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Manage your RSS feeds

June 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment

www.feedego.com

Web 2.0 may be all about what your friends like and networking and feeding off of other people’s tastes, but sometimes it’s just good to be you, to do what you like and not have to worry about friends or family.

Feedego isn’t about sharing your secrets with the world or posting embarrassing pictures about you. Rather, Feedego, as it’s names suggests, caters to you the loyal customer. Use Feedego to find new feeds based on your likes and dislikes.

The process is simple. Use your Gmail name to log in or register to get an account. Then type in some keywords of things you like and things you hate. A series of slider bars lets you tell how much you like or dislike something. With this knowledge in hand, Feedego will suggest articles that you might find interesting. It also color codes articles to signal whether you’ll love it (green) or most likely hate it (red). Best of all, it’s free.

We’ve not had time to properly test this but it sounds like a good idea so why not give it a go. We’re going to give it two stars at the moment but we may come back and update this once we’ve had a proper trial.

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Plan your next walk or run

June 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment

www.walkjogrun.net

This is definetly a site for all those fitness fanatics who want to know how far they have travelled when they go for a quick run or a walk.

Walkjogrun uses google maps / earth to plan a route for your run as well as see other routes that have been planned by people in your area.

The best way to use the site is first of all take a look at the routes that other people have planned and then decide how far you want to go and if any of the routes are similar to the ones you want to use. You can then set your start point and navigate around to set check points for the route.

Although the site is a little slow and not that intuitive it is a great way to plan an excercise campaign and gives you a much better idea of how you are doing over a period of time if you time yourself.

We have rated this site as two star because as yet there is very little community interaction and it’s not that easy to use at first.

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Keep up with your business contacts

June 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment

www.linkedin.com

Everyone talks about social networking these days so it’s not surprising that there is a social network for business people. There are a few sites out there for this sort of thing but I have to say that the real winner has to be Linkedin.

With Linkedin the idea is really simple, upload your address book into the system (It’s a great backup tool as well) and it will automatically find people using Linkedin who you have an email for. Other functions include the ability to search for people – either by name or the company they work for and joining groups of business people who have the same interests (e.g web, technology, investments, regions etc)

The premium service costs money and allows you to see everyones details before requesting that they join your network but the basic free service is really good anyway – I don’t see the need for it at this time.

Overall we have to rate the site four stars – it’s easy to use, it’s useful and what’s more it’s free.

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Free Mobile Phone Back Up

June 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment

www.mobyko.com

If you are anything like me and the rest of the team here we are always changing mobile phones. Every time I do I have to go through the task of remembering to copy numbers from my phone to SIM card and then from the SIM to the phone and vice versa and invariably I loose a few numbers. Being too lazy to connect the phone to my computer (and to be honest already having too many gadgets attached!!) I really wanted a simple way to do this.

Mobyko basically takes this pain away and I’ve got to say I am a great fan.

I first came across the site in 2006 and to be honest it was a bit clunky and the technology sort of worked but not very well. Since then the guys have done a fantastic job.

What you need to do

  • Visit the site
  • Sign up
  • Follow the instructions

That’s it really – within a few minutes you receive a text with relevant connection software and you then back up your numbers and anything else you want. I personally don’t use all the features but if your life is in your phone get on this site quickly. What’s more it’s FREE.

Hopefully the guys at Mobyko will give us a few words in the future to add to the site to give you the full low down on the solution.

This is definetly a Four Star site.

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