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Institutional websites

Posted on March 13, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, google, rss, universities, web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , , |

Like Brian Kelly, I came across the University of Southampton’s “iSoton” website via Lorcan Dempsey’s blog posting.
Having had a look at iSoton, I wondered why an organisation would choose to create such a site rather than make something almost identical within a PageFlakes ‘page’ or within an iGoogle ‘tab’ for example (for free)? People could [...]

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Google Reader

Posted on June 28, 2007. Filed under: feed aggregator, google, rss, technology, web 2.0 |

Within Google Reader it is possible to ’star’ your favourite items and to then view your list of starred items; it is also possible to add tags to items and then browse them. Unfortunately it is not possible to search for items within Google Reader. So that item that you had thought to [...]

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Blastfeed

Posted on June 27, 2007. Filed under: feed aggregator, google, information overload, rss, web 2.0 |

This site http://www.blastfeed.com/ helps to reduce information overload - you can select your RSS feeds, define what you want to get from them (using keywords) and then get the filtered results via email, IM or RSS.  I currently use Google Reader to aggregate my RSS feeds.  I would love to have fewer posts to trawl [...]

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