It is becoming harder and harder to find the content you want online. No, it’s not because search engines are lacking (they aren’t). It’s because websites decide to plaster all sorts of distractions around their content, sometimes even putting ads smack in the middle of an article. What can we consumers do to fight back?
Readability. [...]
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Readability
November 1st, 2009
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Monitter
October 28th, 2009
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I’ve used Monitter to keep tabs on NASA’s Ares 1-X launch throughout the morning. What is Monitter? I’m glad you asked.
Monitter is a way to do real-time Twitter searches. You can add more columns to the default three, which enables you to track different searches.
Monitter supports Twitter search operators, such as ‘from:’ and ‘to:’. A [...]
It’s Official. Google Wave to Get Its Own App Store
October 27th, 2009
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Neato! This is exactly what Google Wave needs if it wants to become a mainstream communication tool.
With an app store specifically for Google Wave however, the potential for something as great, if not greater than the iPhone App Store is a distinct possibility. Already, independent software developers have built and tested Wave applications that handle [...]
Google Voice Offers Voicemail Without a New Number
October 27th, 2009
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Google Voice now allows you to use its amazing voicemail service without changing your number:
Your voicemail will be routed to Google’s servers, transcribed and sent to you by SMS or email, if you’d like, and accessible from your Voice web page (or playable in Gmail). It’s a similar offering to what services like YouMail have [...]
Feedly
October 26th, 2009
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I love Feedly. In short, Feedly presents all the articles in your RSS feeds in a magazine-like layout.
Instead of displaying a list of articles in chronological order, Feedly determines which articles you would be interested in and places them near the top of the page. Feedly also doesn’t focus on helping you read every single [...]
Mozilla’s Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal Again
October 25th, 2009
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Raindrop looks pretty interesting.
Mozilla Labs, Mozilla’s innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop. Mozilla says that Raindrop was built to be focused on highlighting and breaking out personal conversations, making it easier for you to see all of your conversations in one client. It is designed to “bubble [...]
Readtwit
September 24th, 2009
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I use Twitter primarily for finding out what’s happening in the wonderful world of technology. The problem is that it’s not easy to follow and keep up with all of those links. Enter Readtwit. After authorizing Readtwit using Twitter’s awesome OAuth integration, the aggregator will crawl your Twitter stream on a regular basis. It follows [...]
