Like any true geek, I couldn’t resist trying out the new Google Reader over the weekend. The short verdict? It’s not a bad first attempt, although it loads a bit slow with my 238 feeds. On the other hand, as my days have gotten busier and busier of late, I’ve come to appreciate more and…
Did we really need another IM service? Of all the many things Google could build with all the IPO money they’ve gotten recently is this really one of the things that should be high on the list? Are they in cahoots with the makers of Trillian, who’s free version won’t work with the Jabber protocol,…
Seen in the Plus! Edition of Langalist, a service called ScrappyGoo: ScrappyGoo lets you search Google News and generate a unique RSS feed of your results. This persistent news search delivery is offered as a free service. Tags: GoogleNews RSS ScrappyGoo
Geek News Central has a post about unsubscribing to a handful of feeds that are both partial feeds, and filled with Google Ads. He was nice enough not to name names but I’m sure that any of you who subscribe to said feeds (Cough, cough, Lockergnome, cough cough..)know exactly who he’s talking about. Seriously, with…
This seems like a pretty good reason to stay away from this one. Of course, I’ve never really been all that impressed with web accelerators anyway, so I wasn’t planning on installing it anyway. Tags: Google
Scoble has taken notice of his apparent contradiction and is promising a detailed post that will give us insight to how his views have evolved concerning Autolink and Greasemonkey. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt at this point, and await the explanation. Meanwhile the Peer Pressure Blog notes the likely arms race that…