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Bookmark-Powered Web Discovery from Xmarks

Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

The much loved Firefox add-on for bookmark (and password) synchronization, FoxMarks, will hereafter known as Xmarks. Along with the change of name, comes several other great changes. It now features bookmarks-powered Web discovery. This is analogous to StumbleUpon, but not quite similar to it.

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Keep Track of Your Valuable Comments with BackType

Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

The “Web 2.0″ is often explained as “not a technology, but a radical shift in the outlook and approach towards the internet, enhancing user interaction and engagement, thereby providing a better platform for people to express/make use of.”

Blogs are a phenomenon, so are comments. Once comments were introduced and implemented, you got the chance to talk on anything and everything. Comments enhances the parent post, adding more value to it. Also, commenting is a very good social action.

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Genuine, Legal and FREE Music Sharing on Jamendo

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

Jamendo is a very popular platform for free and genuine music. Artists can upload their tracks and release it under Creative Commons licenses. Users are free to listen or download the tracks. This option for downloading, is what separates Jamendo from to the music discovery sites, which restricts you from downloading the tracks.

Don’t expect to see tracks from popular artists, though. It’s a platform for budding/independent artists, songwriters and music lovers alike. I’ve been enjoying it for a quite while, and some of the tracks there, have made into my favorites list.

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How To Make GMail the Home for All Your Subscriptions

Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

There have been many posts on using GMail as a feed reader. But, it just got better with the a new addition to the insanely successful GMail Labs – Multiple Inboxes. Upon enabling Multiple Inboxes for your account, you get multiple panes on your regular inbox, where you can set to display emails matching specific criteria. This, combined with the unlimited email address tweaks of GMail, provides a simple and efficient way to keep your GMail as the home for all your subscriptions.

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5 Tools to Quickly Share Text, Notes or Code over the Internet

Posted on 24. Feb, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

You are likely to have experienced at least once, a situation, where you had to quickly send some piece of text/code to many people at once. This happens mostly at places like Twitter (with character limits). What if 140 characters (in case of Twitter), was not enough for you to explain something?!

Well, I have a few solutions to this problem. Just fire up a new tab, get to one of the following Clipboards/PasteBoards on the web, type in your info, grab it and send ‘em the link.

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Find Out the Anatomy of a Webiste with Sitonomy

Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Aravind Jose.

Ever wanted to know the stuff that powers up a particular website/blog? The platform? The AD services they use? The analytics tools they use? Well, that’s exactly for what Sitonomy was built for.

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