Paul Jacobson

Category: Useful stuff

  • Customisable news feed on Facebook

    I was listening to net@nite yesterday and Amber commented that some of her Facebook friends have remarked how her friend additions are crowding out all the other items in their news feeds. Well, it turns out Facebook has a way to adjust how much of which items you receive from your friends in your news…

  • Introducing Google’s Presently

    Google is going to launch a presentation web app (which I believe is going to be called “Presently”) to complement its existing pseudo-Office offering in the form of Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It announced the new addition to its Web-based productivity apps on the Google blog yesterday in a post titled “We’re expecting” (love the…

  • Amatomu’s new tracking tools

    I’ve been meaning to publish this post for about a week now. There have been some pretty exciting developments on Amatomu in the last week or two. Vincent and Matthew have really added some visually appealing graphics to help users get a better idea of how their blog is doing and what is going on…

  • You’ve seen Twitter, now meet Jaiku

    This is a repost from Wired Gecko where this post first appeared. Leo Laporte, the podcaster of note over at the TWiT network, has announced that he is leaving Twitter for Jaiku after being responsible, to a large degree, for much of Twitter’s popularity after he discussed Twitter shortly before SXSW a little while ago…

  • Firefox stepping on Flock’s toes?

    I see that Mozilla is testing a new social networking product called The Coop which will integrate more social networking into Firefox: Enter “The Coop”, a Mozilla Labs project to experiment with adding social tools to the web browser. We want to create a fun and easy way to share links with your friends, and…

  • Get em while they’re hot!

    Amatomu has cool looking badges that you can stick on your blog so get them while they’re hot. There is a variety of colours available to match your blog’s theme. So head on over to the Amatomu badge page and pick your badge today … Technorati Tags:amatomu, badge, colours

  • BT does Enterprise 2.0

    BT has launched an Enterprise 2.0 service called BT Tradespace which is aimed at SMEs: BT Tradespace provides small businesses with simple online publishing tools that allow you to quickly and easily create and post content to the web. Each BT Tradespace member’s page includes blogs, photos, podcasts, contact information, maps, virtual business card, and…

  • Mail & Guardian’s new daily podcast

    Mail & Guardian has just launched a new daily podcast called the Lunchtime News Wrap. So what is this podcast all about: The M&G Online provides a short midday podcast of the main news stories of the day, Monday to Friday, covering local, international, business, sport and Africa news. The episodes are pretty short (around…