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Google adds RSS Reader

Nice.

From: The RSS Weblog

This should come as a surprise to nobody. Google now allows the ability to add any RSS feed to its new personalized home page - Google Fusion.

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Blinksale for your invoices

This sort of thing is definitely the long tail doing web applications. What a cool phenomena...

From: Signal vs. Noise

Building of Basecamp Workshop alumnus and Ruby on Rails devotees Firewheel Design serve up Blinksale — an elegant way to send and track invoices. It’s web-based, fast, and useful. It’s also built by a small team of 3 who understand the value of good …

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Why the big teams can't hit the right notes

I have definitely seen the difference in productivity between engineers firsthand. I have also worked on both large and small teams, and while I know that small is the new black, I really don't know that there is anything intrinsically superior about a team of 4 when compared to a team of 15. I understand that hiring 15 rockstars is harder, that motivating 15 people is harder, that coordinating and making 15 people productive is harder. But if you get it all right, why couldn't that team be 4 times more productive, making superior software? Don't some problems just require a team of that size- or even a lot larger?

From: Signal vs. Noise

Joel hits a high note himself documenting the 1:10 productivity difference between crap and rock star programmers in Hitting the High Notes. But what’s even more interesting about his argument is the thesis that its not just about productivity, it’s about …

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Yeah, it's Vista

Sadly, the video simply doesn't compare to 'Dance monkeyboy, dance' or 'Developers, developers, developers, developers...'

From: Download Squad

Filed under: Windows, Commercial, News, Microsoft, OS Updates

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Bulletin: FeedDemon 1.6 Beta Released; Still Feels Like Outlook

I couldn't agree more- three pane readers simply don't do it for me. A couple of requirements:

1) Its gotta be in the browser- thats where I view and interact with web content.

2) Its gotta be HTML- that is easy to read.

3) Its gotta handle read/unread automatically, so I don't have to miss or reread things.

Since I work at Onfolio, its not strange to note that I think the Onfolio newspaper view satisfies all of these requirements!

From: BASEMENT.ORG

My feed reader of choice – Bradsoft’s (now Newsgator’s) FeedDemon – has gone to beta yet again. This time, the big feature is syncing with Newsgator’s web services so your stuff stays in sync wherever you log in. The beta is only available for …

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Bloglines down?

When dissing client software, its worth remembering that with web based apps as they exist today, availability is only as good as the provider's service level- hardware, software, and other failures mean exposure for you.

That said, apps like salesforce.com (which is a critical business system for many companies) see continued success, so web based apps are clearly capable of providing availability that is acceptable to even sensitive customers...

From: Lifehacker

Bloglines, the web-based RSS reader that I use to get Lifehacker written each day seems to have lost all my feed subscriptions - just an empty list.

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Gaping security hole in Greasemonkey 0.4?

Uh oh...

From: Download Squad

Filed under: News, Internet, Security

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Optimus wireless keyboard wears its functions on its keys - Engadget - www.engadget.com

This keyboard is a brilliant idea- providing a common windows based API for configuring keys (and showing keyboard combinations) would be a great next step. Applications could then display shortcuts, etc...

I'd need it with the MS ergonomic layout, tho...

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Netflix testing movie downloads?

It's a no brainer to support movie downloads now that broadband is so pervasive, and its a great sign if Netflix is actively pursuing this.

From: Download Squad

Filed under: News, Video

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Elliott Back » Longhorn 5203 Screenshots

Longhorn screenshots- as at least one commenter wrote- it is easy to see a little of Windows XP with transparency in these shots. Dig deeper, though, and you can start to see new what is most likely improved handling of the digital media that is coming to rule computers- music, photos, etc...

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