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Official Gmail Blog: Four changes to Gmail contacts
Official Gmail Blog: Four changes to Gmail contacts – I meant to blog this a while back, but Gmail finally adding contact merging was infinitely needed. Glad to see it’s there.
Tagged contacts, gmail
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LendAround
LendAround – I got an email from LendAround, who saw my earlier comments on borrowing websites and gave me an invite to the beta site. Like many of the other applications out there, they are only used for a dedicated … Continue reading
Tagged borrowing, lendaround, loaning, sharing
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WhiteHouse.gov’s New Robots.txt
WhiteHouse.gov’s New Robots.txt – geeky, but this perfectly symbolizes the differences between the two administrations
Tagged forfb, obama, robotstxt, transparency, whitehouse
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Welcome to the Washington State Department of Transportation
Welcome to the Washington State Department of Transportation – so just about all public institutions are far removed from those they serve. The WSDOT is a rare exception, and they do an excellent job. I read their blog, which is … Continue reading
Tagged webpresence, withit, wsdot
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good design: laundry detergent
in response to those who thing I only (and always) critisize the design of everything, I present an example of something extremely well designed: the lids of liquid laundry detergent jugs. I would link to something, but I can’t seem … Continue reading
Tagged design, laundrydetergent
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the best thing that could have happened to newspapers…
…was the creation of the internet. The web’s been around well over a decade and practically every newspaper seems to still think it was the worst thing that could have happened to them. The important thing about newspapers – as … Continue reading
Tagged news, newspapers, paradigm, print
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geoupdater
geoupdater – does something very similar to what I was working on. I’ve got my location set in FireEagle, which I update via the site and Dopplr. I also found an app that turns FireEagle into geoRSS which allows me … Continue reading
Tagged facebook, fireagle, friendfeed, georss, maps
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Hossein Derakhshan arrested in Iran
Hossein (link goes to his English blog) is known as the father of the Persian blogosphere. I met him a couple of years ago (old link takes a while to load), not too difficult since he also lived in Toronto. … Continue reading
Tagged freedomofthepress, hoder, hosseinderakhshan, iran, persian
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borrowing websites
Goal: find an online tool which allows me to list things that others (friends and neighbours) can borrow, and let me view things that others have listed This doesn’t seem like an impossible goal. One problem is that most of … Continue reading
keeping tracks of books read
So for the past few months I have been keeping track of the books I finished reading. Just a text file with ISBNs and dates. I finally got around to deciding how to expose that online, the choices being to … Continue reading
Tagged amazon, books, librarything, reading, shelfari
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