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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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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Continuing the Perfect Start Page Quest

This is a bit of a wandering post, just like most of my other articles here. In an attempt to add some clarity, I’ll first set the stage by explaining what brought this post to life:

What am I really after in a (web) start page? My goal is to come up with a personalized dashboard

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FriendFeed Imaginary Friends

FriendFeed’s imaginary friend capability might just make it the easiest (dare I say best?) way to follow folks from all over — without them even having to be a FriendFeed user.

You can keep track of your friends that don’t use FriendFeed by creating “imaginary friends.” For example, if you know your friend’s Flickr username, you

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Google Reader Sharing

Ok, this is wild! I just fired up Google Reader:

My feed list now includes friends’ (using Google Reader) shared stuff!

Ah, I see I hadn’t yet read “Reader and Talk are Friends.” (click that!)
I think I need to get more friends on my Google Talk to make this more interesting.

Heady stuff and downright social. I

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