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Be the First to Rate This…

October 30th

Outbrain is a plug-in content rating system that also provides recommendations automatically at the end of each article where it is installed. There is no special logins needed to rate an article, just click on the number of stars you think the article deserves and your rating is recorded.

At Last — Disqus Supports Pingbacks!

October 22nd

Tonight, I got a SMS message from Disqus on Twitter.  The tweet was pretty succinct:
Disqus for WordPress 2.03 released.: This release includes trackback/pingback and pagination support as we.. http://tinyurl.com/5z98kh
That was enough for me!  Disqus’ lack of PingBack support in WordPress was really something that I missed, as you can probably tell from this article’s title.  [...]

Feedly – Delicious – Digg Synergy FTW

October 10th

I noticed today while browsing my river on Feedly that it ‘enhanced’ one of my del.icio.us bookmarks with commentary from Digg on the same article.

Diigo Tests Group Thumbs

September 22nd

Now, if you are a member of a particular group in Diigo, you can give certain URLs a thumbs-up if you think it is especially helpful.

Toluu Learns to Hover

July 16th

Caleb has added a new feature to his socialized RSS feed sharing app, Toluu today. Now, anywhere in Toluu when you see a feed name and you hover your cursor over it, you will get a pop-up dialog with the feed name and the last 5 articles titles.

Wordle Now Does RSS

July 13th

I don’t know how I didn’t notice this, but the fun little word app Wordle now will take any RSS feed and generate a wordle from it. Make one for your site today!

New Flickr Features?

July 7th

Did Flickr just add a few new features?

You Choose the Target!

July 2nd

That little puppy they used in Target commercials is so cute! I just want to hug it!

Why I Flip-Flopped on Yahoo! Buzz

June 25th

Do you have a Yahoo! login? I bet you do. Everyone has one. And if you do, you have everything you need in order to participate in Yahoo! Buzz. I used to be really down on the service, with its exclusivity and the huge hype that led up to its unveiling. But recently, I’ve changed my mind.

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