Posts Tagged ‘Google Reader’

The latest attempt to sort through the clutter of available online news content is version 2.0 of News360, an app for the iPad, the iPhone, the BlackBerry PlayBook, Windows Phone and Android devices, and the Web that uses semantic analysis to analyze users’ activity on social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, and Evernote to select relevant news.

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In case you’re still using Google Reader to get your daily dose of RSS news from sites you monitor, you might be interested to try out Google Reader Play. It’s Google’s latest offering that aims to take the Google Reader interface into a new level. Something innovative and yet can be counter-productive.

Google Reader Play gives you the most recommended news items of the day. These are culled from various news items that were identified using the technology Google employs with Google Reader’s Recommended Items. It’s basically random selection, so you’ll never know what will be displayed next. Read more

Tonight I was working on a presentation that I’ll be making in a couple weeks. In the process of developing the presentation I went seeking for inspiration and went directly to Ted.com where I’ve found some of the best presentation videos on the web. One video that I stumbled upon was Alisa Miller who shares information about our distorted view of the world.
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