Friday, August 3, 2007

Das unbegrenzte Web (The unlimited Web)

As a member of the lucky generation which watched the internet be born and follow its evolution through time, I can say I am amazed with the tools that appear daily to gather and organize information of all sorts. I can hardly keep track of them, and I have a lot of time to do that lately, so I decided to share some of my most precious findings with you.

First of all, I updated this blog structure to include, in the right, links to web albums of my friends (currently only mine, Jadwiga's and Carlos') and a list of selected news that I find especially interesting during my surfing, to add up to the content I add here. Now on to the tools:

Google Reader - The most amazing thing I discovered in the last days. It aggregates news as if they were e-mails being received by you. Why surf after news if they come to you automatically? There is no better way to read, organize and share content as this tool. I am flabbergasted.

Picasa Web Albums - Integrates the great Picasa software from Google with the internet, working seamlessly with Blogger (where this blog is hosted) and other important tools.

iGoogle - Make your start page a portal with all the services you like the most, powered by the God Google. If you are a user, keep track of birthdays with the Orkut integration, show up the last feeds from the Reader or show random pictures from Picasa to make your days brighter.

Google Calendar - The best online calendar I've seen so far in the internet. Not only it's very easy to use and flexible, but also allows calendar sharing, invitations and integrates perfectly with iGoogle.

Expensr - Keep track of your expenses online! Unfortunately not as good as it could be and fails to integrate with the previously mentioned tools. Hopefully just a matter of time before the ultimate web service for finances show up. Until then, Expensr is enough.

Gubb.net - If you are insanely organized as me, you will like this to-do list organizer. I personally find it very useful to have my tasks accessible from anywhere in such a nice interface.

Last.fm - The excellent service that finds music you like, creates radios and shares all sorts of profiles to help you to never be in silence in your life.

Digg - My favorite news delivery service. Paired up with Reader, this website brings me the best of the web without any efforts. Truly a classic.

YouTube - This doesn't even need to be here, because everyone knows it. It's a phenomenon that can make you waste more time than you spent alive. Integrate it with Reader and Blogger and you have instant video sharing.

Internet services keep multiplying. Do you have any recommendations? Do you want to be part of the links or my feeds in the Reader? Post it in the comments!

God bless the Internet.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Carlos said...

Big fat goat, try out Flock - I think you'll love it. It's a Firefox based browser packed with news feed reader, online bookmark (aka del.icio.us), blogs, media sharing (youtube, flickr...) - well, a browser for the brave new Internet.

And by the way, in every page of Flickr you get a link to a relevant feed of the content you're looking at the moment. So add my feeds to your reader and be happy :-)

August 6, 2007 1:08 AM  
Anonymous Carlos said...

Ah, esqueci, tem um site cahamdo Newsvine também, que agrega notícias - algo como o digg, mas só pra notícias.

E esqueceste do deli.cio.us, o mais famoso site de bookmark "social". Tem também o concorrente Ma.gnolia.com.

E o site do Flock é, é claro, http://flock.com

August 6, 2007 2:09 AM  

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