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6 Reasons Why Plurk Beats Twitter - 0 views

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commenting sharing conversation features comparison Plurk Twitter

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  • Compared to Twitter it’s similar but different. Most of all Plurk doesn’t cease to introduce innovations.
  • post is about: differences and new features.
  • updates (plurks) appear on a horizontal timeline
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  • scroll through the timeline you will pass date borders and scrolling over a plurk you’ll see exactly when it was posted.
  • timeline can be filtered for all plurks, my plurks, private (plurks only you received) or responded (plurks you responded to).
  • Updates appear as small previews with a minimized profile photo on the left and the number of replies on the right.
  • To view the whole post you move the mouse over the preview and to view replies you click on it.
  • biggest difference to Twitter
  • there are actual conversations going on since replies are associated with the original update
  • comments are not lost within a long list of chronical updates.
  • next best difference to Twitter. Plurk recognizes links to YouTube, Flickr, TinyPic, ImageShack, and Photobucket and includes them in your update.
  • Plurk now offers status updates for Twitter, Friendster, Facebook, and Multiply.
  • Unfortunately, the integration is only one way
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louisgray.com: Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS - 0 views

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shared by LeisHowI on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
  • using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core, but layering on intelligence that learns from you, including your reading patterns, to personalize your information waterfall.
  • Similar to Google Reader shared notes, you can make notes on any item within Feedly and share it on "The Wall".
  • From the article, you can:
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  • Save it for later reading.
  • Annotate it
  • Recommend it to friends
  • Send a note about the article using your Twitter acount.
  • Preview it, giving a glimpse of how it looks from the source site.
  • Due to Feedly's tight integration with Google Reader, the items in the What's New page are segmented by topic,
  • gathered from your folders in Google Reader.
  • The Wall can act as your social springboard to both shared items in Google Reader and Twitter updates.
  • Feedly has developed an extensive tie-in with Google Search and Google Reader on day one.
  • Searches for more frequent terms, like Apple and Yahoo!, had their expected 1000+ results,
  • in reverse chronological order.
  • The goal? To bring a new, graphical, view of feeds, via Google Reader, and add multiple social layers on top of what's already recognized as the world's most-popular online RSS engine.
  • But unlike Google Reader, you can highlight the portion you're commenting on, and make notes,
  • select the desired text, and an option comes up to either "search related articles" or "highlight".
  • selected text is in fact highlighted, and you can add a comment.
  • Tweeting an article is similarly easy
  • click "tweet"
  • opens up with the headline, an automatically generated TinyURL, and a note on how many characters I have before running out of Twitter's 140 character limit.
  • automatically shows contacts you have in your GMail address book
  • Feedly is 100% synchronized with Google Reader.
  • move a blog from one folder to another in Google Reader? You can do that through Feedly.
  • Feedly essentially brings you all the aspects of Google Reader we've grown accustomed to, but displays them in a new, friendly, visual way, while extending the feed universe out to Twitter and e-mail, and adding social elements.
  • should you get bogged down with too many updates, feeds are flagged warm or cool based on your reading behavior and how often you mark them as favorites.
  • If you're the type of RSS power user who wants to read hundreds of items through aggressive keyboard navigation, then Google Reader still can't be beat,
  • but if you want to pick the very best from the many feeds you have, share items with friends and find new sources for news, Feedly is a compelling option.
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Plurk Vs Twitter - 5 Features That Will Make You Want To Switch - 0 views

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Plurk features tips conversation commenting sharing

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  • Plurk is a Twitter clone that offers a wealth of features.
  • @User Reply
  • croll over the user comment you wish to reply to and a little menu will appear to the right. Click on the little speech bubble with the red cross to insert the @user code into your responses.
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  • Like Conversations
  • Users can reply to each message and rather than being lost within chronicle updates,
  • replies are kept together within a threaded conversation.
  • can be viewed by category, i.e. all plurks, my plurks, private, and responded.
  • pdates of plurks that were either yours, private, or ones that you had responded to
  • can also like a conversation and subsequently follow its replies.
  • Users can now search conversations and view the hottest links, most plurked videos, and Plurk trends by location and time frame (daily or hourly)
  • Unfortunately, locations are limited to Indonesia, China, Philippines, and Global.
  • improved service. You can upload a photo or – and that’s new – take it straight from your webcam
  • could previously upload and add pictures.
  • With the “Daily Photo” Plurk is setting the stage for microphotoblogging.
  • Developers will love to hear that Plurk has recently released its API platform.
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Zoundry Raven vs Live Writer: Fight! « Scott's Windows Live Ramblings - 0 views

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features guide comparison blogging blog client Windows Live Writer Zoundry Raven

