ClearContent http://www.clearcontent.com/blog Building Content and Community for Companies Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:41:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Tools for Tracking Top Blogs on the Net http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/2009/01/02/tools-for-tracking-top-blogs-on-the-net/ http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/2009/01/02/tools-for-tracking-top-blogs-on-the-net/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:41:00 +0000 Joel Fugazzotto http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/?p=72 ReadWriteWeb has evaluated six services that can be used to identify top blogs in any niche. Using all six services, you can determine the highest ranked blogs in a particular topic area. ReadWriteWeb discusses the pro and cons of each of the services for finding the tops blogs you might be seeking. The services evaluated include: Technorati, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, AideRSS, Ask.com and Blogsearch.

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Gmail Tasks Window

Gmail Tasks Window

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft Live Labs demonstrates the power of Photosynth:

Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.

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]]> http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-setup-an-rss-reader/feed/ 1 The ABCs of RSS (Part Two) http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/2007/04/17/the-abcs-of-rss-part-two/ http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/2007/04/17/the-abcs-of-rss-part-two/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:23:41 +0000 Joel Fugazzotto http://www.clearcontent.com/blog/2007/04/17/the-abcs-of-rss-part-two/ John Mahoney over at the DigitalEdge Blog and DigitalEdge TV produced a second show of Practical RSS. I referenced his first show in an earlier post which explained the fundamentals of RSS and its benefits for the average user. The second show teaches how to use Google’s Feed Reader with FireFox and RSS to track news events. John also demonstrates how to create custom news feeds on specific topics.

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