Nostrame.com 2.0

Yet another version of the website -- nostrame 2.0.You like?


Along with many others, color is a big consideration.

Do you twitter?

This cartoon plays out a few "micro-blogging," otherwise know as twitter'ing, scenarios. "Will Twitter fly, or flame out like Friendster?"

Del.icio.us versus Foxmarks

I'm back to Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks from PC to PC... or PC to Mac, since we have one of those in the household now. I tried del.ious.us for a few weeks, but just never got into it. I don't like organizing my bookmarks by tags. Just way too messy. I understanding that tagging seems to be where things are moving in terms of the "social web," but it just doesn't work for my bookmarks. There end up being too many tags and I need more structure in order to find my more frequently used bookmarks for work. I'm sure I could have explored del.ious.us some more, but don't really have the time, plus Foxmarks was working just fine for me.

Foxmarks it is.

Web Portals and Web 2.0

Well, it's been quite a while since I've posted to this 'dang quesadilla!' -- ahhh, I mean, blog. Lots of travelitng for the job, and no inspiration to document my life's journeys.

As you can tell by the title of this post, I want to jot down where I'm at in the world of Web 2.0 - i.e. my favorite portal and mail client. So, for the web portal (aka. feed reader and holder of the ever popular Web 2.0 widgets) I'm *back* with Netvibes. I went to Google's portal for a while, but it was just OK. After using the Google *portal* and the Google Reader and I had a big problem with each of them.

First - Google portal. I do not like , and can't handle, how it doesn't integrate the Google Reader more into the interface. You can have a widget that displays your Google Reader content, but I want an entire tab dedicated to it. Basically, I want the portal to be a RSS reader with the ability to add widgets. I mean, I could just use a Google portal tab as a dedicated RSS reader, adding content, but then I don't have the ability to export that into an OPML file? What?! That's not good. The other piece of this problem is when I had Firefox automatically add a feed to my reader of choice. When my reader of choice was set to Google, the google website would prompt me to add to Google or Google Reader. Nah, that ain't cool - in fact - there was absolutely no "YO!" factor there... at all! The other problem is with the Google Reader - don't like the interface. You can either view your feeds by Expanded or List view. Neither of them do it for me, I want to be able to click on the posts on the left and see the contact for that post only on the right. Simple.

The one thing I DO like with the Google Reader is how you can "star" posts and others can subscribe to those posts via an RSS feed. I think it's cool to be able to subscribe to a feed of "what someone's reading," although there are plenty of other widgets out there that do something similar. I prefer to just bookmark, which I sync with Foxmarks, plus I need to get into del.ious.us to handle my bookmarks (which I think it does). I just died of boredom. Done.... on to the email client now.

Email. I'm sold on GMail. Love the threaded email view - although it was horrible when I accessed my gmail from the Ubuntu mail client. My sent mails were showing up in my inbox. So, basically, the threaded emails were being split apart in the POP3 client and not being rolled up into one thread or conversation. I need to explore this some more. The new Yahoo Beta was a little too heavy. Why try and replicate the desktop client experience when we're on the web? Just wasn't fast enough for me, especially logging in. The other big thing is POP3 access to and from GMail.

The winners, Netvibes and Gmail.

OK - more to come on Netvibes and, perhaps, the end of my website!?!?