Comments on: If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:02:50 +0000

Thanks for this. Feed Informer was perfect for something I needed to do at work.

By: Talking Books Librarian

Talking Books Librarian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:41:11 +0000

I find FriendFeed almost overwhelming… all the feeds from all my friends = information overload for me. Every now and then I glance at my friends’ friendfeeds, but that’s about it.

By: EmbeddedLibrarian

EmbeddedLibrarian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:39:51 +0000

i hope you’ll post about Second Life if you get into it…we could really use a good explanation of the basics and you’re a prime candidate to provide that!

By: Paul R Pival

Paul R Pival — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:25:58 +0000

Most of these were new to me, so thanks for taking the time, Meredith. I thought Feed Informer was new, but then remembered it used to be known as feeddigest, which I have used before and liked. Drop.io is also on my “to explore” list. I’m all about keyboard shortcuts these days, exploring things like Quicksilver and Text Expander for the Mac, and a Text Expander clone on the office PC (can’t remember the name just now). Oh, and Launchy for the PC (somewhat similar to QS).

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:52:56 +0000

Don’t know how I missed Remember the Milk, but thanks for sharing! I could be the last to discover Digsby (http://www.digsby.com), but that’s my latest find.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:52:43 +0000

I was probably deleting my FriendFeed around the time you were setting yours up. I'm not sure why exactly, just that it was something that I wasn't paying much attention to that was at the same time making a quick and easy feed of virtually everything I did online. Nothing wrong with FriendFeed, it just wasn't for me. One "new to me" site is coComment which I tried again thanks to you and Greg Schwartz doing the comment challenge thing. I tried it when it first come out and found it too tricky to use. Now I quite like it. I also got going on Tumblr recently. That site isn't really new, but it seemed like a good place to park some stuff that catches my eye--things that I want to highlight more than just shoving them into del.icio.us, but that don't fit my "real" blog.

By: Laura Baas

Laura Baas — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:56:05 +0000

Thanks for this post; 280 slides was a new one for me. Today I just read about a tool to find more resources based on a particular Del.icio.us account, called inSuggest. It's really easy to use (kind of like Stumble-Upon but based on a Del.icio.us account. I also like Blist, labeled as the world's first online social database (I posted about it back in February). Plus, they keep adding features like the ability to import from Excel. A few other tools that I've heard of recently but haven't had too much time to play around with include: Drop.io (filesharing), iBreadcrumbs (records the Web pages visited, bookmarks them, and provides organization and collaboration tools), Snapcasa (easy screenshot tool), and, of course, there's Acrobat.com. I look forward to continuing to read everyone else's suggestions!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:33:53 +0000

I've been meaning to mention Jott to more people, and your post inspired me! I've done a quick write up at http://dotlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/06/nice-tech-toy.html.

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:43:05 +0000

I had heard of some of these, but not all. The better part is that this was just the post I needed on just the right morning to get me to do something with these tools. Thanks for the nudge!

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:36:16 +0000

I just discovered FriendFeed too! There are so many new things happening out there, I think it’s impossible for one person to keep up with them all, so I rely on my network to help me informed of the cool things they find. Right now I’m diggin’ Plurk.com (sort of like twitter, but more visual), I’ve also played with Twine, Zigtag, and BrightKite.