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Wolfgang investigates RSS reader preferences

Uber-design-hound Wolfgang Bartelme investigates the people’s preferences in RSS readers. Looks there’s no real concensus… huh… a real mix of NetNewsWire, Bloglines, NewsFire, Vienna, Firefox, Safari, Thunderbird, FeedDemon… Wow. And most people tracking between 100-200 feeds.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 29thCategories Asides, Technology1 Comment on Wolfgang investigates RSS reader preferences

Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for WordPress

Need more giblets for your blog? Check out Sociable, the easiest way to get your blog post on Delicious, Fark, Digg… etc… etc…

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 28thCategories Asides, Open source, WordPressTags WordPress1 Comment on Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for WordPress

Flock Ewe Competition

Now that’s one I hadn’t heard before. Flock Ewe. Ha! Those crazy farmer dudes.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 28thCategories Asides, FlockTags FlockLeave a comment on Flock Ewe Competition

Reveal: like exposé for the browser!

A very cool extension created for the Extend Firefox contest… “Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want.”

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 26thCategories Asides, Mozilla, TechnologyTags MozillaLeave a comment on Reveal: like exposé for the browser!

See? The internet does connect people!

…or at least a new study claims as much. According to a report, entitled The Strength of Internet Ties, found that e-mail supplements rather than replaces offline communications.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 26thCategories Asides, Life online, TechnologyLeave a comment on See? The internet does connect people!

iClip Lite? Totally hot!

Wow. I want our topbars to look like this. Yowza! The iClip Lite widget is booteeful. And seems to have won something for it, too!

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 26thCategories Asides, Flock, TechnologyTags FlockLeave a comment on iClip Lite? Totally hot!

MemoryMiner: who, when, where for photos

Heard about MemoryMiner from buddy Blake over at CocoaRadio. Looks very interesting — especially the person-tagging feature and linking them to a specific time period or place and seeing overlaps between people.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 24thCategories Asides, TechnologyLeave a comment on MemoryMiner: who, when, where for photos

Know your type

Red Labor has penned an excellent introduction to typography that’s well worth a read and the looksee.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 24thCategories AsidesLeave a comment on Know your type

OpenRAW – Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation

An effort to open up the proprietary RAW formats used by digitial camera manufacturers. Open source for digital media; a very welcome cause.

technorati tags: openraw, photography

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 23rdCategories Asides, Open source, Technology1 Comment on OpenRAW – Digital Image Preservation Through Open Documentation

Joe Hewitt releases Firebug

Check it out. Firebug, the brainchild of Joe Hewitt, has been released. Asa‘s got more details.

Unknown's avatarAuthor Chris MessinaPosted on Jan 20thCategories Asides, Mozilla, TechnologyTags MozillaLeave a comment on Joe Hewitt releases Firebug

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He is a product guy, friend to startups, proponent of bots and conversational apps and previously worked at Google and Uber.

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