By Calvin Azuri on Thursday, January 31, 2008Filed Under: Web Apps
Launched in 2005 by the IT genius that is Google Labs, Google Reader offers users more control over how they view their news feeds. According to your preferences, you can customize your options to display tidbits from all of your chosen websites, blogs, and news feeds, regardless of how often they are updated.
With Google […]
By JoCoWash on Tuesday, January 15, 2008Filed Under: News, Service, Web
Tiinker, built by Deep Grey Labs, a start-up from Sydney Australia, is the new “intelligent news aggregator.” Essentially, it is an RSS reader that lets you vote stories as interesting or not interesting. Based on these votes, Tiinker is supposed to show you stories, via the numerous RSS feeds they consume, that are interesting to […]
By JoCoWash on Monday, November 5, 2007Filed Under: Service, Web, Web Apps
Fav.or.it is a new type of RSS Reader currently in private beta, which aims to solve the issue of feed content being separated from commenting. The fav.or.it RSS Reader lets you read feed content all within the app, which is extra nice. As of now the site is not public and I have yet to […]
By JoCoWash on Wednesday, October 31, 2007Filed Under: Service, Web
“FeedBurner? What is FeedBurner? How do I use it? What do I do, burn feeds?” Those are a few questions I got in response when I took a small poll of about 15 people. Four of them already knew about this growing service, and the others got this same speech:
FeedBurner is the leading provider of […]
By JoCoWash on Monday, October 29, 2007Filed Under: Service, Web
I came across a service called FriendFeed that confused me at first, but with closer scrutiny, I realized exactly what it did and immediately signed up to become a beta tester.
FriendFeed is a cool service, allowing an aggregated view of an individual’s social-web content to be captured within a single web site. The aim […]