This is a guest post by Shane Perris who blogs at Techwhimsy, “a place for considered ideas, current events in review and explorations of how to do things not just because you need to but just because you can.” What are the three hottest web 2.0 social services right now? Judging by the latest buzz [...]
Maybe you haven’t joined FriendFeed yet, but that’s no reason why you still can’t enjoy the resources it provides. A handful of links from the service can act as your own personal information filter for finding out what’s currently hot on the net without you ever needing to sign in. How is that possible? By [...]
See that YackTrack link at the bottom of this post (RSS readers click through to see what I mean). This little link lets you use the conversation tracking service provided by YackTrack to follow the discussion surrounding an article all across the net including sites like Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and WordPress. (You [...]
From Grooveshark there now comes a handy new tool called TinySong that lets you share music with your friends. To use TinySong, you enter in an artist’s name or the name of the song and do a search. From the Grooveshark database, a list of results will appear. When you see the one you want, [...]
Thanks to Leslie Poston at Profy, I’m alerted to a new WordPress plugin that jumps on the TwitPitch bandwagon, allowing you to get PR pitches DM’d to you via your blog or web site. Nifty! If you missed the debut of the TwitPitch, it was an idea invented by Stowe Boyd, a business strategy and [...]
I would like to thank Thord Daniel Hedengren, who just interviewed me over on BloggerTalks. Get to know me and learn more about Grand Effect over here: http://bloggertalks.com/2008/05/sarah-perez-and-the-grand-effect/. There’s also a short plug about this on today’s The Blog Herald. Thanks, that was fun!
Today, our online world is very much a reflection of the "real" world – we have good friends, acquaintances, colleagues, mentors, peers, family, and others, all of whom join us online in some way, shape, or form. And for those that live in big cities, especially tech meccas like San Francisco, Seattle, or New York, [...]
It’s good to have programmer friends. One of mine made a tool just for me and he said that I can tell you about it now, too. The tool is called Feedpour and it’s the kind of thing any pro blogger would love. Why pro bloggers? Because for those of us that write professionally, part [...]
Newstex, a content-on-demand company, serves news and commentary to companies and industries that require real-time information. Some of their customers include CNNMoney, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, LexisNexis, and The New York Times. For the different types of markets they serve, they offer specialized newsfeeds that deliver information from a wide [...]
If you haven’t already heard of bTT, get up-to-speed by reading this great review over on Corvida’s site. This Twitter/FriendFeed combo app has probably gotten overlooked by many due to it being Windows-only. However, if you are on Windows, it’s certainly worth a look. After initially launching a less-than-worthy app by the silly name of [...]
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