Social Stuff: Pandora, Meebo, Del.icio.us and BlinkList

Here’s a collection of recent updates from several “social” web applications that I follow.

Pandora, my favorite streaming music site, announced some new social features a couple days ago. All sorts of fun stuff added to enable listeners to find other, similar listeners or new music.

You can search profiles, search based on “channels”, or

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Social Enhancements from BlinkList

Just a few days ago I mentioned that I was moving away from BlinkList as my bookmarking tool of choice (see “It’s Hard to Whine About Free, But…“).

Today BlinkList announced a big pile of changes aimed at the social aspects of bookmarking (well, they use the phrase “search and discovery”). Some really cool stuff

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Major Google Reader Improvement

Google Reader has become an impressive feed reader over the past few months. However, it has always had one major gap: No ability to display articles oldest first. Many have asked for this ability, but it just never happened.

Until today, that is. The Google Reader blog now has an article up

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It’s Hard to Whine About Free, But…

At one point do you feel comfortable grousing about a free web based application? When does that not feel… cheesy?

Oh, let’s just say for instance… Perhaps there’s a social bookmarking site you really like. Of all that you’ve looked at, it stands out. It’s easy to use, pleasant to the eye and just

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BlinkList gets a new Blinker

If you’ve dabbled with any of the Social Bookmarking sites, you’ve probably used either their bookmarklets or Firefox plugins to make snagging new bookmarks easier. Some of these are decent, some are awkward. Some will automatically grab hilited text, some won’t. Some will show you tags other folks have used, some

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