- Del.icio.us: great way to bookmark sites and carry those bookmarks around with you no matter what computer you're at. There's an extension for Firefox that allows you to easily tag, or apply a one word label to, any page you visit. So if I read a page that's about politics that I want to save, I simply tag it with the label "politics". Now, anytime I go back to del.icio.us, I can see all my pages with the "politics" tag. Not only that: you can share tags and pages with others in the del.icio.us community. As the community grows, all these people tagging things is starting to form a sort of web that is contextualizing the web spontaneously! There's other cool things you can do, too: Matt told me about using a special tag with which you label pages you want to follow up on. So anytime I visit a page I want to return to in order to read more in depth, I tag it with "toread". I have a live bookmark in my toolbar that is served by an RSS feed from del.icio.us of all my "toread" items. Whenever I want to read something, I always have a queue of interesting items to go to! And as soon as I'm done reading it, I simply remove the "toread" tag (I'd like to come up with a one click way to do this).
- Flickr: I've been into flickr for some time, but it has a slick user interface and great features. You can blog with it, catalog and tag pictures, share with friends, etc. Just a great place to have pictures overall - worth the money, I assure you.
- Oyogi: A great resource for asking questions. There are powerful search features that allow you to leverage the knowledge of the internet community, rather than just the documents it's generated. Lots of ajaxy stuff along with a great Javascript chat client.
- Runbox: I keep track of 10 different email accounts here. Their UI could use some work but overall it's a pretty nice system. 10 gigs of email storage should keep me busy.
- Drudge Report: I know, I know... but it's a great way to keep up with the mainstream. If you're into that thing.
- FeedLounge: Since Matt has ended his OneFeed service, I tried out some free feed reading systems but they just didn't cut it. The UI for FeedLounge is acceptably slick (again, ajax) and I love the tagging! Alex King also is letting the users vote on new features. Seems very tidy for such a new service. All we need now is a merging of FeedLounge tags with Del.icio.us tags.
Just so people's feelings don't get hurt, this post is not about blogs - it was more about impersonal services I use.
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