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Announcing my new gig at Google Tutor!

Disqus news - enhanced popup profile.

You’re on AIM, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. You think you have it covered with Trillian or Pidgin. Perhaps you think you are a step ahead of your coworkers because you are using Meebo. Think again.

Anybody out there a fan of the webcomic Penny Arcade? It’s a webcomic that’s had consistently funny strips 3 times a week. It is very video game-oriented, but today’s strip is much closer to home!
I’d republish it here but it is mildly NSFW (swear words), so head on over if you have a [...]

Do you use FriendFeed, and follow a bunch of people? You might be interested in this little RSSmeme link that, once you put in you FF username, find the links published by your peeps and ranks them by popularity. Grab the RSS feed and voila, you have a quick-n-dirty feed that exposes you [...]

I guest-posted at SheGeeks! Follow the link for the full article.

I have the realization that content isn’t the only important thing in social media — CONTENT CREATORS are too!

Is TwitKit the perfect Firefox sidebar companion? Maybe!

In this article I revew two Firefox addons, Tweetbar and TwitterFox.

I officially nominate the term spitter!

Louis Gray has a great write-up on different A-list blogger’s takes on the thorny issue of comment systems that work in tandem with RSS feeds to allow commenting outside of the blogs the articles were originally written on.

A good review of Flock 1.1 on this site, including some functionality that I overlooked:

Version 1.1 really shines in its enhancements to the MyWorld page, including the Friend Activity Feed. Once you’ve logged into all your social networking services, you can drag and drop messages from one friend to another. For example, if Sally makes [...]

FeedBurner, FeedFlare, Disqus, and gReader.. what do all these things have in common? Awesomeness.

StumbleUpon isn’t very much like any social bookmarking site out there. And, in a way, that is good. If you are relatively new to web surfing, or even if you feel like you are going to the same 5 web sites every day, StumbleUpon is the perfect remedy.

So, why switch to a new browser? Isn’t it possible to do everything you want to do with the one you are using, via plugins or mods? Well, perhaps. But maybe you will find a browser that works just as well as the one you are using, and provides a level of integration and convenience with services and sites you already use. Maybe that web browser is Flock.