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A Feed Is Born

May 11th, 2008

WaSnake the Shelf RSS Reader

If you are tired at looking at your computer when reading the latest feeds. Why not try WaSnake. Featured on newlaunches, it is shelf made from wood and elastomer than can be reconfigured to fit almost any shape or purpose, plus it displays SMS and RSS feeds.
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May 10th, 2008

One more way to read a twit

Talk have been abound that Twitter is the new RSS feed. In other words it is the new way to deliver information or at least notify everyone that you have a new item posted on one’s blog or website. To me it seems to be more of an alert system when it comes to posts and new items published.

And for me one of the main problems with Twitter is it tends to get annoying. This is so true when you follow more than a hundred or so persons Read More

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May 10th, 2008

Evernote - a weapon worthy of the constant infophile

I recently stumbled upon an essay that divides the world into infophobes and infophiles. It is generally believed that the infophobes outnumber infophiles. Recently, I was able to get into and was able to use Evernote. In a nutshell it is an information, data and knowledge capture tool.
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May 9th, 2008

Google Reader new feature is share and share

Have you tried Google Reader’s Your Notes feature? It is Google Reader’s new feature that allows you share with one’s friends anything that can be found on the Web that you might find interesting. It is Google Reader’s version of sharing the love and the information.

It is quite simple to install. Just drag Google Readers’ Note in Reader to your browser. Voila! its installed.

Sharing posts, pages and other such things is done with a click on the brower and one can write down notes using Notes page.

Interesting now I have Evernote and Note in Reader in my web browser. Both able to capture but for different purposes. At least for me.

What is interesting though is the Your Notes feature of Google Reader. Aside from annotating pages, post and sites that have been captured it can be posted on its own. Making it somewhat Twitter-like ? Well, It does remind of Twitter.

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May 4th, 2008

Times sure is pretty

If you have a Mac OS X you might want to try Times. An RSS reader developed by Dustin MacDonald and gives a new and very pretty experience for Mac users.

Why is this so?

What makes Times different from the other Mac RSS Readers?
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May 4th, 2008

Good bye NewsAlloy

NewsAlloy has shut down: As of April 29 it was shutting down. This is confirmed in the blog entry of the same date. Read it here. according to the final (?) blog post it seemed that the project was not attracting investors to the enterprise. Now I have never used NewsAlloy but based on their statistics there seems to be a healthy amount of interest for their site. Again, unfortunately these were not the ones who were willing to invest.
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May 1st, 2008

Happy RSS Awareness Day!

This is probably one of my favorite stories I read when I was growing up. And today being RSS Awareness Day. It seems a nice way to celebrate it. Its a nice story and seems to be applicable to most things in life whether it be dealing with issues or a gazillion of posts to read after not opening one’s rss feed for a couple of days.
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April 29th, 2008

ZebTab the Unreader

Admittedly there is a slight pause when one mentions the word RSS. It is as if a mind cloud seems to hover about a person’s brain when one speaks of it. It does not help that RSS stands for more than one set of words. It just seems to scare the beejesus out of anyone. If I had a penny every time someone tells me that A Feed Is Born is about chicken feeds I would be several pennies richer now. But enough of the rant. Now a software application and service company aims to avoid the word and other such phrases together while delivering the service so to speak. Meet ZebTab and its RSS Agreggator er desktop channels.

What is ZebTab? Well according to its website:
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April 29th, 2008

NewsGator’s improved Inbox

NewsGator Technologies Inc released last April 17 2008 an improved free rss reader for Microsoft Outlook called the Inbox 3.0. In a nutshell the Inbox 3.0 allows one to track and manage all of their RSS content within an email application. Check out their, NewsGator, press release here.

What are the new features of Inbox 3.0
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April 29th, 2008

If you were a social technology…

If your were a social technology what would you be. Apparently social technology is the term they use now for software applications or more specifically communications and information syndication software applications. Hmm. Ok lets stick to social technology. Lee Oden of the Online Marketing Blog interviewed Forrester Research Vice President & Principal Analyst covering social computing and technologies Charlene Li and asked at her point what social technology she would be.

But who is Charlene Li?
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