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Daily Digest 09/04/2008

A fresh take on the browser - Annotated All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so [...]

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No Google Chrome for me

I was off the grid for the last few days and actually heard the news of Google’s entry in the browser market on BBC Radio via NPR… I know - old school. Anyway - I don’t trust this thing at all. Why? Privacy. Skynet Google already knows far too much about me. The last thing they [...]

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Daily Digest 08/30/2008

Opentape Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player. tags: getanewbrowser, mixtape, opensource QuarkBase - About Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a [...]

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Twittad Launched This Week - Monetizing Twitter

Earlier this week Twittad launched a new advertising platform for Twitter. It’s a very ingenious idea - one that Twitter itself should have thought of and probably should adopt to start making money… Basically it allows Twitter users to sell ad space on their profile page. I did a quick interview with James Eliason, the [...]

Ubuiquity from Mozilla - Friday Video

This is an absolutely fantastic addition to Firefox. Watch and be amazed. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. June 20, 2008 — Friday Video May 30, 2008 — Friday Video

GTDInbox - Firefox Plugin

Hold the applause - my Inbox has been at 0 for one month. It feels great. While being productive with email is great - I found an excellent plugin to take my GMail inbox to the next level of “GTD” - the GTDInbox for GMail. I have been using this plugin for the last week [...]

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Site Updates - Need Feedback

I am working on some updates for this site and am looking for some feedback… First off is the Daily Link Digest - do you like that? I think it creates value by having me filter news for you. I just don’t know if you find it annoying or not. I have thought about removing it [...]

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10 Suggestions to Improve Google Reader From Louis Gray… 1. “More Like This” Suggestions 2. Eliminate Duplicate Feed Items 3. Add Negative Keywords 4. Share Items Without Subscriptions 5. Aggregate Reader Statistics 6. Addition of Search 7. Create a Link Blogs Directory 8. Further Integrate “Trends” 9. Expand Individual Feed Stats 10. Customization tags: getanewbrowser, google, reader Tweeting for Companies 101 “Twitter can be an amazingly powerful platform for [...]

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BarCamp Des Moines Tomorrow!

Well, I’ve been meaning to post about this for the last two weeks and I’ve put it off. But it’s never too late to spread the word! So what is BarCamp? BarCamp is the ultimate geek “unconference”. It is a gathering of people learning from and sharing with the other participants. BarCamps, although loosely structured, usually follow [...]

Announcing the 2008 Iowa Web Awards

Today we announced the 2008 Iowa Web Awards - an effort to honor all the hard work being done by all our local web gurus. it’s pretty much just like the Webby’s only local to Iowa. Here’s how it will play out… 1. The community will vote on the categories for which we will be giving out [...]