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Lazyfeed

Internet, Review

Couple days without checking feed reader 10 times in a day… And I have 853 unread RSS-items! Great…

Rss is good technology and I like it, but it is way too easy to subscribe to many feeds and slowly changing the feed reader from useful software to flooding inbox with couple hundred unread news.

If you have same kind of problems try Lazyfeed. It is a feed reader that is designed to be simple and easy way to read feeds without wasting time managing feeds.

Unlike normal feed readers, you can’t subscribe to feeds regular feeds. You can subscribe to keywords and then lazyfeed will fetch posts from that are related and then show them to you in realtime.

There is one feature that I like LOT: Mr Lazy. Mr Lazy appears randomly and asks question based on other keywords added to list. Example when I had Linux keyword, Bob asked what is my favorite distro and then he added it to my playlist! Great way to recommend keywords that I may like.

Lazyfeed is good for random reading and just monitoring some stuf without getting massive unread numbers. It is also easy to subscribe to lots of topics without messing up the usability.

Only problem with lazyfeed is change to miss somethig useful. But I totally recommend to try it!

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Google Wave

Internet

So… When the Google Wave was first time announced I registered myself for invite. And I got the invite couple days ago. (I have used all of my invites, so don’t bother asking for them) But I couldn’t use wave until now, because nobody of my friends had Google Wave.

But today one of my invites that I send was activated and I could test the Google Wave. The real time typing/editing is awesome. No more waiting for reply, conversation is much more faster and flexible.

I believe that Google Wave is not going to kill email. But it will definitely going to make co-working easier. For project management/brainstorming Google Wave could be awesome.

As this is Beta/Preview of the Wave, all of the features that I would like to see isn’t at Wave yet. Example extension/settings stuff is missing. I hope that the system allows me to integrate email, Twitter and Google Reader to Wave.

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Ego app

Applications, Web developing, iPod touch/iPhone apps

Ego is simple app for iPhone/iPod touch that displays many stats in one simple view. Ego supports couple of web stats systems. Google analytics is maybe the most popular stats tracking tool, so it is included. But Ego also supports Squarespace, Mint, Google pagerank, Feedburner and Twitter.

Configuring application is fast and simple. Application is mostly just beautiful list of all the stats. If you have multitiple websites, Ego is perfect way to check all the sites once.

I would like to have some more stats, like graphs and pie charts, but still this application is worth of the 1.5€

If you are addicted to stats I recommend to try this app.

To see this app in action, go to Ego app’s homepage. There is nice video of the app.

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Adsense, quick way to get easy money?

Internet, Web developing

No, its not easy or quick way to get money. You get almost nothing with small or medium blog. You may get some money if you have website with 50k unique visitors everyday, but with smaller blogs, its just wasting time and making website look ugly.

Biggest thing that I hate on adsense is that Google can’t tell how much I can get, like 0.1€ per click.

Another problem with these ads is that many users like to filter then(Thats totally ok, I do it also). And another half of peopl don’t click ads because they know that it is a ad.

Don’t waste your time unless you have lot’s of visitors on your website.

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Analytics lite iphone/ipod touch app

Applications, Internet, Web developing, iPod touch/iPhone apps

Analytics lite is great application for iPhone/iPod touch. With it you can check latest stats of google analytics.

Interface is clean and application is easy to use. There is small lag when changing site, bit that’s just a minor problem.

Best thing is that this app is totally free. There is small add banner, but it’s not a big deal.

If you use analytics you must try this app.

(this blog post is created using wordpress iPod touch application)

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