Tammy Green » Entries tagged with "bloglines"
How can you consolidate when your friends & contacts are strewn far & wide?
On the Web, everyone upgrades at different rates. You find a service that works, a site that’s comforting, a go-to bookmark that you can lay hands on and you stick with it until you hear about something better, something that solves a problem you didn’t know you had, something cool that your friends are trying and you want to be a part of it. And then you move. Sorta. You can’t completely ditch the old stuff or … Read entire article »
Filed under: Technology Shift
Why I don’t keep all my technical eggs in one basket
I use Google as my primary e-mail address, and for their calendar and collaborative documents & spreadsheets services. However, there’s a reason I still have a hotmail account, a bloglines set-up and other goods & services spread out over the web instead of using a vertical provider — I expect failure. Don’t think I’m down on the Web because I’m the biggest fan the Internet has. I’ve just worked on the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
RSS Adoption: Examining An Old Failure
In late 2003 I became a raving RSS addict. If I could find a feed, I subscribed to it. If I couldn’t find a feed, I found a way to scrape the content I wanted. I even contacted people directly and told them to provide content in RSS format. There was no stopping me. I’m still an addict — I read over 200 feeds on a daily basis. Needless to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
Bloglines has improved!
You can now rename folders. I’m delighted beyond measure. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
Bloglines Keeps Improving
Bloglines now tells me how many unread and read messages I have for each feed and for each category that I’ve set. It will also tell me, in the browser title, the same ratio for all my subscriptions. If I don’t have read messages saved, it will spare me the extra number. Lovely — now my post-hording tendencies are made more explicit. There are also a set of fancy new ho tkeys that I haven’t had … Read entire article »
Filed under: Usability