks without news, and then seemingly, there's this spike of activity, when the industry snaps out of its temporary slumber and gets coding.Today, in the space of a few hours, some of my favorite Web services all went into the shop for a tune-up and came out with some intriguing features. Of note, FriendFeed, ReadBurner, Spokeo, Shared Reader and LinkedIn have all made...
Shared by: Dennes, louisgray, Frederic, Todd McKinney, Alex, Mike Reynolds,
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How Soon Until People Demand Link Blog Portability?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on January 27, 2008
The issues of data portability and ownership reached a fever pitch when Robert Scoble famously got kicked off Facebook for 24 painful hours. Users debated forwards and backwards over whether he had wrongly tried to export data from his friends that he believed belonged to him, while the social network believed they had ownership. In the ensuing months, many of the largest Web firms have joined...
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Permission Marketing
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on January 31, 2008
Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them. It recognizes the new power of the best consumers to ignore marketing. It realizes that treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention. Pay attention is a key phrase here, because permission marketers understand that when...
Shared by: Todd McKinney, Sue, Andy, adamkcarson, chrisbrogan.com, Frank,
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RSSmeme Debuts as ReadBurner Clone
via louisgray.com by louisgray on February 06, 2008
Another day, another site launching to highlight the most popular shared items in Google Reader.With ReadBurner achieving its one-month anniversary tomorrow, the service is already spawning a number of copycats, first seeing Dennes Abing start with Shared Reader, and now, today, Benjamin Golub has debuted a new site, called RSSmeme. In both cases, the two sites saw the success that Alexander...
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