Week 6. Thing 13, Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is a pretty good idea- especially the ability to categorize bookmarks and sharing the categorization among the users. The ability to manage bookmarks is not a new idea however; several other sites (including Google) offer this service.

The user categories are very useful and help to discover new sites based on what you're interested in. Also, Del.icio.us is a very easy to use site and it works well.

Week 5, Thing 12, Rollyo

My post this time is about Rollyo, a site to create your own search tool for searching various websites that you specify. This could be very useful if you just want to search on a few sites for something instead of searching the entire web.

I created a roll called Technology Reviews, which searches reviews on several popular computer magazine's sites.

Personally, unless I was having trouble finding something or it was a special circumstance, I wouldn't bother using this. While it doesn't waste time, it doesn't save enough to make it worthwhile.

Week 5, Thing 11, LibraryThing

My blog this time is about LibraryThing. This is an online site that allows you to categorize your books, and view the list anywhere, even on a phone. It also gives recommendations about other books that you may like.

Speaking from experience, it is all too easy to forget what books you have, and this is MUCH easier than searching through a shelf that's full of books.

I think I'll be using this program a lot from now on.

Week 5, Thing 10, Fun with image generators

This is a fun week, so my blog this time is about online photo generators. I chose a "posh" photo generator, and here's my photo.

I think that this generator is a cool piece of software.

Week 4, Thing 9, Finding RSS feeds

I found the Bloglines search easiest to use, because I've used it before.
Feedster, though, is nice because of the number of its RSS feeds.

There were a couple of other nice tools too. If you're looking for something in particular, the best ting to do would be to use all of them.

Week 4, Thing 8, RSS Feeds

Ok, my post for this thing is about RSS feeds. While I have known about these feeds for a while, I have never really used them, preferring to just navigate to the website. This is a bit time consuming however. One neat thing about RSS feeds is the fact that they auto-update, keeping you from having to find the most recent articles. One nice feature of Bloglines is the search feature, which makes it very easy to discover and subscribe to new feeds.

My opinion: RSS feeds are pretty cool, so I'll probably start using them more.