Screen shot: Jolicloud aims to steal Chrome OS's netbook thunder
Computer World (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Jolicloud netbook OS will be more "Mac-like" than Google Chrome OS's "generic" user interface, says CEO Tariq Krim.
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Top 10 News Readers Judged by Mashable Readers
Mashable (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader . Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to vote in this week’s Lunchtime...
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Fingertips, a personalised online newspaper that’s not so personal
TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[UK] London-based Fingertips.net lets users create their own personalised online newspaper "from the publications they want". Or at least that's the claim. The reality is that the RSS-driven service isn't nearly as customisable as its many competitors, such as start page Netvibes or more similar aggregators like Meehive . Instead, Fingertips only enables users to pick from around 300 sources...
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Elevator Pitch – Spectives from Amsterdam
TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[Holland] This week we've got Rutger van Waveren, Founder of Spectives.com, doing an elevator pitch. Spectives.com allows people to use images to keep track of the latest news from their favorite sites. Think of Spectives as a visual RSS, Alltop, or as a kind of Netvibes for visual news. Unlike RSS where you have to scan text headlines for information, you can scan images. Great for a lot of visual...
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Netvibes Gets Even More Spicy with Wasabi Beta
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Netvibes has come out with a new beta called Wasabi
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Jolicloud Steps Up Its Game As Pre-Launch Excitement For Chrome OS Builds
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud , that other OS for netbooks that is completely built for people who live and work on the Web from the ground up, has in...
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Build your own daily newspaper with Fingertips
TechDigest (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Similar in practice to news sites such as NetVibes and Meehive, Fingertips hope that its simpler interface will find favour with news readers worldwide.
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Link Module from Netvibes Changed : Thumbnail ON of OFF
DigiCMB (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
On some of our Public Pages, like CMB and EduCMB we placed several Link Modules to show links to content on the website of our library. The Link Module then displays a Thumbnail from that page/site. A few day ago suddenly the thumbnails for links within the www.rug.nl domain were replaced with little indecent pictures, clearly not coming from this university portal. Quick contact with Netvibes , resulted...
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Grab Your Beta Invites To Wasabi, Netvibe’s Powerful New Stream Reader
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We recently reviewed Wasabi, Netvibes' powerful new stream reader which consolidates news feeds, blogs, Twitter and Facebook streams, email, and more in an extremely manageable interface. The site entered private beta recently and we have 200 invites for TechCrunch readers. To get an invite, visit Wasabi and enter the code "WASABITC." As we wrote earlier, Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini demonstrated...
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Social Reporting the Internet Governance Forum
Tim's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Tomorrow morning I’m heading out to Egypt to join the Diplo/IKM team to help facilitate youth-led social reporting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). We’ll be tweeting on the #igf09 tag, blogging on the Diplo Internet Governance Ning, and hopefully bringing it all together with some live-blogging, video interviews and webcasting on this NetVibes page. To support [...]
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Netvibes Releases Wasabi Edition beta
Buckycomputing (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Netvibes releases the Wasabi Edition of their popular web application
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Fast-growing Curation Service Posterous Now Publishing Real-Time Feeds
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Blogging and stuff sharing service Posterous.com now publishes real-time PubSubHubbbub feeds for every site in its domain, the company announced yesterday in a blog post about a number of major revisions to the site. That means that real-time savvy content aggregators will receive Posterous content almost instantly after its published, instead of waiting as much as half an hour to poll the site for...
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How to Create a Blog Widget For Twitter Lists
Techie Buzz (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
You can easily create a widget for any public Twitter list and integrate the widget in your blog, website or social networking profiles. Twitter has an official list widget that let's anyone display a public Twitter list as widgets. You might also like: Twitter to Allow Grouping of Friends With Lists Twitter Releases Lists (Beta) Create Magazine Style Widgets For Your Blog Using Netvibes Twitter Widget...
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Create a Visual Attention Heatmap of Your Blog Using Feng-GUI
Techie Buzz (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Feng-GUI can be used to generate a visual heatmap of your blog for free. You need to just upload an image and the heatmap will be generated instantly. You might also like: Create Mobile Versions of Your Blog/Website with MoFuse Create Magazine Style Widgets For Your Blog Using Netvibes Microsoft Bing Launches A Unique Visual Search Create A Twitter ShoutBox For Your Website
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Straw Man Argument About Enterprise 2.0 Does Not Fly
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dennis Howlett sure got the attention of the Enterprise 2.0 community today with his continued skepticism about "social" technologies and their place in the business world. Here's one of his quotes from his post yesterday: Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate : Why am I not surprised? I've argued for years that the notion of anything that has 'social' attached to its moniker is about as welcome...