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5 Reasons Why I Broke Up With Google Reader And Now Using Feedly

5 Reasons Why I Broke Up With Google Reader And Now Using Feedly

Google surprised many of us with the news that they would be shutting down Google Reader as of July 1, 2013. This was not welcome news because many folks, including me, consume most of their blog content with an RSS aggregator. Google Reader is simple and easy-use.

I relied heavily on Google Reader to search out the blogosphere for useful content to share across my social networks and with my community.

So what now?

Have you discovered Feedly?

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March 15, 2013 Filed Under: Community Tagged With: google, internet, tools

Why I Chose An Android Tablet Over An iPad

Why I Chose An Android Tablet Over An iPad

There is so much buzz today about tablets. There are tablets running Android, iOS and now Windows 8. Seems like every company under the sun is getting into this expanding marketplace.

They now come in different sizes, colors and everything else in between. With all these choices what tablet makes sense?

I put in some serious hours reading through reviews, going into stores such as Best Buy to test the options out there and talked with many folks that blazed the trail and purchased one before me. I immediately removed Microsoft’s Windows 8 from my list! Honestly, I simply do not like the user interface and its not that intuitive!

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January 15, 2013 Filed Under: Community Tagged With: google, internet, life, social, tools

TED Takes on SOPA: Why it Would Create a “Consumption-Only Internet”

Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible–with deep social and political implications.

What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

January 19, 2012 Filed Under: Community Tagged With: google, internet, social, video

What is in your filter bubble?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOE1HFEL8XA

Check out this video that attempts to reveal what Facebook and Google are hiding from world.

What are your thoughts?

December 31, 2011 Filed Under: Community Tagged With: google, life, social, video

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