April 26th, 2010 by Social Guy

you’re busy with college courses, work, family and a personal life, it can be hard to keep up with the latest news in your field of expertise. These blogs can help make it a little easier, however, providing easily accessible knowledge about a wide range of engineering specialties. Add a few to your RSS feed and you’ll stay in the know, no matter how busy your life might get.
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August 4th, 2009 by Social Guy

Nononina launches a new version of their popular Alltop website that enhances reading RSS feeds on iPhones and Blackberrys. Using Alltop, people can now create a personalized collection of RSS feeds, determine their order, and then display them on their phones in a new, easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate format.
Here’s how it works :
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April 22nd, 2009 by Social Guy

These days, information is only as good as the time and place it’s received. With the current popularity of micro-blogging – how are regular sites and blogs supposed to compete?
Trackle is a new company that offers all kinds of tracking services on the Web – think of it like Google alerts for everything, including very personalized stuff that are time-consuming to track down on your own.
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December 13th, 2008 by Social Guy

Tatango rolled out a new beta feature ‘RSS Syndication’ that I think is perfect for bloggers. This new feature allows users to send an automated text summary of their latest post to all members of their Tatango group.
The text message alert will start off with the first sentence of the post followed by a link to the post, aimed at increasing blog traffic.
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October 31st, 2008 by Social Guy

AOL redesigns homepage to allow consumers more customization and access to 3rd party content from one location; continues strategy to open AOL.com to 3rd party content and services. Brand new homepage will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social networking sites. This follows the move last month to provide access to multiple e-mail services from the AOL.
The new social networking feature allows consumers to post status updates to multiple social networks at once, and provides profile activity information, including new friend requests, status updates and mail notifications from services such as AIM, Bebo, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and other third-party sites.
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