Tag: Internet

Using Flickr

Aside Nick Momrik2 Comments

Over the past two days I’ve uploaded 572 photos to my new Flickr account. I didn’t do any compression of the files when uploading, but still only managed to use 69% of my upload capacity for this month. I’m really impressed by the service that Flickr offers. For more information and links to all of […]

A Service to Replace all Others

Nick Momrik1 Comment

Yesterday I discussed my struggles to find a service for links and feeds. Today I found one. My Yahoo!

Not only can I store all of my links/bookmarks and keep track of feeds, but there’s a ton of other information. In your My Yahoo! account you can create several different pages. I’ve created a total of four pages so far. My first page is called Main and has just a ton of information. In the left column I have all of my bookmarks broken down into categories. The second column starts of with my Yahoo! calendar which I also started to use today. It’s a great service for birthday reminders, appointments, and scheduling in general. Below the calendar I have a scoreboard of my favorite pro and college teams. Under the scoreboard I have content modules for Weather, Package Tracker, Yellow Pages, Maps, and Hot Jobs. Finally, a wide column along the right starts off with feeds for ESPN and CNet News. Below those feeds are TV listings for my 6 main channels, movie showtimes in the area, and the white pages.

In addition to this main page I have three other My Yahoo! pages that are all accessed by the click of a button. Page 2, titled Personal Blogs, and page 3, titled Poker Blogs, both containing feeds in their respective categories. The 4th and final page is Web Tools, which contains feeds for sites such as the WordPress development blog and Weblog Tools Collection.

I set out looking for a service to manage bookmarks and feeds, but I found so much more. My Yahoo! is a great service. Beat that Google!

Pluck This

Nick Momrik3 Comments

I justed tested out Pluck, a service which manages your links and feeds. They have a really nice piece of software that integrates with IE for reading feeds and managing everything, but it’s only for IE. Their web interface blows. Pluck shows promise, but until they can come up with something for Firefox, I don’t see them moving forward. Anyone know of a good online service to manage both bookmarks and feeds?

I want to easily be able to add/delete/update/organize my list of links and feeds. The service must be able to distinguish an updated feed from an old one. It needs to be free. I need to be able to set up a page with this service to be the home page in my browsers at multiple locations and also be able to access it from any Internet connection.

I’ve been using MyBookmarks for my links and Bloglines for my feeds, but I shouldn’t have to use multiple services for things that are so similar. For some reason I can’t access Bloglines from work, so my two service solution doesn’t even work.

Even if it’s something I can install on my own server that interacts with MySQL that would work too. In fact, it might be better because then I don’t have to worry about a service going down. If it’s down, it’s my problem.

All I know is I need something!