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Readability & TBuzz

Nov 23rd, 2009
by pollyalida.
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readabilityReadability, from Arc90, removes the clutter from busy Web pages, making them much easier to read. On the Readability website, set your preferences for how you’d like to view web pages – font size, margin and page style. Then add the customized bookmarklet to your browser’s toolbar. When you come upon a cluttered page, click the bookmarklet and get a nicely cleaned up page, ready to read or print.  (via Tech Chicks Tips)
tbuzzTBuzz, also from Arc90, helps you quickly post a note about a web page to Twitter, while showing other Twitter comments about that page.
I’m curious to check out their other projects on their labs page.

ALA Photo & Tweet Tracker

Jul 10th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Not at ALA Annual in Chicago? Want to track what’s happening? Check out this super handy ALA2009 tracker page created by Heather Devine. And check out her blog, flexyourinfo.com, to find out more about the tracker. Great work! Wish I had your mad skilz…. :-)

Twitter Fantastico

Mar 9th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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Twitter Fantastico is a  great set of Greasemonkey scripts adding some nifty features to Twitter. I was looking for something that would add a “retweet this” button to the end of tweets. I found that and more!

Twitter Fantastico:

  • highlights your tweets
  • highlights @ replies
  • adds ‘retweet this’ button
  • opens a reply box right below the tweet you’re replying to
  • scroll down the page and the next page of tweets are displayed automatically

Though lots of people love clients like TweetDeck and Twhirl to follow twitter, I usually use twitter directly from the website. And the Twitter Fantastico scripts are a great way to enhance that experience.

Peanut Butter Recalls – Widgets & Twitter

Feb 14th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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The US Centers for Disease Control has a widget for to help consumers keep up to date on the Food & Drug Administration recalls of peanut butter products. You can add the widget to your web pages. Or add it to your own iGoogle home page.  The FDA is also sending out updates via twitter.  It’s great to see more and more content being made available using these kinds of tools.

FDA Product Recall List


found via buffyjhamilton on twitter

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

Feb 6th, 2009
by pollyalida.
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If you’re using Facebook and haven’t paid attention to who can see what you’re posting, take a look at this great post by Nick O’Neill on 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know. Facebook’s privacy settings are a bit confusing to navigate, the links in this post will help you get to the right places to manage your settings.

The 10 main points of the article were highlighted by Elyssa Kroski on iLibrarian:

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/10-privacy-settings-every-facebook-user-should-know/

iLibrarian » 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know via kwout

This is great timing as I prepare materials for a class tomorrow on Personal Learning Networks that will cover Twitter, Facebook and other social networking tools

Qwitter: Catches Twitter Quitters

Oct 17th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Qwitter does one thing – it tells you when someone has dropped you on twitter. And it tells you the last post you wrote before they dropped you. Kind like a best friend who finds out why your other best friend is mad at you.

Wonderful little tools like this remind me of certain kitchen gadgets that do just one thing, but do it so well that I wouldn’t want to be without them. Like the little thing that plucks the hull out of a strawberry.

I hate to admit, I don’t usually notice if people drop me, but maybe I just haven’t been offensive enough for anyone to drop me?  And I’m not going to try that route! Anyways, anyone want to drop me, just to test this out?? Twitter on…  :-)

(via: Mashable)