New and notable for June 5th 2011 through June 8th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for June 5th 2011 through June 8th 2011: Ten… Core i5 laptops – If you're looking for a new laptop, this review looks at ten machines, from ten different vendors, running Intel's Sandy Bridge Core i5 chips. Laptops included feature different screen sizes, a range of prices, and a variety [...]

New and notable for May 13th 2011 through May 15th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for May 13th 2011 through May 15th 2011: Belvedere Automates Your Self-Cleaning PC – Lifehacker – Use Belvedere’s friendly interface to create advanced rules to move, copy, delete, rename, or open files based on their name, extension, size, creation date, and more. From Twitter – http://tinyurl.com/3v5batd Google I/O 2011 Keynote [...]

Web curation for March 12th 2010 through March 13th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for March 12th 2010 through March 13th 2010: One on One: Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – bits.blogs.nytimes.com A interview with the Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old Russian founder of Chatroulette who has abandoned high school to travel the world and meet with [...]

Web curation for February 5th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 5th 2010 Forrester tells analysts no more personally-branded research blogs with interesting implications for analyst relations » SageCircle Blog – sagecircle.com Credible reports are coming into SageCircle that Forrester management has set a new policy that analysts with personally-branded research blogs must take the blog down [...]

Web curation for February 2nd 2010 through February 4th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 2nd 2010 through February 4th 2010: Twitter Blog: Flying Around With Hovercards – blog.twitter.com Because many of you use twitter.com to read and write tweets, we’ve been spending some time focusing on ways to improve your experience on the site. Today, we’re introducing a feature [...]

Web curation for January 23rd 2010 through January 24th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 23rd 2010 through January 24th 2010: What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch – mashable.com The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting [...]

Twitter to iCal

I was thinking last night that it might be interesting to take your Tweets and put them on a calendar. Kind of a life stream with calendar integration. I do crazy stuff like this because it helps me learn. I figured since Twitter outputs to RSS I could take that and morph it into an [...]

How I Find People to Follow on Twitter

There are so many articles around about how to find people to follow on Twitter. It is never clear to me why people are searching for some kind of instant friends list. You didn’t show up at school and get a Xeroxed list of people titled “Your New Friends.” It is the same on Twitter. [...]

How to Build An Information Monitor

Many people use various social services to stay in touch and to keep up with current events. One of my current favorites is Twitter. Over a year ago, Twitter turned off a service, called Track, that let you track topics. Track let you ‘follow’ a topic whether it was in your twitter stream of followers [...]

BIL Link Monitor

I recently posted my TED Link Monitor. There is another conference of great minds going on this weekend too, BIL ( Benevolence. Inspiration. Luminary.) So I have built a similar link monitor for capturing Tweets with links. I won’t go into all the details. Basically the same with different search criteria as the TED link. [...]