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Steve says...

Is RSS dead in the age of the stream? Not for me. I still use Google Reader a lot. It's how I keep ahead. And while I still believe RSS won't catch on with the mainstream it's still a very important technology to watch. Emerging services like PubSubHubbub will help RSS will get faster and power new real-time services.

If you use RSS chances are you're a news junkie. One of my favorite complementary services is Instapaper, which allows you to save articles for future reading on any mobile device.

Over the weekend Marco Arment posted a killer update to the code that makes it easy to bookmark any article in Google Reader directly off the desktop and/or mobile version. This works faster and better than other solutions. Not only does this save a news item for future reading but Instapaper will also follow the link to the original source too and cache it. You can learn more here.

Filed under: bookmarklets, Google Reader, Instapaper, RSS, tools

Steve says...

Want to know what's cool and emerging? Me too. That's why I subscribe to dozens of blog feeds from cool companies large and small. They include all the Google blogs, the Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebbook blog and many more.

I have decided to share these with you by rolling them up into single feed, which you can browse or subscribe or even download the OPML file.  I have also published a list of all 60 blogs that are in this bundle below. I am constantly adding/removing companies from this list so please leave a comment if I omitted some big ones. (Note, some are Edelman clients.)

Also, I might at some point port the feed over to Twitter via Twitterfeed and/or add it to post to my Linkstream site so that we can discuss these items as well.

 

Filed under: blogs, Curation, mashups, Resources, RSS

garry says...

Update: We've been added as an official site, so now it's even easier! You don't have to do the stuff below anymore.

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We're big fans of Google Reader. It's one of the easiest ways to view everyone's stuff fast. Yesterday, Google Reader added a new Send To feature that lets you post to your favorite places right from Google Reader while you're looking at stuff.

By popular demand, now you can use this new Send To feature with Posterous. Go to Settings > Send To in Google Reader and under "Don't see your favorite site?" click Create Custom Link.

Then copy and paste the values below into the custom link fields:

Name
URL
Icon URL

It should look like this:

Click Save and you're done.

Now when browsing Google Reader, you'll see a "Send To" option for Posterous at the bottom of each reader entry like so:

When you click Posterous, you'll be sent to our "Share on Posterous" page that works like our Bookmarklet. We've also revamped the way the bookmarklet handles text posts so if you don't select any text on a page, we'll still try to extract the meatiest part of the content of a page.

Of course, you can always still just click "Email" to post@posterous.com, and that will still work just great too.

Feel free to email us at help@posterous.com if you run into any problems.

Filed under: New Features

Steve says...

Posterous continuous its innovation march, letting you instantly send items to Google Reader with a single click. Don't count RSS readers out yet. I suspect Google Reader will soon add features that make it easier to read and reply to Tweets too.

Filed under: google, Google Reader, Lifestreaming, posterous, RSS

Steve says...

Here's a nifty little Firefox add-on, which I discovered via MakeUseOf. It's called gReactions.

The extension adds a button underneath every item in Google Reader that says "Show Comments." Click on it and instantly you can browse incoming links from Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg and more. In addition, for some blogs, you can view comments right in Google Reader using gReactions.

Neat tool. (Disclosure: Pizza Hut, which is mentioned in the screen shot, is a client of Zeno Group, a Daniel J. Edelman company - where I work)

Filed under: Friendfeed, gadgets, google, lifehacks, RSS, Twitter

Steve says...

Call me crazy, but I love email. I tend to gravitate to services that integrate with it. For example, like Jesse Stay, I often use Gmail to interact with Friendfeed. For the same reason, I am back with Backpack since I can shuttle to-do's back and forth via email. Evernote too works great with email for notes and other data. But this just scratches the surface - email is also a massive social network that's just waiting to be unleashed through APIs. Here's a taste.

A little app called Twitter Gadget is showing us the future of web services by mashing up your Twitter and Gmail contact social graphs. Once you add it to Gmail (instructions are on their site) it plops a nice Twitter client right inside Gmail. But there's much more. It also lets you selectively share tweets with any individual who is in your Friends group in Google Contacts. Your friends need to have the app installed in Gmail as well. If they do, they will see shared tweets inside Twitter Gadget the next time they fire it up. It's kinda like Google Reader shared items for Twitter.

This is a very clever way to combine two social graphs in a way that provides a real benefit to users. As our social connections become scattered among different services, I hope that we'll see more tools like these in the months head.

Filed under: APIs, Gmail, Google, lifehacks, mashups, social graph, Twitter

Steve says...

Here's how I've set up my lifestreaming flow...

Capture:: This is where I collect my inspiration for content and create it. I am increasingly using Friendfeed as a front-end filter for all my social network content. I read feeds in Google Reader. I build mindmaps using Mindmeister and Mindnode. Finally, I create media on my iPhone - text using WriteRoom, sound using the voice recorder, and photos/videos using the camera.

Process:: Everything lands in Gmail and/or Evernote. I email feed items to myself that get tagged. I subscribe to certain Friendfeed lists that I have set up in Gmail. Finally, I am experimenting using Zemanta to find related content.

Share and Connect:: Then I email items into Posterous - text, images, audio, videos. These automatically populate certain social networks depending on the address I send them to (this is a Posterous feature). Comments come back to me in Gmail both on the site and through searches. I learn what you have to say and then that too gets stored.

What do you think?

 

Filed under: Lifestreaming, Tools

garry says...

Preach on, brother.