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More Social Sharing With Google Reader

06.May.08 | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Continuing the Perfect Start Page Quest

06.Mar.08 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

FriendFeed Imaginary Friends

03.Mar.08 | 3 Comments

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 [...]

Google Reader Sharing

14.Dec.07 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

FeedEntryHeader - Stop Scrapers?

09.Dec.07 | 2 Comments

One of my largest pet peeves has to be feed scraping. It is a habit lower life forms have of scraping my RSS into their blogs and presenting it as their own content.
That drives me nuts. Not that I have an issue with sharing what I write — this is all under the Creative Commons [...]

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