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15 Useful Google App Engine Applications 
Mike F via louisgray.com on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)
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Getting OpenID Into the Browser 
David Recordon via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less. They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do anyway. That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important to an average web user as where they're going: Who they are. Identity belongs in the browser. Don't just believe me, just this week ReadWriteWeb talks about
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10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress 
Jean-Baptiste Jung via Smashing Magazine on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs run on WordPress, we’ll cover in this post some (hopefully) relatively unknown but useful R
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Songbeat Makes Searching For Music Online Really Simple 
Robin Wauters via TechCrunch on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
There’s a new version of Songbeat, a simple but powerful desktop application for discovering music online, and I like it. When it was first released ea
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Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? 
Om Malik via GigaOM on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big que
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BigTweet Sends Tweets from Any Web Page (Up to 280 Characters) 
louisgray@gmail.com (louisgray via louisgray.com on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
In one of my "couldn't be more wrong" predictions for the world of tech in 2008, I predicted that Twitter would move away from just offering text updates on its microblogging si
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The Internet hive and a new kind of privacy 
Steven Hodson via WinExtra on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
I am a strong believer in a person’s right to privacy. I don’t believe it is right for anyone to have to give up any part of that privacy. It doesn’t matter whether it is through trickery, subterfuge, social pressure or
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Maximizing Social Discovery Opportunities on the Social Web 
Jackie Peters via heavyBlog on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Social media has fundamentally changed the way that people discover products, services and content. It’s no longer simply about the old method of product, price and placement, it’s about relevance, value and
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With Twitter, a Desperate Need for Context 
Om Malik via GigaOM on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
The Mumbai News Mentions on Twitter
Increasingly, every time there is an
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Watch Twitter in Real-Time with Tweet Grid 
Mike Templeton via Microblink on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
The implementation of Twitter Search has enabled users to leverage data captured by Twitter in more ways than we can imagine. You can do queries on keywords, get RSS feeds to track discussions and much more, but whe
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Why Mainstream Media Loves Twitter, Flickr and YouTube 
Allen Stern via CenterNetworks on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
From what I can tell, if you purchased a turkey in Silicon Valley over the past month, you were provided a free packet of "Twitter Kool-Aid" with purchase. It seems you can't go two clicks without reading about how Twitter is going to cure cancer, re
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One Year Later, Too Many People Are Still Using TinyURL 
(unknown author) via Louisgray's clipped storie on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
ReadWriteWeb: One year ago link shortening service TinyURL experienced an extended period of down time and we argued that the outage illustrated serious risks associated with the service. One year later, the landscape doesn't look any less bleak. A search of the web turns up complaint after complaint after complaint about TinyURL bei
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Mumbai Attacks: Twitter Adds to the Noise but Is Still Valuable 
Svetlana Gladkova via Profy on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
As you have certainly heard already, a new terrorist attack took place in Mumbai, India with terrorists attacking multiple locations, including hotels, café, and a hospital. The attack left more than
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I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source 
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.
Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to
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When capillaries become arteries 
JP via confused of calcutta on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
It takes a tragedy to bring other messages home. My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their loved ones in Mumbai, as also those whose family or friends were injured.
This is what the news looks like on Twitter, using Tweet Grid:
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Tarpipe Publishes Updates, Content to Social Sites via Email [Webapps] 
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Web site Tarpipe streamlines your updates to various social web sites, creating simple or complex workflows to update several buckets in one fell swoop. Let's say you want to do something simple like upload a new picture to Flickr and then tweet about it
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Not Everyone Reads Your Tweets, and That's Okay! 
Jesse Stay via louisgray.com on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)As founder of SocialToo, a startup that has
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Is it Time to Scale Back Your Social Networks? 
Scott Meis via Social Media Snippets on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Quantity then. Quality now.
In the past, communications were structured around a much more static, shotgun approach where traditional media channels such as TV, radio and print were used to deliver messages to as many people as possible. The Web has shifted this model to a much more dynamic, dialogue where our real-time conversations allow us to connect with tar
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PicClick: Look for What You're Looking for 
Rick Turoczy via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
We all use search engines day in and day out to find things that we're seeking. And while traditional searching techniques are great, sometimes you can't quite put what you want into words. But you're sure that you'll know it when you see it. At those times, a picture is worth a thousand word-based sea
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