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  • in Live Writer, if you omit the http:// from your blog address, it will add that for you, ZR doesn’t. ZR also detects this blog incorrectly as being “Wordpress (ver 2.1 or ealier [sic])” whereas this blog is actually Wordpress 2.9.2, so almost there, but not quite.
  • Live Writer also downloads the blog’s theme so that you can edit your post as it would appear in your blog (ZR offers this, but in a slightly different way, see later).
  • there is a difference in how much is offered to each blog. Live Writer pips this due to the extra XHTML, Right To Left support, plug-in support, turning on script and embedding support
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  • Live Writer, it downloads the blog’s theme automatically and offers this as default, so straight away as soon as you start writing your blog post, you’re already looking at the style your blog has:
  • ive Writer’s theme detection has, since the very beginning, been very good at grabbing the theme and formatting it [almost] perfectly within the editor window.
  • where things start to fall down for ZR, when it started to get my theme it ultimately failed with an error:
  • the big difference comes in and swings this more towards Live Writer. As noted above with the themes, Live Writer lets you actually write your blog post as if you were writing in your actual blog, this means you can get the layout just how you want it.
  • ZR does offer WYSIWYG editing, it’s not quite up to that same standard of “cool.”
  • One thing that ZR does have for post editing that has been requested for Live Writer is tabbed support.
  • both editors let you insert images into your blog post and arrange the post where you want them to go, you can create thumbnails of the images.
  • However, Live Writer does come into its own when it comes to editing the image. ZR offers your basic properties of an image, adding alt tags, etc:
  • although at least ZR will let you [in a roundabout way] edit the name of a pasted image, rather than just having Imagex.png. You also can’t insert a web image easily in ZR, although for Wave 3 on Windows 7, neither can Live Writer, not without a plug-in.
  • Live Writer on the other hand has a multitude of different things you can do with the image:
  • crop the image, rotate, tilt, add effects, etc.
  • plug-in architecture in Live Writer for 3rd party developers to write enhancements for it, adding further functionality so that you can do a whole multitude of things. This just simply doesn’t exist in ZR.
  • With ZR, even having done added a blog template, it still doesn’t actually let you write your blog post using that theme, it only lets you preview it using that theme:
  • Another nice feature that ZR has over Live Writer (although quite why this isn’t in Live Writer is beyond me) is search and replace!
  • , there is already one feature that rocks for Live Writer, and that is the split post feature.
  • insert a split into your post, it means anything above it will appear on your front page, and everything else will appear once you’ve gone to the full article.
  • providers are now supporting it (wordpress, Community Server, blogger, to name a few).
  • Save as draft
  • acking in ZR,
  • Through its plug-in architecture, developers have been able to add extra functionality to Live Writer, like Flickr support, ImageShack (of sorts), uploading non image files, and various other services.
  • ZR, however, does this out the box, this is quite cool, especially if you want to keep all your images (blog or otherwise) in one central place, rather than split across different services.
  • Live Writer offers video support for YouTube, both the browsing, and uploading, of videos, right from within Live Writer
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RSS Reader Reviews - Feedly - 0 views

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  • Feedly takes your boring RSS reader and gives it a very shiny magazine like look.
  • several different viewing options that you can choose form – Magazine, Overview, Summery, Picture grid etc.
  • But with Feedly and its social integration with twitter, friendfeed & Google Reader – it is more intelligent to understand what is hot and what is not
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  • Based on your previous reading pattern, it sorts of guesses your favourite feeds that you can’t get enough of.
  • best part about Feedly is the way it organizes and displays your feed. Reading your feeds inside feedly is genuinely pleasing and takes very little effort compared to any other web-based or desktop based RSS reader that are out there.
  • hen you are browsing a page or searching for something on a search engine like Google, it looks at your keyword and pulls up the recent stories about those topics from your feeds and nicely overlays a list of stories at the bottom of your screen.
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Feedly - A New Firefox Start Page Addon You Can't Afford To Miss - 0 views

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  • Feedly – A New Firefox Start Page Addon You Can’t Afford To Miss
  • can load the Feedly start page by clicking on the Feedly icon on the toolbar.
  • asks you if you want to synchronize with your Google Reader, Twitter, FriendFeed and other web 2.0 accounts
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  • If you ask Feedly to connect with Google Reader or Bloglines, it will then load a copy of your OPML file that contains a list of RSS feeds you read from there – you need not essentially subscribe to every one of them manually on Feedly.
  • cover page lists new and unread items from your subscribed blogs
  • page looks like a magazine cover. Fancy stuff to love.
  • another tab called What’s New that lists items based on your reading patterns. Your Google Reader contacts and their recommendations are available from here too, and they rank higher on this page.
  • preview button you can click and the web page of that item opens in a page in popup,
  • To mark an item for reading later, click ‘Save for Later’. To share an item, click ‘Recommend’. You can also click on the ‘Annotate’ link to quote an item and share it on Google Reader, NewsGator online, etc.
  • search bar on top that lets you search and find articles from sites that you’ve favourited.
  • cool view of what’s new on your reading list. Articles appear and vanish one by one and you can click on the title to read/save it for later.
  • screensaver link on the top right
  • There’s a Feedly content API as well. What that means is that developers can easily build on top of the tool and make plenty of tools
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About Slideshare, overview of features - 0 views

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SlideShare overview features

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  • SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs.
  • a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content
  • LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter.
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  • Some of the things you can do on SlideShare
  • Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
  • Share slideshows publicly or privately.
  • Synch audio to your slides
  • Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests.
  • Download the original file
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Publisha - Take a tour - 0 views

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features blogging Publisha

shared by LeisHowI on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Publisha creates a website for you
  • Publish your articles and keep archives within Facebook, as a tab from your fan page
  • or you can use your own domain name free of charge
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  • Publisha creates your RSS feed so your readers never miss an article.
  • Using our network of sites, our publications can advertise each other to interested readers. It grows your readership automatically.
  • Soon we’ll automatically publish to your Twitter account to tell the world when you have new articles available.
  • resent your content to search engines in the most useful way to make sure your digital publication is easily found.
  • mport existing articles with RSS Already online? Just enter your blog or website RSS feed and Publisha will import your latest articles for you.
  • save you time and hassle by keeping all your multi-platform content in one place.
  • Choose where to publish each article: it’s as easy as flipping a switch.
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