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Archive for February 2008

February 20th, 2008

GenRSS and the search

There are different ways of looking at human history. There is one way of looking at it saying that mankind’s history has always been the quest for a better mouse trap. I remember an old book where they featured several of these mouse traps.
And the Internet is no different it is Man’s quest to develop […]

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February 16th, 2008

See’N’search Samsung See’N’search

Saw this video by through Richard Lawler’s post, Samsung’s See’N’Search set-top TV / Internet box demo video , at Engadget. It shows how Samsung’s See’N’Search set top box works - what is does is scans the channel guide and related meta data and then suggests possible links to the program or shows one […]

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February 16th, 2008

PolFeed aggregates US Politicians news

If you would like to get the news about the US politicians you might just want to try PolFeeds. PolFeeds is a service that aggregates all feeds of US Politicians and presents it to the user for customization and use.
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February 13th, 2008

Alertle Alerts

The Internet seems to be shrinking in terms of RSS Readers.
Ladies and Gentlemen meet Alertle. Promoted as the new way of reading feeds:
Experience the new and revolutionary way of surfing the web, where you get the updates from your favorite websites delivered to you in one place.[Source]

But what is new and innovative with Alertle?
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February 13th, 2008

Illumio for taming information overload and socializing

I have been trying out Illumio for the past few weeks and this seems to be a quite useful tool in trimming the information fat from RSS and Web feeds. The application and services needs an app to be downloaded and one needs to be registered to the service.
The service tailors the news harvested […]

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February 11th, 2008

Tinkering with Tiinker

Tiinker is a news aggregator that uses an algorithm to filter and screen news for you. The software uses the choice of articles as template for your filter. Tiinker was developed by the Sydney, Australia-based start up Deep Grey and the application was designed intentionally for one purpose:
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February 11th, 2008

Wikipedia in your pocket

Imagine carrying a whole encyclopedia in your pocket. I know you have heard or learned about this before. This has got to be one of the most mentioned blurb for any digital reader that came out of an inventors hands and into the care of the salesmen. Now imagine the whole Wikipedia inside an Iphone […]

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February 10th, 2008

StyleFeeder a feed for visual life and fashion

StyleFeeder is a visual focused application that delivers content and news from a list of tags and visuals pre-selected by the owner. Self-described as a personal shopping engine seems to use visual and textual tagging to do searcshes. Then delivers the result via RSS. And it is all based on or built by […]

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February 7th, 2008

RSS Reading list or box view?

I saw this wish while doing my regular reading today. Amanda Mooney at American Shelf Life wrote this post - Develop This: Twitter + RSS Aggregator. It is an interesting post in two ways: First, It is a legitmate concern among us RSS readers, in particular because of the growing number of feeds we read […]

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February 7th, 2008

University of Michigan 1 M scanned

Maria Mitchell, life, letters and journals is the millionth book put on-line by the University of Michigan. The book is about the life of 19th century American Astronomer Maria Mitchell.
What does this mean?
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