Track Site Changes with Google Reader

Google Reader has been a useful tool for following site feeds (RSS or Atom) since it was first released, but not every web site has a feed. In other words, Reader has bee great for getting updates on blogs, forums and most news sites, it hasn’t been useful at all with static sites or sites

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Google Reader in Netvibes – Solved (again)

A year ago I wrote up one way to get Google Reader integrated with Netvibes. That method worked well enough, but it was a bit awkward.

Two things have happened since then: Netvibes has continued to improve and Google Reader has an iPhone mobile interface (pointed out by TedHead in a comment from February of this

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My (current) Favorite Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are those nifty little shortcuts that get saved as bookmarks but can do so much more. Or, for more of a mouthful, here’s what Wikipedia has to say:

A bookmarklet is an applet […] stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term

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More Social Sharing With Google Reader

Just in case you missed it, Google Reader announced a few more sharing features today. I think all the new features are interesting, but one of them is also very cool.

What’s the cool one? The “Share Anything” bookmarklet. Share anything — you are no longer limited only to sharing articles from your subscribed

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Toying with Mobile Sites

I had some idle time today while enjoying the Packers game on TV. Dunno about you, but I can’t just sit and watch TV — I have to have something else going on as well. Usually I have a laptop with me, but lately I’ve been doing more and more on my phone’s browser

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