I’m generally having one of those days where you sit down to do “something” on the computer and three hours have passed and you’ve done a lot but not the “something.”  I can generally avoid this problem because I have a bunch of online tools that help me do it, but today I’m working in someone else account and those tools aren’t available as easily.[^1] That’s when it dawned on me, when did my bookmarks toolbar become so really, really important? Read more…

I’ve been trying out a couple of what you would call social feed aggregators. Yeah, I know. Ugh. But what friendfeed.com and socialthing.com are trying to accomplish is just exactly that—getting all your information about friends on all your various social sites (think Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Shelfari, Blogger, etc). You want to keep up with all the news and activity from your friends on those sites; wouldn’t it be nice to do it in one place, right?

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