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What Is RSS? RSS Explained - www.WhatIsRSS.com
I have found out that there are still a lot of people out there who do not fully appreciate the power of RSS…
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
I myself was a late comer. In fact, I got into RSS when I re-discovered the beauty and elegance of the best browser on the planet, Firefox.
Here is a site I found from Clif’s Newsletter which will shed light on one of the most useful tool for surfing the web.
Popularity: 43% [?]
March 21st, 2007
A good review of the current social bookmarking tools out there. I am just perplexed that del.icio.us was omitted.
My current social bookmarking habits:
Digg: I am more a passive user of this tool. Digg is a fantastic way to monitor the stories or sites which get the biggest number of hits or ‘digg’. Most of my items on the my del.ico.us linkroll on the right of my blog are from monitoring Digg.com (via my Blackberry).
Del.icio.us: In contrast to Digg, I do not actively monitor top links/tags on Del.ico.us. Rather, I make use of the tool’s powerful online bookmarking facilities which are highly customisable and nicely integrated with Firefox.
Clipmarks: Now, I not only do I monitor top links on clipmarks.com but I am also a fervent user: I regularly use it to spread bits of the web among my friends, through my blog and the net community at large. I also used to file interresting web items for my private use.
StumbleUpon: A wonderful tool to discover fantastic web sites. Very addictive to the point I had to disable it on my browser as I getting get hooked and wasted a lot of time at the expense of the above more useful tools.
Popularity: 20% [?]
March 19th, 2007
Warriors of the Net
This is a great animated video explaining the basics of how the internet works. You can follow the animated packets as they travel across the vast internet.
The background for this movie is very simple, we found that in the fast transition from the Telcom world to the Internet world that the Telco industry is now experiencing, many people who had been working with traditional Telco systems, had difficulty grasping how the Internet worked. They tried to map their old knowldege into a new world without much success.
An example of this is the issue of multiplexing, a cornerstone of the traditional circuit switched network. To give these people a picture of the net we created this movie, to show how the Internet works. Not to give a complete picture but just an overview of the different components that you find in this type of network.
Popularity: 25% [?]
March 19th, 2007
You Send It
YouSendIt.com allows you to send large files, up to 100 MB, for free to any e-mail address. This is great when you need to send a large file but your e-mail account has an attachment size limit. It is also helpful if you e-mail blocks the file type you want to send, such as zip files.
YouSendIt lets businesses, professionals and consumers move big files. If you know how to use email, you can easily use the YouSendIt service. YouSendIt currently has over 3 million registered users across 220 countries and over 13,000 paid users. More than 400 million files have been transferred using the service and YouSendIt is transferring over 1 million files with 30,000 gigabytes daily.
Popularity: 24% [?]
March 14th, 2007
I’m trying out Bunny’s Technorati Tags Wordpress plugin, written by Stephanie Booth to create tags for indexing by Technorati (see the list of links at the bottom of this post). So far it looks like it is working great and it was fairly easy to install. I’ll post again later with my impressions after I’ve used it more.
Popularity: 43% [?]
February 26th, 2007
Blurb
Blurb has released free software for creating your own book. The catch is you pay them to print the book for you. I got a demo of the software at Mac World and it is impressive. It does much of the work for you, letting you easily move around photos and blocks of text with their excellent interface. One unique Blurb feature is the ability to import your blog from the major blogging services and turn it into a book. You can just enter your username and password and Blurb will download the content of your blog and turn it into a book. Blurb also has the option of marking up your book and selling it through their site for a profit.
Popularity: 28% [?]
January 12th, 2007
EFF
I describe EFF as the “geek ACLU” to people who haven’t heard of it before. EFF tirelessly defends civil liberties, consumer rights, and the gadgets that we adore. They have been involved with many landmark technology cases including holding Sony accountable with infecting customers’ computers with root kits, defending online journalists’ right to protect the confidentiality of their sources, and even suing the Department of Justice for their illegal electronic surveillance.
Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public. EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the US government or large corporations. By mobilizing more than 50,000 concerned citizens through our Action Center, EFF beats back bad legislation. In addition to advising policymakers, EFF educates the press and public. Sometimes just defending technologies isn’t enough, so EFF also supports the development of freedom-enhancing inventions.
Popularity: 20% [?]
January 10th, 2007
Power Pizza
The power pizza is a padded pizza box that both protects your laptop from damage, but also from theft…unless a thieve is feeling hungry…
Desirable laptops are desirable to thieves too. Disguise your laptop with a PowerPizza and reduce the risk of getting it nicked.
Popularity: 42% [?]
January 3rd, 2007
Boing Boing
Boing Boing is one of my favorite web sites on the entire internets. Originally a magazine this “directory of wonderful things” provides daily entertainment. The site has five editors/authors that post a wide array of links and information. Some of the stuff they come up with themselves, and some is submitted by the sites readers.
Some common themes include politics, Disneyland, cryptozoology, online communities & games, science, technology, media, civil liberties, DRM, censorship, privacy, and sex…but the most common topic is the uncommon with no real central theme to the site.
I LOVE me some Boing Boing.
Popularity: 25% [?]
December 23rd, 2006
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