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RSSmeme Launches API, Provides Filtering Tools Galore
 Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Benjamin Golub has been busy. He runs the site RSSmeme, an RSS aggregator that displays the top Shared Items items from Google Reader users. For a brief time, RSSmeme was the only Google Reader aggregator in town aft readmore
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
 Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Mon, 12 May. 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, readmore
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Quake in China
 Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger on Mon, 12 May. 2008
BBC: Twitter and the China earthquake. I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking about it. Now there’s lots of info over on Google News. How did I do that? Well, I readmore
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
 Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done readmore
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Tips for Linking to Google Presentations
 Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 11 May. 2008
If you publish a presentation at Google Docs, you'll receive a simple URL that can be used to view the presentation online. Unfortunately, if you go to that URL without being logged in to a Google Account, Google will ask you to log in: readmore
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Web Service Notifications Outnumber Live Bodies In My E-Mail
 louisgray via louisgray.com on Sun, 11 May. 2008
E-mail used to be about connecting people, regardless of distance. With time, it developed new capabilities - sending attachments of ever greater size, acting as a marketing vehicle, both solicited and otherwise (see: Spam), displaying pictures and HTML, and of course, serving as a repository for status not readmore
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Noam Chomsky at Google (Video)
 Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Noam Chomsky, author and institute professor at the Massachussets Institute of Technology readmore
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Do Companies Need Social Media Managers?
 Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 12 May. 2008
There are few institutions in the modern world that are not being transformed today by social media. Shel Israel, Global Neighborhoods, 5 New Social Media Turn-ons for me. Encouraging use and engagement with [social] tools is an area that all organizations fi readmore
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Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo)
 Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Mon, 12 May. 2008
I’m going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAf readmore
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Michael Pollan Speaks In Defense Of Food [Food]
 Gina Trapani via Lifehacker on Sun, 11 May. 2008
Author of In Defense of Food Michael Pollan explained his "eater's manifesto" at Google last month. Watch the video to hear Pollan discuss his seven word philosopy (& readmore
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RSSMeme ‘OverHauled’, Releases API
 Paul Glazowski via Mashable! on Sun, 11 May. 2008
RSSmeme, a project that has been described by our own Mark Hopkins as a “less colorful competitor” to readmore
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The Evolution of the Press Release
 Guest Author via TechCrunch on Sun, 11 May. 2008
Editor’s note: The press release is the least loved document in the media universe. We get way too many here at TechCrunch, and some bloggers equate them to s readmore
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Yahoo Search's Differential Features
 Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 11 May. 2008
Yahoo's strategy to increase the search market share is to add features that can't be found at Google or somewhere else. The problem is that these features need to be distinctive and useful enough to attract the attention and make people switch to Yahoo or at least use it a secondary search engine.The first innovative feature added by Yahoo was readmore
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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax
 (author unknown) via Coding Horror on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub XML doesn't suck; JSON just sucks a lot less. Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved an readmore
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No More iPhones at Apple Store - 3G Imminent?
 John Biggs via TechCrunch on Sun, 11 May. 2008
The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined readmore
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There Can Be Only One (Winner)
 drew via Official ReadBurner Blog on Sun, 11 May. 2008
So as you know, ReadBurner had a contest to get an official widget. It was a very tough decision. We poured over one’s and one’s of entries, and we fought over who would reign supreme. We’re not kidding, it was tough. Al readmore
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Google Friend Connect Tries to Strangle the Social
 Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Later tonight Google will launch a new service called Friend Connect, aiming to "bring the social" to any page around the web. Unfortunately the service takes readmore
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Working with Apple Tech Support
 (author unknown) via Seth's Blog on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Shared by Michael Great tips Sixteen tips for getting your Mac or iPhone fixed: The contact number is (800) 275 2273 While you're on hold, go to Google and type: Troubleshoot Mac xxx, where xxx represents the error message you got or the sparsest description of what won't work. If those links don't help you, visit the readmore
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Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language [Wikipedia]
 Gina Trapani via Lifehacker on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like "w readmore
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Why You Shouldn’t Hesitate To Ask Twitter For Help
 Corvida via SheGeeks on Mon, 12 May. 2008
Today, tornadoes tore across the state of Georgia. I’m currently residing in Dublin, GA for familial reason readmore
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